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Post by nancysharp on Mar 24, 2022 6:19:24 GMT
I'm not here to debate whether polygamy should be legal-I'm here to talk about whether it's a sin and does it express true love?
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Mar 24, 2022 16:02:35 GMT
I think that the virtue of justice is not brought into discussion on sexuality and sexual behaviour to the extent that it should. The foundation of the sexual relationship within the context of marriage is love, but it also requires justice - it's about the giving of oneself and the acceptance of the other. This cannot happen without the element of justice. To engage in the sexual act outside and without the intention of marriage is unjust because it is taken advantage of an emotional weakness in the other party without the commitment to stand by them through thick and thin; to commit adultery, to have sex while married to someone else is unjust to your spouse, possibly your children (if you have any) and also to your paramour, because you are not in a position to completely give yourself to her/him as justice requires. And if you marry two spouses with whom you live, you are not able to give yourself wholly to either, nor equally to both. And there is also a problem if you have children with both - how they are treated. Yet, even in the absence of children, yes, polygamy is a sin and though tolerated in the Old Testament, was not permitted when Our Lord elevated matrimony to being a sacrament. And I think the basis for this is justice, it's based on marriage depending on the freedom to wholly give yourself to one person and to completely accept that person. When there is someone else, other spouse, lover, or even someone with whom you have a close relationship which is not sexual (this, for example, may be a parent you are very close to), this freedom is compromised. That is why I believe polygamy is a sin.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Sept 12, 2022 21:30:02 GMT
I am surprised the question is even put. But I am not going to laugh as there is a campaign afoot in favour of polygamy and group marriage.
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Sept 20, 2022 19:53:27 GMT
In a word, yes. And it doesn't show what might be called true love. There is no complete giving as marriage requires in polygamy or polyamory.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Oct 28, 2022 16:57:36 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 12, 2022 13:12:07 GMT
There's a certain irony about polygamy being Woke Flavour of the Month, given that it's associated so strongly with male dominance (I remember when the TV series BIG LOVE was on years ago, reading an article by a woman journalist who covered stories about the Mormon breakaway sects which practise polygamy; she said it only works if the man is the boss and the women are all equally subordinate) and socio-economic inequality.
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