Thanks to Kirk Cameron for having me on TBN's Praise the Lord last night!
400-408 – Dinesh D'Souza, best-selling author and lecturer, and now the new President of King's College in NYC (tkc.edu), is out with his latest entitled The Roots of Obama's Rage (dineshdsouza.com). Dinesh was on Glenn Beck's TV show Wednesday and Thursday nights.
•• Dinesh D'Souza, Forbes (9/27/2010) How Obama Thinks. This is an excellent piece!!
413-423 – Dinesh D'Souza
428-437 – Dinesh D'Souza
443-452 – Dinesh D'Souza
458-508 – Bill Herren, owner of American Vision Windows (AmericanVisionWindows.com, 888-348-8989), one of the principals behind the movie Like Dandelion Dust, based on the Karen Kingsbury novel, that opens tonight. For locations, go to likedandeliondust.com and click on the "theater" tab for a location near you. It was the Winner of a dozen Audience Choice Awards for Best Picture, and USA Today calls it "the next Blind Side." Bill, Kathleen, and Shelene Bryan will be at the theater in Simi Valley tonight. And several of the actors and actresses will be at the Mann 9 theaters in Thousand Oaks.
512-523 – What's up with our fascination with polygamy? Kody Brown and his four wives - Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn - their 13 children, and 3 stepchildren are causing quite a stir these days on TLC's new reality show that premiered this past Sunday night, "Sister Wives." Police in Brown's hometown of Lehi, Utah, are investigating.
(:33) Sister Wives Opening. (TLC Sunday Nights)
• (2:06) ABC Sister Wives. (ABC's Dan Harris does a story on Sister Wives playing audio from a previous interview from 9/28/2010. The story and interview are here.)
(:05) Kody Brown. Sister from the same mister.
(:46) SW in trouble. Audio from a previous interview on ABC with Dan Harris.
(:08) SW attorney. The Brown's attorney, Bill Morrison.
• (8:43) TODAY Sister Wives. (Meredith Vieira interviews Kody Brown and his 4 wives: Meri, Janelle and Christine and Robyn on NBC's TODAY Show)
(:13) KB 4 Wives. (Kody Brown talks about falling in love with his first 3 wives. The 4th wife's courtship and marriage is what is shown on the show, which is pre-recorded.)
(:14) KB Faith Belief.
(:31) JB Faith (Janelle Brown weighs in)
(:46) House functions. (How does the house function with 4 wives?)
(:46) Jealousy (Christine Brown talks about jealousy in the house)
(:35) Intimacy
(:41) Kids and choices
(:12) Oppressed
(:39) Dangerous (Janelle and Robyn)
• ABC News (9/28/2010) 'Sister Wives' Stars Investigated; Felony Charges Possible.
• CBS News (9/28/2010) TLC's "Sister Wives" Investigated, Bigamy Charges Possible, Say Reports.
• MSN (9/29/2010) Bus tours journey into polygamist heartland.
• AP (9/28/2010) Utah police investigate plural family for bigamy.
• Softpedia (9/30/2010) TLC Stands by Polygamous 'Sister Wives,' Even If Family Goes to Jail.
• How about some "Christian Polygamy" sites?
• Christian-Polygamy.com, "Why Polygamy?"
• Christianpoly.com, "Scriptural Polygyny"
523 – Don Rohde @ Galpin Ford (818) 262-2092. For the past 38 years, Don has been a sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 20 consecutive years. Galpin has been family-owned and operated for the past 59 years, and 90% of their business is repeat or referral. Galpin offers Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Honda, Mazda, Saturn, Volvo, Jaguar, and Aston Martin. Located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley at Roscoe and the 405, it's Galpin Ford (galpin.com).
528-539 – • Apologetics Index, "Polygamy : What the Bible Says"
From the very beginning God created one woman for one man (see Genesis 1:27, 2:21-25).
Deuteronomy 17:17 explicitly instructed the king not to "multiply wives." Moses' law said, the king "shall not multiply horses to himself… Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold" (Deuteronomy 17:16-17).
Polygamy's origins and consequences – A very important point to remember is that not everything recorded in the Bible is approved in the Bible. Consider where polygamy originated — first in the line of the murderer Cain, not the godly line of Seth. The first recorded polygamist was the murderer Lamech (Gen. 4:23–24). Then Esau, who despised his birthright, also caused much grief to his parents by marrying two pagan wives (Gen. 26:34).
