“A man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24).
A town in Massachusetts may be the first in the nation to recognize polyamorous domestic partnerships.
Polyamory means “many loves” and stands for the growing movement to legitimize and legalize polygamy and other multi-partner “marriages.” An episode of HGTV’s popular show House Hunters featured a “throuple” (three-person “couple”) seeking a new home in Colorado. The American Psychological Association has created a “Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force” to promote “awareness and inclusivity” about such relationships. A “Polyamory Group” has been formed at Princeton University.
On June 29, the city council of Somerville, a suburb northwest of Boston, unanimously passed an ordinance legally recognizing polyamorous relationships. The council member behind the change explained: “I’ve consistently felt that when society and government tries to define what is or is not a family, we’ve historically done a very poor job of doing so. It hasn’t gone well, and it’s not a business that government should be in.”
And yet apparently it is, at least in Somerville.
“The divine character of revealed truth”
J. I. Packer died Friday, July 17, at the age of ninety-three. Were it not for the death of Rep. John Lewis on the same day, I would have written yesterday’s Daily Article about this great theologian, professor, and author. In any list of the five most influential evangelical thinkers of my lifetime, he is certainly included. For many, he would head the list.
Packer is best known for his bestseller, Knowing God, which has sold more than one million copies since it was first released in 1973. As grateful as I am for this inspiring call to experience God and his attributes more intimately, another of Packer’s books has been even more significant…
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