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- A Marriage Counterculture - Christianity Today - When I was a missionary in India, the most complex problem was polygamy-what to do with a man who sought baptism but had more than one wife.
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/135/44.0.html
- Accept Polygamy as an African Tradition, WCC Told - ENI - The general secretary of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Densen Mafinyani, has urged the World Council of Churches to stop quibbling over whether an African church which tolerates polygamy should be accepted as a WCC member.
www.eni.ch/assembly/0580.html
- ACLU of Utah to Join Polygamists in Bigamy Fight - ACLU Newswire - In hopes of vanquishing what they consider a 64-year-old injustice, a small but vocal group of polygamous wives and their supporters demonstrated in front of The Salt Lake Tribune, the paper reported today.
www.aclu.org/news/1999/w071699b.html
- African Polygamous Life In A Western Context - A French woman, Claudette Bodin, is a secretary general of Afrique Partenaire, an association which assists African immigrant polygamous families in France.(Panafrican News Agency)
library.northernlight.com/FB20001205790000046.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc
- African Woman Leads Crusade Against Polygamy - New York Times - Although she scarcely tolerates it, her problem is not so much the traditional rural practice, which is widespread throughout this region, where the economics of hardscrabble farming have long encouraged men to take more than one wife.
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/015.html
- Can't We All Just Get Along? - CBN - Pat Robinson says about polygyny, "but I don't know anything in the Bible that says it's against the Bible".
www.christianity.com/CC/article/1,1183,PTID2546|CHID|CIID409243,00.html
- Family Planning Issues Still Foremost in African Society - ANN - One man says that as Africa realizes sex equality, polygamy will disappear. Another warns that the result may be a move from polygamy to promiscuity.
www.adventist.org/pages/paiva.html
- For Zimbabwean Father, 86 is Not Enough - CNN - Although polygamy has been accepted for centuries in Africa, many in Zimbabwe feel the practice is in direct conflict with the modern-day values now practiced in much of the country.
www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9910/16/superdad/index.html
- Inonge Wina Demands Abolition of Polygamy - allAfrica - POLYGAMY should be done away with, demanded Nalolo UPND member of parliament Inonge Wina yesterday.
allafrica.com/stories/200203210193.html
- Islamic Woman Challenges South African Law on Marriages - CNN - South Africa's common law system denies the status of marriage to all polygamous and potentially polygamous unions. And that applies to Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish and indigenous African marriages. Under South African law, these religions are believed to practice polygamy.
www.cnn.com/WORLD/world.report/1999/9910/11/index.html
- Jesus Loves Polygamy, This I Know - Las Vegas Weekly - Christians use Internet as polygamy tool.
lasvegasweekly.com/2001_2/11_22/news_upfront1.html
- Lobola Polygamy and the Law - Weekly Mail and Guardian - Much of the debate has concentrated on the friction between gender equality and traditions in African customary law, such as polygyny.
www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/951208/wm951208-26.html
- Marriage Issues Send my Daughter Wrong Message - USA Today, William Mattox Jr. - As the parents of a teenage daughter who hopes to get married someday, my wife and I not only have a stake in what our daughter is taught about marriage, we have a stake in what other people's sons are taught as well.
www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-08-21-ncguest1.htm
- Media Directory - Transcripts, quotes, and tapes of radio, interviews, op-ed pieces, media mentions and other media-related matters regarding Christian Polygamy.
www.truthbearer.org/media
- Panel Discusses Polygamy in Africa - Student Publications Inc. - A description of polygamy in Africa was presented by a panel of speakers Friday evening in an attempt to explain a part of the African culture.
www.spub.ksu.edu/ISSUES/v099B/SP/n143/cam-polygamy-carter.html
- Pat Answers Your Questions - CBN - Pat answers questions about today's dating and marital norms, about polygyny.
www.christianity.com/CC/article/1,1183,PTID2546|CHID|CIID135076,00.html
- Polygamists Say Bible is on Their Side - Detroit News - Now Butt lives in Utah with three wives and five children, ministering to nearly 1,000 people around the country who call themselves Christian polygamists.
detnews.com/2000/religion/0001/16/01140011.htm
- Polygamy and Profit - Denver Rocky Mountain - Utah clan builds riches in Colorado, elsewhere, while growing bigger through intermarriage.
www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy29.html
- Polygamy Communities in Utah - 20/20 - Transcript expired, but you may order it or the video cassette.
abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/transcripts/2020_99028_polygamy_trans.html
- Polygamy Here to Stay, Scholar Says - Deseret News - After being practiced through thousands of years in most of the world's cultures, polygamy is not only here to stay but will likely grow in some communities, according to an Israeli scholar.
www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,75000368,00.html
- Polygamy Issue Resolved - e-Jubilee - The question of polygamy and clergy in the Celestial Church of Christ has apparently been resolved, and the Policy Reference Committee I has decided to recommend that it receive full WCC membership, according to a document released yesterday.
www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/assembly/ejubilee/7-piece5.htm
- Polygamy Not Justified Now - Muslimedia - The verses in the Qur'an concerning polygamy refer primarily to the economic perspective of marriage in Islam.
www.muslimedia.com/archives/features98/polygamy.htm
- Polygamy or Abuse? Utah Case Stirs Controversy - CNN - A court case involving a young girl refusing to stay in a polygamous relationship has stirred public debate and controversy in Utah over the issues of sex, polygamy and child abuse.
cnn.com/US/9808/08/polygamy/index.html
- Polygamy Prosecution: State Considers Role - Standard Front Page - The issue is whether polygamy cases should be dealt with on a state level, rather than on a county level.
