Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Fw: [catholicACT] How to outlaw polygamy if homosexual union is legalised ?
From: Matthew Tan Yew Hock
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:13 AM
Subject: [catholicACT] How to outlaw polygamy if homosexual union is legalised ?
In the days ahead, we can expect a lot of turmoil in American society - in the legal, theological, philosophical and socio-political fields. Already homosexual union is making advances. The next big question will be the legalisation of polygamy - you can expect this to happen. It's an irony.
"unless America becomes Catholic, the laws against polygamy cannot hope to stand."
American women Protestants will fight against polygamy. What about the Protestant men? Of course, "Catholic" men, too - that goes without saying. Remember those "holy men" with many mistresses during the "Dark Ages".
Sounds like the women will lose this battle already.
Sooner or later, their law is going to infect Singapore (like the case on abortion).
Young women, make sure your future husband is a real Catholic !!!
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[Lamenting the silence of Christians in the face of homosexual unions]
Numerous others have commented on the logical silliness of allowing sodomy while outlawing polygamy...it is unlikely that this drive towards polygamy can be stopped. After all, who is left to oppose it?
Clearly, Mormons have a vested interest in remaining silent on the issue. While their faith now outlaws polygamy, this doctrinal position was taken up only after immense political, and even military, pressure was placed upon Mormon communities to conform to the larger Christian community. But Mormons are not the only ones who have no interest in fighting polygamy.
Muslims won’t lift a hand to stop its legalization – legal polygamy is part of sharia law, after all. Orthodox Jews are not opposed to polygamy either...[Talmudic] laws of marriage and divorce recognize the validity of polygamy...Even as recently as 1998, Wisconsin Lutheran Synod scholars have noted that the insistence on monogamy was questionable both on Scriptural grounds and on the difficulties it caused to missionary efforts in polygamous societies, which comprise about 70% of the world’s population.
It is hard to find cultures that embraced homosexual marriage. It is easy to find cultures that permit polygamy.
Clearly, Mormons have a vested interest in remaining silent on the issue. While their faith now outlaws polygamy, this doctrinal position was taken up only after immense political, and even military, pressure was placed upon Mormon communities to conform to the larger Christian community. But Mormons are not the only ones who have no interest in fighting polygamy.
Muslims won’t lift a hand to stop its legalization – legal polygamy is part of sharia law, after all. Orthodox Jews are not opposed to polygamy either...[Talmudic] laws of marriage and divorce recognize the validity of polygamy...Even as recently as 1998, Wisconsin Lutheran Synod scholars have noted that the insistence on monogamy was questionable both on Scriptural grounds and on the difficulties it caused to missionary efforts in polygamous societies, which comprise about 70% of the world’s population.
It is hard to find cultures that embraced homosexual marriage. It is easy to find cultures that permit polygamy.
The irony is rich. Despite their pretended insistence on Scripture alone, the Protestant "reformers" took with them much that Catholic Faith taught. Whether Protestant, evangelical or fundamentalist, every Christian today owes the core of his belief to Catholic Faith, a Catholicism that is unpolished and poorly ordered, but Catholic nonetheless. The opposition to polygamy in this country is unquestionably a vestige of Catholic belief, carried - unquestioned - by Protestants for generations, but now coming under scrutiny by secular atheists.
Protestants will discover, to their horror, that they hold to monogamy for no particular Scriptural reason...Catholics can appeal not only to Scripture, but also to the natural law, to millennia of divine tradition, to the divine authority of the Magisterium, the teaching office of the Church. Non-Catholic Christians have nothing to appeal to but Scripture, and Scripture says nothing in particular in opposition to polygamy.
"...unless America becomes Catholic, the laws against polygamy cannot hope to stand."
[As I said previously, my former Protestant pastors taught that "two shall become one flesh", not three or four or five becoming one flesh].
[As I said previously, my former Protestant pastors taught that "two shall become one flesh", not three or four or five becoming one flesh].
