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Polygamy is illegal and we should enforce the law. Polygamy, while condoned in the Bible is not God's best for a marriage or for a society. Polygamy in the Bible is an instance where culture crept into the Bible.

It is sad to see what the polygamists are doing to their young 13 year old daughters when they give them to older men (40 to 50 years old) in marriage and let the older men rape them while at the same time they run their male children out of the polygamist camps so they won't be competition for the older perverted men who are running the polygamist camps.

It is sad when men conjure up a religion to justify their perverted desires. American needs to save these chidren from these perverted men. American needs to shut down all the polygamist camps that keep all these young girls in virtual prisoon where they are told they will go to hell and be disowned if they don't go along with what their perverted parents insist they do.

A reader says ... Regarding Paul's teaching that elders should be the husbands of one wife (or be a one woman man), an additional possibility is that Paul may have been refuting the old tradition that prominent men have more wives than others.  Yet even that aspect would not totally disallow polygamy.

It is quite obvious that if God intended polygamy to be the norm for all, He would have designed it so that many more women are born than men.  Polygamy thus obviously should be considered the exception rather than the norm. Yet their are exceptions in life.

Considering some exceptions should the husband who has a brain dead wife, or a wife who is controlled by a cult and very incompatible, receive greater respect because of divorcing her before taking another, than if he was willing to keep and care for her (if she did not want the divorce) although taking another wife who was likeminded?  In that situation, should the law rigidly demand a husband to divorce his first wife before taking another?

A reader says ... Concerning the issue of elders in Israel having numerous wives, in ancient Israel God ordered that the enemy males of rebellious nations should be slain, but not the women, which contributed to an abundance of women in their society as well as to much potential for polygamy (Deu 20:10-17, 21:10-13).  God speaking to David concerning his wives said, "And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.  (2 Sam 12:8).

Concerning the unusual situation of polygamy (which yet was not at all unusual in old times), the main New Testament Scriptures that are understood as opposing polygamy are Scriptures which are focused on elders.  According to the Greek these Scriptures demand that elders are a "one woman man" (1 Tim 3:2&12, Tit 1:6).  Another expression quite similar to the expression "a one woman man" would be "a one job man " which term would mean a steady and dependable man who don't jump from job to job.  Yet that term would not need to mean the man had only one job in his life time, or need to mean he never held down two part time jobs at the same time.  Paul obviously did not want men to be chosen as elders who were unfaithful to and changing wives.  Some Biblical translations of Paul's requirements of elders, simply demand men that are faithful in marriage, yet other Biblical translations oppositely demand men who have only had one wife in their life time, and thus these translations even disallow remarriage for elders if their mate dies.  What a difference in those translations!

A reader says ... Where in Gods word is this allowed? Muslims.. yes, Mormons yes.. Pagans.. Yes, Christians and Jews... NO! maybe one of the old Jewish kings, but Gods word doesn't allow polygamy!