No to polygamy, polyandry
published: Thursday | June 16, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I DO not support the legalisation of polygamy and polyandry. It is a fact that our society's men and women are already jealous when their partners are involved with other persons. Since jealousy is already a big issue in a lot of relationships, how are they going to handle a committed relationship as marriage?

Call me selfish, but I want my man for myself. I do not want to know that another woman is sharing a life and a bed with my husband. When we also look at it from a biblical point of view, Ephesians teaches certain principles about married life. Ephesians 5:22-23 states, "Wives submit yourself unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the saviour of the body."

I am aware that we as a nation do not always obey the Bible, but how is a man going to 'head' more than one wife at a time; is he going to take turns? To legalise this act is to further break down the little values left in the society.

I am, etc.,

ROSEZETTA JOHNSON-PALMER

St. Andrew