PHIL ROBERTSON IS WRONG ABOUT "ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN" MARRIAGE

    Phil Robertson is not alone in his assertion that the Bible teaches “one man and one woman marriage. I too used to have the same indoctrinated, anti-polygamy position held by most orthodox Christians until I started reading the Bible for what it says instead of what some equally indoctrinated minister or fellow Christian said it says. Many Christians, in an effort to provide evidentiary support for their monogamy-only assertion, with it's juxtaposed position that polygamy is a sin, cite Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:4 - 6, and Mark 10:6 - 8 as justification for that belief. But in citing those scriptures they're conflating a description of what happens when a man leaves his parents with a non-existent divine limitation on how many wives a man can cleave to or become “one flesh” with. This conflation is analogous to saying, "A man will abandon his bicycle when he's old enough and instead drive his car." Most people would read that and not assume that a man would only ever own and drive ONE car, yet that fallacious assumption of numerical limitation is used by Christians when they read the aforementioned, conveniently linked scriptures.

    Yet the conflation and unsubstantiated extrapolation of a description of a right of passage with a commandment for monogamy still persists among Christians. They ignore the context of the rest of the Bible; wherein, polygamy is profligate with no recorded condemnation from God nor any prohibition against it in the Levitical Law nor by Christ himself. For example, if God was dead-set against polygamy, why when the prophet Nathan accosted King David as recorded in 2 Samuel 12: 1 -14, did he not point his bony finger at him and also condemn him for his multiple wives and hordes of concubines? Nathan ONLY condemned him for taking another man's wife and murdering her husband. The Bible is rife with it's patriarchs having multiple wives and there is no recorded condemnation for this practice from God even though there was plenty of opportunity for him to do so personally (Genesis 26:2 among others) or through his prophets as was the case with the prophet Nathan.

    Nonetheless, some Christians will cite Deuteronomy 17:17 as God's command that marriage be monogamous. But this text clearly is a restriction placed on kings only, which depending on the translation you read and the conspicuous failure of Nathan to condemn David for his multiple wives, may still allow more than one wife for a king. If it were understood in "The Law" that multiple wives were not permitted for EVERY man then, logically, there would have been no need for God to articulate a specific restriction for the number of wives for kings; therefore, If anything, Deuteronomy 17:17 is further proof of no scriptural prohibition against polygamy.

Interestingly, the same Christians that cite Deuteronomy 17:17, conveniently ignore Deuteronomy 25: 5; wherein, God explicitly endorsed polygamy when a woman is widowed:

"If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her."

There are no disqualifying parameters set for in this passage that excludes a brother who already has a wife. 

Even the apostle Paul, did not condemn polygamy as is implied in 1 Timothy 3:2:

"..If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife,..."

Clearly anyone who was not to be an overseer could be married to more than one woman.

    We now live in a culture were it seems that most men are nothing more than irresponsible, self-centered boys in a man's body. Their main focus is on video games, the acquisition of material possessions and non-committal, non-reproductive sex. These perpetually adolescent "men" are increasingly surrounded by women who are also self-absorbed, career-centered, man-hating fanatics. "Women" indoctrinated by academia and the media in anti-family, anti-children and anti-man, radical feminism. Given this, maybe it's time for modern American culture and orthodox Christians to embrace polygamy. Why? Because there are, thanks to our “party-hardy” culture of perpetual adolescence, far fewer good men than in the past. Good men who make a good livelihood and who have the maturity necessary for manifesting the sacrificial character necessary for being a good husband and a good father. These rare good men may be willing to meet the desires of the remaining good women. Good women who reject radical feminism and are unable to find a suitable family-oriented mate, among the hordes of post-acne, post-teens teenagers masquerading as men. Good women who want to be committed to one good man and have children by that man. Good women who would consider it a win-win situation to share that rare good man with other women; other women who share her desire to have a good, family oriented man father their children.