Dear Sir/Madam,
                    Biblical marriage is monogamy or polygyny

Ideally, marriage should be a committed relationship wherein love is given and received with mutual respect and all other desirable virtues to which the perfect marriage aspires. These things being so, we all acknowledge that there are many issues addressed when marriage choices are made.

Women will consider a potential husband’s capacity to support them and their children and some men marry because of family expectations. These and many other things could be very legitimate considerations and we are all free to enter marriage based on the facts at our disposal with a reasonable expectation of the ideal result and the support and acceptance of family and the wider society.

As a Christian I know the Bible strongly recommends marriage but leaves the structural choice of marriage to the individual. There are monogamous and polygynous marriages in the Bible, and God used and blessed both forms and today there are many thousands of polygynous marriages around the world.

Polygynists are not demanding all follow them in their marriage choice, or that others argue from assumed positions, either religious or philosophical as to why men and women should or should not enter such marriages. If we make our choices then we should be equally free to do so without any shadow cast in our direction from individuals or governments. Certainly God is accepting.

I look forward to the day when plural families are seen in the same light as monogamous ones; people entering committed relationships to give and receive love and without criticism against whatever other criteria underpinned their decision.

Yours in the Scriptural truth of marriage,

Signed.............

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