<div>Interesting.</div>
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<div>Yes Siarlys, I know I'm supposed to have something more in depth... but I got nada...</div>
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<div>OOooh...</div>
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<div>How does many wives not get labeled as adultery? Wouldn't going after a second wife constitute adultery?<br><br>Lance</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List</b> <<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Whether a man has one wife or a thousand, each marriage is a union<br>between one man and one woman.<br>
<br><br>greenBubble<br><br><br>Subject: [GCFL-discuss] Polygamy<br><br>Here is an interesting twist on the claim that G-d ordained marriage to<br>be the union of one man and one woman:<br><br>I asked an Orthodox rabbi, who is planning to vote yes on a marriage
<br>amendment next week, how it was possible for King David, and King<br>Solomon, to have multiple wives, not even getting into all their<br>additional concubines.<br><br>He responded "Whatever gave you the idea that the Torah bans polygamy?"
<br>(The Torah is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. These<br>books of course contain most of "the Law" which Christians refer to as<br>Old Testament -- although the prophets and other writings expound on it
<br>a<br>good deal.<br><br>Well, I haven't been able to find any such thing. In the absence of such<br>a foundation in the Torah, I'm not sure Jesus ever came down firmly for<br>monogamy over polygamy either. (He said some things about divorce, but
<br>did not specify that a man could not have other wives at the same time).<br>PAUL used language about a man being "the husband of one wife." But<br>where<br>does THAT come from if it was not part of Jewish law?
<br><br>I am told that among Ashkenazi Jews in Europe, polygamy was formally<br>ended (it hardly existed anyway -- Jewish men were too poor to afford a<br>second wife) because French Christians were agitating about Jews being
<br>polygamous. This, however, did not apply to Sephardic Jews, who were<br>living in Muslim caliphates, where polygamy was also acceptable.<br><br>So maybe the Mormons were correct? I prefer monogamy, and none of this<br>
provides any basis for issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples,<br>but<br>the complex possibilities in any such discussion puts simple slogans on<br>billboards and lawn signs to shame.<br><br>Siarlys<br>_______________________________________________
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