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Poly Practised Elsewhere

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They argued that a decision to take on another wife would affect the whole family, including the financial position of other spouses....
"The tone of that bill, if it becomes law, would be demeaning to women since it does not respect the principle of equality of spouses in the institution of marriage," Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, from the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), was quoted by Kenya's Standard newspaper as saying.
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Self-interested wives and confused clergy.........its not just in America, baby!
 
Saw the pictures of the brides in the second article. Quite beautiful! Blessed man. And they are Christians, nonetheless!

And to think that many think Africa is the backwards and uncivilized continent. Seems pretty ballsy and forward thinking to me.
 
Despite polygamy being common in Kenya, it's quite unheard of for a man to marry two women at the same time.

Elsewhere in Nigeria, these types of marriages seem to be gaining popularity.
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Kenya law was more than just 'legalizing poly' that was customary practice already; they only legally licensed monogamy. But now all marriages MUST be licensed. Which means...

It has abolished the practice of unofficial traditional marriages which were never registered and could be ended without any legal divorce proceedings.
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and

A woman is entitled to 50% of property acquired during marriage
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So ya, this is about co-opting traditional marriage into the government and, surprise surprise, using that to transfer the power to the women. It's all down hill from here.
 
Frank S said:
https://www.nation.co.ke/news/-Chri...than-one-wife/1056-4299848-dtv96mz/index.html
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Best section...

“I have never seen anywhere in the Bible where prophets and preachers prayed for single ladies to get married. The Bible people were polygamous and everyone had a husband,” he says, adding that widows were allowed to become concubines.
He says polygamy was commonly practised by many African traditional communities and the Jewish culture was also polygamous, adding that it only began to fade with the introduction of Christianity. “As far as the Bible is concerned, the number of wives or concubines that one has does not matter and is not a standard of holiness,” he says.
He adds: “I have come out to tell Christians that we must preach the true gospel and allow our men in the church to marry as many wives as they want. Polygamy is not about men needing many wives but it’s about women needing husbands.”
According to the cleric, the Bible has only come out strongly to condemn adultery, which is taking another man’s wife.
However, not all clerics agree with him. According to Pastor George Mutua, a theologian who is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in theology at Daystar University, God’s original plan is that each man gets one wife.
FALSE DOCTRINE
“Any teaching that goes against God’s original plan is a false doctrine,” says Mr Mutua, who is also a psychologist and a family counsellor.
He says Christianity is about going back to God’s original plan. After the fall of man, he says, that is when polygamy and other sins began.
But in Rev Mulwa’s perspective, monogamy was a Roman culture.
The reverend argues that the fact that the missionaries, who mostly came from Rome, began to preach monogamy does not mean that this is what the Bible teaches. “It is unfortunate for the Church that today, when our dear brothers and sisters attend theological schools, they are fed with so much gentile-tilted theology that upon graduation, they are well equipped to vigorously convince the world to buy into the Roman immigration of Christianity,” he says.
He says Christianity is not an American or European culture. Rather, it is God’s way of reaching and dealing with humankind.
The thinking of the West in terms of modernisation, civilisation and capitalisation is slowly and systematically killing Christianity by making it a very loose and unrealistic religion with no moral limits, he argues.
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But I don't know if this next part is correct?

In the Bible, he notes, some women seemed to have been in a complex situation such that remarrying was out of thought. They thus ended up being concubines.
But even for concubines, there was discipline, he says, and a man found with another man’s concubine was to be beaten. “This was a lesser punishment compared to when you were found with someone’s wife where the sentence was death by stoning,” he adds.
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“........Polygamy is not about men needing many wives but it’s about women needing husbands.”


Bingo!
The concubine part I just don’t see supported in Scripture.
 
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