God also forbade the kings of Israel to be polygamous (Deut. 17:17). Look at the trouble when they disobeyed, including deadly sibling rivalry between David's sons from his different wives; and Solomon's hundreds of wives helped lead Solomon to idolatry (1 Kings 11:1–3). Also, Hannah, Samuel's mother, was humiliated by her husband Elkanah's other wife Peninnah (1 Sam. 1:1–7).
What about godly men who were polygamous? – Abraham and Sarah would have been monogamous apart from a low point in their faith when Hagar became a second wife — note how much strife this caused later. Jacob only wanted Rachel, but was tricked into marrying her older sister Leah, and later he took their slave girls at the sisters' urging, due to the rivalry between the sisters. Jacob was hardly at a spiritual high point at those times, and neither was David when he added Abigail and Ahinoam (1 Sam. 25:42–43).
Why did God seem to allow it, then? It is more like the case of divorce, which God tolerated for a while under certain conditions because of the hardness of their hearts, but was not the way it was intended from the beginning (Matt. 19:8). But whenever the Mosaic law had provisions for polygamy, it was always the conditional 'If he takes another wife to himself …' (Ex.21:10), never an encouragement. God put a number of obligations of the husband towards the additional wives which would discourage polygamy. It is no wonder that polygamy was unknown among the Jews after the Babylonian exile, and monogamy was the rule even among the Greeks and Romans by New Testament times.
- Source: Does the Bible clearly teach monogamy? by Dr Jonathan Sarfati
• Ron Rhodes, ChristianAnswers.net, "If bigamy is sinful, why did King Solomon have so many wives?"
1 Kings 11:1-3 reports, But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; from the nations of whom the LORD had said to the children of Israel, "You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
First Kings 11:1-3 indicates that King Solomon had 700 hundred wives and 300 hundred concubines, many from lands of which God had previously instructed the Israelites to avoid intermarrying. God knew that such intermarrying would lead to the worship of false gods. Why, then, did Solomon do this?
History reveals that Solomon was very aggressive in his foreign policy. In sealing treaties in ancient days, it was customary for a lesser king to give his daughter in marriage to the greater king (in this case, Solomon). Every time a new treaty was sealed, Solomon ended up with yet another wife. These wives were considered tokens of friendship and "sealed" the relationship between the two kings.
In the process of doing all this, Solomon was utterly disobedient to the Lord. He was apparently so obsessed with power and wealth that it overshadowed his spiritual life and he ended up falling into apostasy. He worshipped some of the false gods of the women who became married to him.
Moreover, in marrying more than one woman, Solomon was going against God's revealed will regarding monogamy. From the very beginning God created one woman for one man (see Genesis 1:27; 2:21-25). Deuteronomy 17:17 explicitly instructed the king not to "multiply wives."
Moses' law said, the king "shall not multiply horses to himself… Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold" (Deuteronomy 17:16-17).
So Solomon sinned in various ways—(1) he engaged in polygamy, (2) he violated God's commandment against marrying pagans, which ultimately led to his own apostasy, (3) he collected huge numbers of horses (a large chariot army), and (4) he gathered vast amounts of gold and silver.
Solomon's tolerance of his wives' pagan religions led to terrible sins against God. 1 Kings 11:4-9 states,
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his foreign wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. And the LORD was angry with Solomon…
544-554 – Calls
558-608 – • NPR (5/28/2008) Philly's Black Muslims Increasingly Turn to Polygamy. Polygamy in the U.S. is not limited to remote enclaves in the West or breakaway sects once affiliated with the Mormon Church. Several scholars say it's growing among black Muslims in the inner city — and particularly in Philadelphia, which is known for its large orthodox black Muslim community. No one knows exactly how many people live in polygamous families in the U.S. Estimates from academics researching the issue range from 50,000 to 100,000 people.
Have you had any personal experience with polygamy? Are there polygamous families right here in LA that you know of?
612-623 – Calls
628-639 – Calls.
644-656 – Earlier today, our own Reba Toney interviewed Karen Kingsbury (6:06), author of Like Dandelion Dust, which opens tonight at theaters around LA. For locations, go to likedandeliondust.com and click on the "theater" tab for a location near you. It was the Winner of a dozen Audience Choice Awards for Best Picture, and USA Today calls it "the next Blind Side." Bill, Kathleen, and Shelene Bryan will be at the theater in Simi Valley tonight. And several of the actors and actresses will be at the Mann 9 theaters in Thousand Oaks.
• Mona Charen, NRO (10/1/2010) Non-Marriage, Not Markets: What is really to blame for rising inequality.
• Jonah Goldberg, NRO (10/1/2010) Oh, That Weird Constitution! The creepy logic of so many liberals today.
• Cal Thomas (9/30/2010) Superman Has Left the School Building.
