Polygamy on the Religious Left

Deal Hudson

Marjorie, as I was mulling over the prospect of polygamy in Canada, I recalled that two of the leading figures of the "Religious Left" do NOT find a normative view of marriage in Scriptures.

If you read the recent books by Rev. Jim Wallis (God's Politics) and Rabbi Michael Lerner (The Left Hand of God), you will be told that the ONLY normative teaching in Scripture, especially in the New Testament, is caring for the poor. 

None of the other moral teachings that are usually accepted as normative are accepted as such by Wallis and Lerner.  They explicitly leave the door open to homosexual marriage. 

They cite  polygamy in the Old Testament as proof that the "Biblical view" of marriage is not fixed.

They don't, however, in my recollection, advocate a return to polygamy.

My only question is, why not?