Talk about egg all over his face.
For a while the Tibetans were so poor that they allowed women to have multiple husbands. It sounds good until one knows that men had to BUY a bride and most men were TOO poor to do that, so brothers and cousins would pool their money and buy ONE bride between/among them.
The poor wife had to "do" for ALL of them: laundry, food, sex, the whole nine yards. Not fun.
Now THAT is poverty.
“Why didn’t they just go to a local mosque to get married and then go back to the Rector and wave the marriage certificate in his face?”
I’d pay money to watch that!!