S. A. David: "WHY CAN’T THEY BE JOINED TO MORE THAN ONE?"

President Barrack Obama
The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

     WHY CAN’T THEY BE JOINED TO MORE THAN ONE?
Our ancestors did it. They did it everywhere. They did it in Europe. They endorsed it in Asia. It was part of their mentifact of North America. It stood the test of time, and prospered, and still prospers, in Africa. It was respectable in Antarctica. It had its ground in South America; and was not kicked against in Australia.
Plural marriage! Polygamy!
I will call him Honourable Ose. He is a lawyer, member of Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives and my first cousin. He is married with four wives who love each other and each others’ children. Of course, there will always be windows of misunderstanding which they always find ways, sometimes compromising, to shut and everybody lives happily ever after again.
There’s been an outright condemnation of this kind of marriage most especially in your country since the mid-1800s until the actual preclusion and exclusion of this marriage-type from the mentifact shores of the USA. Men are not allowed to marry more than one wife. In fact, polygamy is a crime.
Till date, I have not excavated, from earth's crust, any sensible reason for the criminalisation of polygamy in your country. I had researched every possible history and yet found nothing of tangible worth. Yet, though, I refused to believe that the bible was a basis for the “unjust polygamy legislation” perhaps because I had been made to believe that the USA is heaven, a perfect utopia; a place where democracy is practised in its completion and as such the bible would not be a basis for legislation.
And after my research, I had come to conclude that the bible does not condemn polygamy just as God, in whom the entire American populace and you trust, does not condemn it. The problem with religious leaders, allow me to digress a little, especially in Christendom, is that they have failed to distinguish between what scripture records and what it approves and/or condemns. It (the bible) recorded polygamy. It did not condemn it.
Now, back from my "digression-trip," Mr. President, your country and you are upholders of human rights. Great! You have condemned countries, including mine, as violators of human rights just because of the anti-gay legislation that never ceases to rock the headlines of the media. I am not a crusader of the anti-gay law which I think was uncalled for! But as an upholder of human right which you are; and being the number one man of God’s Own Country which has the best democracy in the world, why have you let this injustice run rampage in your country?
Why have you let the democracy of the United States of America to be insulted? A democracy is not just for the majority. Infact, its perfection is seen in the protection of the minority’s rights. Yes, our Muslim brothers constitute a very minuscule number of the American populace, and their scripture tells them they can marry more than one wife, so why can’t they be allowed their right? Why this discrimination? Why can't they be joined to more than one?
I know you did not make the anti-polygamy legislation. I am aware it was not done in your time. I even guess that the owners of the sperm and egg cells that were to form you had not met each other when people were called criminals because they wanted to be like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and Muhammed. But you can do something to remove reproach from the USA’s democracy.
But if you would not visit the issue because every American abhors polygamy, then those countries that find “gayism” abhorrent should be “let to lie”.
For the record, sir, I am not anti-gay, neither am I seeking to raise a polygamous home.
For democracy!
Thank you Mr. President!
Regards,
An African