A Call to Polygamy

[Robert Franklin Draper III]

Polygamy is a wholesome practice that is prevalent in the Middle East and various Muslim countries, and it is a means to create large families, and a fruitful blood line, but in America it is illegal because American people discriminate against practices deriving from other religions and cultures.. But America has had a history of implementing laws that discriminate against people who are perceived as being different. For along time, laws prohibited black people and woman from voting, people of color from being witnesses or jurors on a court stand, and prevented blacks from getting business licenses. There were even laws that prevented homosexual and lesbian behavior, and if any of these laws were broken then the people who were perceived as criminals would be punished. But, one law still remains, and that is the law prohibiting polygamy. Being married to one woman is not for everybody, nor is polygamy for everyone. If laws prohibiting homosexual and lesbian behavior, which are forbidden by most of the religions of the world, can be abolished, then why can't laws prohibiting polygamy be abolished. As expected, if you don't like a certain practice, just don't participate in it. Let me tell you a few things I don't like. I don't like the concept of homosexuality and lesbianism, so what do I do, I just don't participate in them, and yes the last one I can't participate in because I don't have the required genitalia for it. Now let's talk about the concept of polygamy, which is an odd concept to many westerners..

Islam says that a man can have up to four wives. No its not required, but it is permitted. Also, a man must be able to take care of his wives and children, and to be frank with you, it's not the governments' responsibility to take care of a mans many wives and numerous offspring. Also, there are rules to having many wives. Surreal 4 entitled An-Nissa, and verse 23 of that Surra says, "Prohibited to you (for marriage) are: your mothers, daughters, sisters; father's sisters, mother's sisters; brother's daughters, sister's daughters; foster-mothers (who gave you suck), foster-sisters; your wives' mothers; your step-daughters under your guardianship, born of your wives to whom ye have gone, no prohibition if ye have not gone in; (those who have been) wives of your sons proceeding from your loins; and two sisters in wedlock at one and the same time." Also, one does not have sex with their spouse prior to marriage. In most cases of American marriages, the couple have sex prior to marriage, but that is not the case in Islam. Furthermore, if a man has a big sexual desire, which many men do, they can get married to more than one woman. Personally, I have no problem with a man having more than one wife. If you like it, and you can afford it, do it, but if the prior stipulations don't apply then maybe its not for you. But the legal system should not make polygamy illegal because it infringes upon the religious rights of other people.

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