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You may not approve of Polygamy but certainly God did, it was a part of Jewish law. If a man died leaving a widow and he had a brother the brother was to take his widow unto him as wife and raise up the dead mans children and even give the widow more children to raise up unto the dead man so that the dead brother would have descendants.

This actually was a wonderful law. The widow did not become destitute as a widow would if her husband had no brothers and children grew up in homes with a man at the head. The young men growing up could see what a man was supposed to be.

Today in our society and in many throughout the world we hand off that responsibility for our brothers family to the state. We pay the state to absolve us of that responsibility but then the children grow up fatherless and then don’t know what it means to be a father, it does great harm to societies. The Jewish law was better.

Monogamy is pretty much a Christian thing. While the New Testament does not say much about it, there is a proscription that a bishop be the husband of one wife. There are even arguments about that. Some say that means that you must be married to be wise enough to be a bishop other say it means you can not have more than one wife. How in the world that Catholicism gets celibacy out of that is beyond me.

I have one wife. One wife is a great thing. My wife is a wonderful woman, a wonderful wife, a wonderful friend and a wonderful person all around but, I don’t think I could do two of her or more. I have heard stories of polygamy being a good thing for all the participants but I just can’t fathom it. I have a special closeness with my wife that I can’t envision working with three or more. I would think that polygamy would be a great burden for a man. I am reminded how difficult life was for Isaac, Leah and Rachel. Issac loved Rachel more than Leah. That had to be a difficult situation for all involved.

How in the world that Catholicism gets celibacy out of that is beyond me.

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And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan; And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Matthew, Catholic chapter nineteen, Protestant verses one to twelve,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James