Dear Editor,
Thanks to Andrew Bunt for alerting us in the August issue of en to the rise and acceptance of polyamorous relationships.
In comparison to same-sex marriage, he rightly points out that we need to wrestle with the ‘why’ of God’s law as well as the ‘what’. I think that we have still not, as evangelicals, really succeeded in doing that with same-sex marriage (why is same-sex sexuality harmful) even though the Biblical facts are clear (that God does not permit it). Perhaps only time will tell. I wonder if the argument for why not polyamory might be easier.
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