– Nabilah Phillips dropped out of Cambridge to marry Hasan Phillips – She is one of three women married to the businessman and charity worker – There are as many as 20,000 polygamous Muslim marriages in Britain – New documentary, The Men with Many Wives, exposes rise in these unions […]
Epigraph: And if you fear that you will not be fair in dealing with the orphans, then marry of women as may be agreeable to you, two, or three, or […]
Source: The Huffington Post Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has been moved to Hospital Galveston according to his Texas Department of Criminal Justice offender record. The polygamist sect leader, 58, is serving a life sentence for sexually abusing two minors, one […]
Dailytimes: If husbands are able to care for them rather equally — financially as well as emotionally — and the first wife does agree to the second wife, then why do some people make such a fuss about it? The interpretation of the sacred Quran varies quite significantly within the Muslim […]
Source: BBC French President Francois Hollande is to formally announce his separation from his official partner, Valerie Trierweiler, say French media reports. It comes after a magazine published photos apparently […]
By Aishah Schwartz …………….. Today polygyny is seen as an exception rather than a rule, and indeed, this is true, as it takes an exceptional man to navigate its oftentimes tumultuous waters. But the Quran and Sunnah do not leave men ill-equipped when making a decision toward polygyny, or in […]
Since the U.S. Supreme Court made largely favorable rulings for gay marriage last month, there has been hope in some quarters, even predictions, that polygamy is next. The thinking, by […]
[Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22473573%5D NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: These are the desperate times for which Islam has asked capable men to come forward and take responsibility of more than one families. Before the war began, Kazal was in love with her neighbour in Homs. “He was 20 years old and I dreamed […]
By Peggy Fletcher Stack | The Salt Lake Tribune Mormon historians are cheering the newly released English edition of LDS scriptures, pointing to new wording about race and polygamy that […]
For all the political differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney, it’s important to remember there is more in humanity that unites than divides. Consider what author David Maraniss discovered […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Penang men no longer need to seek permission from their first wife in order to take on another bride. Instead, they now only need to get permission from […]
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and biologists agree: It’s complicated. By Daniel Engber http://www.slate.com What makes us different from all the other animals? Is it our swollen brains, our idle hands, or perhaps […]
SOURCE: Biblical Families by PolyPride » 12:35am – Wed, 19 Sep 2012 http://www.biblicalfamilies.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3651#p36906&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Romantic love is valuing another person more than anything else. You have to give your all to that one person up to even sacrificing yourself for them if need be. If you don’t have this for you […]
by Sebastian Mhofu, Voice of America HARARE — A court in Zimbabwe has cancelled the wedding of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, set for Saturday, after two women separately filed interdicts. […]
A notary in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has sparked controversy by accepting a civil union between three people. Public Notary Claudia do Nascimento Domingues has said the man and two women should be entitled to family rights. She says there is nothing in law to prevent such an […]
Huff Post With Gov. Romney the clear favorite to win the Republican nomination, the question of a Mormon president in the White House will be a hot topic this election season. One of the most prominent displays of Mormonism is TLC’s popular reality show “Sister Wives,” in which an openly […]
This web page is dedicated to an open analysis and review of the Cherem Rabbeinu Gershom and the issue of polygamy for Orthodox Jews. All discussion is based on the following premises: G-d is the creator G-d gave to the Jews the entire Torah, both oral and written Chazal, our […]
“After polygamy was made a sin” by John Cairncross Published 1974 by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. ISBN 0 7100 7730 Introduction This book, subtitled “The Social History of Christian Polygamy”, was written by a former British civil-servant and journalist who discovered an anti-polygamy book in a Paris bookstore in […]
Source: India Today Deoband, the influential seminary, has directed Muslims in India to avoid practising polygamy, an initiative that has won instant approval much like the 2008 advisory that denounced terrorism as a grave sin against Islam. Responding to a query from a person who wanted to marry again while […]
Huff Post The Royal Canadian Mounted Police haverenewed investigation into possible polygamy within the Bountiful B.C. religious commune, a settlement of roughly 1,000 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints located in southeastern British Columbia near the U.S.-Canadian border, the Canadian Press reports. Shirley Bond, the attorney-general of […]