The Polygamist Next Door
The Christians in Context: from Orthodoxy to Orthopraxy Blog links to a YouTube clip from the Oprah Winfrey Show that interviews a polygamist family in the Southwest. The Blog post by Dan Meyers concludes with this question:
. . . Suppose that you have a church in this Arizona neighborhood and these polygamists are your neighbors . . . Do we require the husband to divorce all but one wife? Is it possible for this husband to continue providing for 22 children and 3 women outside of their current context? How do we respond to the biblical examples of polygamy? In 2 Samuel 12, we read of how God gave David many wives, and conceded that if it were not enough, He would have given him even more . . .