No doubt you have likely heard the sweet chorus of what is known as The Whiffenpoof Song. It goes…
We're poor little lambs who have lost our way
Baa, baa, baa
We're little black sheep who have gone astray
Baa, baa, baa
I say you’ve likely heard the song as it’s been recorded by notables such as Bing Crosby, Elvis, Louis Armstrong, and a host of others. Its origins are traced to a Yale Glee Club trip in 1907. The song was created as a humorous response to the poem “Gentleman Rankers” by Rudyard Kipling. It continues to be sung at the end of every Yale concert.
It might well be the theme song for progressives who can’t find their way to moral truth on such topics as abortion and marriage. I cite as a prime example an April 5th, 2022, article in Vogue magazine titled, “Is Monogamy Over? Inside Love’s Sharing Economy.”
As you might surmise, the article begins with a real-life story. It tells of a woman named Megan, who for 15 years was intimate with only her husband. As it was written, “Both children of divorce, Megan and Marty committed to monogamy, vowing—especially after their children were born—that their marriage would last forever.” Apparently, that commitment began to weaken.
They tried being more creative on dinner dates – even pretending not to know each other. But then they started fantasizing about being “swingers.” The unraveling of their monogamous relationship began.
Marty explained it this way, “One person can’t be everything for someone else. It was clear that my all was not good enough.”
Baa. Baa. Baa.
This couple is not alone in pursuing “CNM” —consensual non-monogamy. The Vogue article cites a national survey conducted by the firm YouGov in 2020 revealing only 56 percent of respondents claimed complete monogamy as their ideal relationship style. And what’s more, “an estimated 23 percent of respondents said their relationships were already non-monogamous!”
Where do such things lead legally? In June of 2020, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, passed the country’s first known municipal ordinance recognizing polyamorous relationships. It granted the same legal rights as married monogamous couples to three or more people. Two other neighboring communities chose to follow suit in 2021.
There are voices who warned of the consequences. One of them was the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. We have lived to see his portrayal of the soon to follow “slippery slope” as our standards would drop.
Baa. Baa. Baa.
This couple is not alone in pursuing “CNM” —consensual non-monogamy. The Vogue article cites a national survey conducted by the firm YouGov in 2020 revealing only 56 percent of respondents claimed complete monogamy as their ideal relationship style. And what’s more, “an estimated 23 percent of respondents said their relationships were already non-monogamous!”
Where do such things lead legally? In June of 2020, Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, passed the country’s first known municipal ordinance recognizing polyamorous relationships. It granted the same legal rights as married monogamous couples to three or more people. Two other neighboring communities chose to follow suit in 2021.
There are voices who warned of the consequences. One of them was the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. We have lived to see his portrayal of the soon to follow “slippery slope” as our standards would drop.
Faithful Bible readers would readily know that many men in the Bible had multiple wives. Even concubines. Discerning Bible readers would also see that in Genesis, Adam and Eve are created to be man and wife. One man. One wife. That is God’s marriage plan and confirmed by Jesus’ words in Mark 10:6-9:
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (NIV)
No provision exists for multiple marriage partners (or unmarried partners.)
Perhaps the final verse of the Whiffenpoof Song bears repeating in light of how far we’ve strayed in the right thinking on marriage:
Gentleman songsters off on a spree
Doomed from here to eternity
Lord have mercy on such as we
Baa, baa, baa
It might have been the Glee Club who came up with this song. But the truth it bears in our day is anything but gleeful. Particularly with consensual non-monogamy.
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