NPR even ran a story about the cultural moment for polyamory stating, “Lately, I’m seeing ‘polyamory’ everywhere. The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed philosopher Carrie Jenkins about her new book What Love Is and What It Could Be in which she promotes polyamory. New York published an article promoting consensual nonmonogamy. Proponents of open marriage argue that as long as both spouses are in agreement with the arrangement then it does not break the fidelity of the marriage bond.Īre these marriage alternatives really going to become mainstream? Numerous articles have appeared over the last year promoting these different marriage arrangements. In some respects this is similar to polyamory, although the outside relationships may not be formalized as marriage. This arrangement involves couples in the marriage being open to romantic, sexual relationships outside the context of their own marriage. Open marriage is the third alternative in the marriage battleground. While a recent Christian blogger has stated that polyamory is not about sex, the basic premise of this type of relationship is that the various partners are in multiple intimate, romantic, sexual relationships. Polyamory literally means “many loves” and describes “consensually non-monogamous relationships there is an open agreement that one, both, or all individuals involved in a romantic relationship may also have other sexual and/or romantic partners.” Polyamory differs from polygamy because all partners can be in multiple marriage-like relationships. This form of marriage is the one most clearly set up for legalization through the Obergefell decision. Historically this is primarily a man married to multiple women. Polygamy is a marriage arrangement where one individual is married to multiple partners. Now we see a push for different types of marriage that infringe upon monogamy. Hodges opened the door to same-sex marriage. The 2015 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Until the last couple of years, laws in the United States only recognized marriage to be between one man and one woman. It is important for us to understand what these are and to critique them from a biblical perspective. The timeframe for normalization of these alternative marriages may have accelerated in recent months as a series of articles have been published touting the advantages of various forms of multiple marriage. I then tell my students that such arrangements will most likely be legal in the United States in just a matter of years and that the church will need to be prepared to address them. In this diagram, I visually depict the difference between polygamy and polyamory-two marriage arrangements that contrast monogamy. Students who have taken my Christian Home class are familiar with a diagram I draw on the board each semester. This post originally appeared on Theological Matters at.
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