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p>I challenge you to provide any evidence that Jesus endorsed polygamy. I believe that you can only provide the most tangential associations of Jesus and polygamy. To actually show any endorsement is impossible. Put up or shut up. br> -- Grant Hodges /p> p> Happy Feder replies: br> I wrote, "Even Jesus embraced the Mishrah, which allowed for polygamy." Which is different than saying he embraced polygamy. It is true, of course, that the Gospels don't reveal his specific thoughts on the practice. I won't speak for Jesus, but I'd expect if a Brigham Young had been around at the time selecting promisingly pretty ten year old girls to marry a few years down the road as a twentieth or thirtieth wife, Jesus would have condemned the abuse and excess. /p> p> HURRICANE ANDREW br> Re: Lawrence Henry's An Unclothed Emperor : /p>

Mr. Henry's latest contribution ends thus: "The next day, Andrew Sullivan mentioned Broder's column approvingly. Ah, well. That is another unclothed emperor for another time."

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