Polyamory, Monogamy, and the Christian's Conscience

Updated on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 3:50PM by Otter

I’m emphatically not saying that polyamorous relationships are not comforting, good, and even strong in love in a lot of cases.  Nor am I arguing for monogamy, which I think has its roots in some complicated biological and economic realities that shouldn’t always have the final word.

I’m saying that polyamory can never be consonant with a fully Christian vision of the world, and that this is not because Christianity reveres monogamy but because it reveres God, who is jealous and who (if Jesus and Paul are right) in the end will have nobody sharing your soul.

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