the thousands of years of tradition that might be there for a really good reason.
And this is why I am a conservative.
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Me, too.
Bird’s nests and eggs are protected by modern conservationists so that the species will not become extinct. But human children are regarded by modern leftists as not needing the same kind of protection. The reason that the union of a man and a woman has been protected in law is so that the future generations of the human race will grow into civilized human beings.
Rinse and repeat, generation after generation, or sink into the alternative - where the entire country comes to replicate what has happened in many of our inner cities - where Big Daddy Government has become the support of the children there - and too many of these children to not grow into productive citizens.
In the Old Testament, polygamy was always related to the influence of the world, the influence of apostasy. Even though God made provision within the Mosaic Law for taking care of multiple wives, that was in order to make sure that the second, third, fourth wives were taken care of and not just abandoned and abused. It wasn’t an approval or a prescription for polygamy.