www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story.html?sid=00010919232058349674+cat=news+template=news1.html
- Polygamy Still Widespread In Burundi Society - All Africa News Agency - Bujumbura - Despite stringent anti-polygamy measures provided for in Burundi laws, the heavy penalties often meted out to polygamists and the Christian teachings that marrying more than one wife is abhorrent and immoral, polygamy is still widespread in Burundi.
www.africanews.org/east/burundi/stories/19990301_feat1.html
- Polygamy, African Christians and the Anglican Communion - In parts of Africa, the central missionary question is polygamy. The Bible is of course quite clear on the subject. Polygamy is fine in the Old Testament; and even in the New, it is only bishops who are required to be 'the husband of one wife.
www.loper.org/%7Egeorge/trends/1998/Jul/91.html
- Polygamy, the Natural Law and St. Thomas - The University Concourse - In her lead article last issue Kathleen van Schaijik cites others as citing "adult students" at a theological institute as citing St. Thomas as writing that polygamy is permissible according to the natural law, because one man can inseminate many women.
www.theuniversityconcourse.com/II,2,10-2-1996/Waldstein.htm
- PPP Asks Official to Explain Polygamy Statement - The Star Online - Peoples Progressive Partys (PPP) youth chief T. Murugiah will be issued a show-cause letter over his promotion of polygamy among non-Muslims, which had angered many women leaders and NGOs, in his policy speech during the partys Youth convention last December.
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/3/3/nation/rimurugiah&sec=nation
- Russia Says No to Polygamy - BBC News - A decree by the leader of a small Muslim region in Russia allowing men to have up to four wives has been dismissed as unconstitutional by the justice minister.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_400000/400351.stm
- SC issues notice to SG on Muslim woman's plea against polygamy - PTI - The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the solicitor general of India on a petition filed by Julekhabi, a divorced Muslim woman, seeking a ban on polygamy prevalent in the community.
www.rediff.com/news/2001/jul/27sc.htm
- So Far From Home - Essence - In this column, which takes an intimate look at diverse cultures, the author travels to Paris to talk with a Senegalese woman about the unique difficulties of practicing polygamy in a cramped city apartment
www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1264/n5_v29/21019961/p1/article.jhtml
- Soap Opera Sets Off Debate in Arab World About Polygamy - The Nando Times - Hajj Metwalli has three wives and he's considering a fourth. He's happy, his wives consider themselves lucky - and the soap opera about their fictional lives has set off a debate across the Arab world about polygamy, Islam and love.
www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/194248p-1885572c.html
- Sudan Pushes Polygamy - BBC - President Bashir urges Sudanese men to take more than one wife to increase the population and promote the country's development.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1493000/1493309.stm
- Teen-age Girls are Fleeing Fundamentalist Sect to Avoid Polygamy - The Daytona Beach News-Journal - One of the first things Caroline Cooke did after she escaped from her polygamist community was cut her knee-length hair to an above-the-shoulder bob. She also traded her full-length dresses for sleeveless shirts and shorts.
www.news-journalonline.com/2001/Aug/23/NOTE1.htm
- Thousands of Families in Despair as France Enforces Ban on Polygamy - Independent - Toumani Diarra is a polygamist. Malian by birth, he lives with his two wives and eleven children crammed into a three-bedroom flat in a forlorn suburb of Paris. Since he arrived in France in 1970 he has supported his family by working as a plasterer.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=64055
- Two Homes, Two Families, Two Wives - Christian Science Monitor - Thawabta and about 20 percent of the men in his village, according to local estimates, maintain that the Koran provides the framework for polygamy.
www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/08/10/fp12s1-csm.shtml
- Uganda's Parliament to Re-Examine Polygamy - CNN - Sissie Nanyomba and Benna Nakato married the same man in the same month of the same year.
www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9804/05/uganda.polygamy
- Utah Man Is Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Polygamy Case - The New York Times - After his five current wives made desperate pleas to keep him out of prison, Thomas A. Green was sentenced today to a relatively light term, five years, for his conviction in June on four counts of bigamy and one count of criminal nonsupport.
www.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/national/25POLY.html?ex=999316800&en=862fd28e0f6c5b47&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
- Utah polygamy trial postponed until May - SALT LAKE CITY - A judge on Tuesday ordered self-professed polygamist Thomas Green, who has five wives and 25 children, to stand trial in May on four counts of bigamy.
www.msnbc.com/local/rtut/m6535.asp
- Vietnamese Polygamy King Said To Have 64 Children - Bernama - Seventy-two year-old Tran Chu, a Vietnamese bricklayer, started having children when he was 17 and he hasn't stopped. He currently lives in central Vietnam with ten of his "wives".
www.polygamy.com/Other-Vietnamese-Polygamy-King.htm
- Why Are Good Men So Hard to Find? - Ferris State Torch - The reason why good men are so scarce these days is because we've all seemed to have forgotten a simplelesson from our childhood sandbox: sharing. Polygamy might seem like some strange Mormon practice, but Martin Luther himself advocated it and European Christians only ceased its practice 200 years ago.
www.ferris.edu/torch/Opinions/02-13-02.html
- Women Defending Polygamy by Cala Byram - Article about Mary Potter, leader of the pro-polygamy Women's Religious Liberties Union.
www.ozemail.com.au/~robinsmith/poly1.html
- Choose Polygamy, Choose NOW - Washington Times - Feminists embracing polygamy as an acceptable lifestyle choice.
www.claremont.org/publications/KesslerNOWchoose.cfm
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