No "Bigamy"

The Latter-Day-Saints Texas Polygamy news story (intended to discredit the honorable Mitt Romney who at this time is a possible VP running mate for John McCain?) continues to intrigue people here and there, now and then.

My take thereof follows.

It is lamentable that the allegations of "underaged," "raped," "abused," "minors" "forced" into marriage with older men already having spouses......is deceptively and demonically engrained with the occurrences of simple multiple-wives polygamy.

Obviously, even according to The Bible, incest and rape (i.e.non-consentual sex), abuse (in contrast to due punishment), and [pre-puberty] underaged marriage is prohibited by such Scripture as is located in parts of the Old-Testament Pentateuch (such as Exodus 20-22, Leviticus 18-20, and Deuteronomy 21-24)......plus applicable specific parts of the New Testament (for example: Matthew 5:27-32, Mark 7:14-23, First Corinthians 7:1-36, First Thessalonians 4:1-8, Philemon 1:8-14, and First Peter 3:7).

However, multiple-wives and multiple-concubines polygamy is NOT anti-Biblical in that the Lord NEVER specifically forbid it. Deuteronomy 17:16-17 does state that the king of Israel must not multiply horses, cause people to return to Egypt, multiply wives who turn away his heart, nor great quantities of silver and gold.....most of which Solomon did to the contrary and not merely pertaining to polygamy.

The patriarchs Abram (later named Abraham), Jacob (later named Israel), David, and Solomon had multiple wives without God's expressed disapproval. How they got those wives, what the former marital status of those wives was, whether they previously bore children, and what types of women they were.....is irrelevant to what the point is for this discussion.

Even human but Inspired Saint Paul (speaking for Christ, the Ultimate Biblical Author) only restricted bishops and deacons to monogamy in First Timothy 3:2 and 3:12. Such directives remain true to this day - irregardless of varying and fluctuating opinions and proposals of "legality" debated by sundry media reporters, analysts, commentators, lawyers, and judges.

Should a court case arise against some man accused only of multiple-wife "bigamy" (and at this time elaboration shall not be made regarding non-licensed mutually-consentual common-law permanent marriages not even notarized), the polygamist defendant need not either stand when the courtroom judge enters the courtroom nor address the judge as "Your Honor" - being that injustice has already been committed by legalistic subversives of the judiciary and law enforcement causing an innocent polygamist to enter into court for the improper charge imposed on the clearly guilt-free defendant. If the judge objects to and states disapproval against such in-courtroom response by the defendant, and/or disallows free use of Scripture verses the defendant begins to refer to, silence of the defendant is in order, though consequentially resulting in [another] false charge of "contempt of court" - considered by the sane and reasonable to be persecution against Scriptural righteousness. A follow-up appeal by the defendant to a higher court on the grounds of mistrial is then expected.

What actually and in fact determines legitimate and acceptable definitions of "incest" (involving distant third and fourth cousins, cousins-in-law, step-cousins, etc?), "abuse," "harassment" and "mental anguish," "underaged," and "non-consentually forced" is PRIMARILY under the jurisdiction and authority of the LORD in accord with applicable and pertinent parts of His HOLY BIBLE (as for instance contained in the best of the KJV and RSV versions).

Next, the terms mentioned above are defined by the [polygamist] man and then the associated woman involved - in THAT order.

Lower than that are the evaluations and decisions of and by judges, attorneys, jurors, witnesses, the media, etc.

Again, the Biblically-acceptable phenomena of mutually-consentual, NON-State-licensed (thus non-State-registered) COMMON-LAW marriage or concubinal contracts (written or verbal) will not be dealt with at this time. Nor will accusations of "adultery" nor child-custody situations be discussed for the time being - whether in simple two-person-only State-licensed plus common-law non-licensed plural marriages nor those involving a harem of women belonging to the same husband.

A KJV-concordant display of First Timothy 5:14 is helpful here, which is:

I therefore want younger women (Grk: ne(o)teras) to marry, bear children, manage the household, and give the adversary no cause to revile us,

A satanically-heretical quote from the NIV (in part connived and/or approved by NIV-authoress and avowed lesbian Virginia Mollenkot) reads:

It is good for a man to not marry. [Thus, the despicable plethoria of non-married fornicating playboys, rapists and molesters, call girls and escorts, masseuse harlots, jealousy, venereal disease, divorce, abortion-homicide, suicide, murder, depressed economy, endangered national security, etc.]