Fornication is a sin.

"Fornication is a sin."
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There are many forms of fornication that is, having sex outside of marriage which are all in violation of the 6th & 9th Commandment (7th & 10th Commandment if you follow the Protestant numbering of the Commandments)

6th Commandment - Thou shall not commit adultery

9th Commandment - Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s wife/husband
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I know a lot of people ain't going to like what I have to say about here, but that's fine, you can keep scrolling because I'm not in the ear tickling business. My goal is to proclaim the Kingdom of God which is at hand! I proclaim the Kingdom in this life with the faith & hope to join you there in the next life.

Now, I've been working hard on taking the logs out of my own eyes before mentioning any twigs in my neighbor's eyes.

The form of fornication I want to discuss is polygamy.

I would have been very fine with polygamy (a marriage that exceeds one man & one woman) when I was a lukewarm Catholic who was very uninformed to the point of not even practicing my Faith. You can almost say, all I had was, "Faith Alone" without living it out 😉.

Not only was I okay with polygamy, I wanted it as a goal in my "own" selfish way. What I mean is it must have been only one male & numerous females, with the double standard being that the other way around one female & numerous males was wrong.

But, there is a great quote from Saint Augustine that states, “If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”

Now during my reversion (being that I was already a Catholic coming back to the Faith it's called a, "reversion" had I been a Protestant or professed a belief in another religion, it would then be called a, "conversion") there was many things I would liked to have rejected, but then as St. Augustine says, it would not have been the Gospel I believed, but rather my prideful self that I believed.

G. K. Chesterton said,  “I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.”

There are too many things to mention, but I'll be glad to discuss them at a later time.

My conformity to the Holy Scripture (the Bible), Apostolic Tradition (how we got the Bible) & the teaching authority to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church (the Church Christ established with the promise that the gates of Hell shall never prevail against) was a journey. This conformity wasn't done over night! It took the Grace of God & like purifying precious medal, it took time & is still an ongoing process. So, in no shape or form, am I, judging nor am I casting the 1st stone. I'm just simply saying where I'm at now in my Faith Journey.

Same-sex marriage & homosexual acts are forms of fornication & are clearly prohibited in the Bible.

See in the Old Testament: 

Genesis 19:15, Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus. 20:132 & Judges 19.722,

See in the New Testament: 

Romans 1:26 & 27, I Corinthians 6:9, 1 Timothy 1:9-10, Jude 7 & Peter 2:6 

But unlike that form of fornication, polygamy isn't explicitly prohibited.  In fact one can actually use the Bible to make a case in support of polygamy. After all, before Abraham begotten Issac with Sarah, he had Ishmael through Hagar with the permission of Sarah. Which eventually lead to Sarah's jealous rage & explosion of both Hagar & Ishmael. Furthermore, Issac who begotten Jacob, who was the father of the 12 sons of what would become the 12 tribes of Israel, didn't have those 12 sons to one woman. If you are familiar with the story of the Patriarchs, you might recall Jacob had 12 sons and at least one daughter, by his 2 wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah. Rachel was Jacob's true love who he wanted to marry, and if you read the story, you'll know that jealousy, envy & conflict is not far behind. (See Genesis chapter 29)

In a marriage, one man is to offer his whole self to his wife & vice versa. But in a polygamous situation usually the man must divide himself & the woman/women is/are deprived of what she deserves in a marriage, his entirety.

And in the Gospel according to St. Matthew, Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ gives us a clear definition of marriage as designed by God Himself & notice how He says, "a man...to his wife" & not "men...to his wives" nor does Our Lord say, "a man...to his husband".

He clearly states as follows. ...
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St. Matthew 19:4-6
"He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”

CCC 2386 - The predicament of a man who, desiring to convert to the Gospel, is obliged to repudiate one or more wives with whom he has shared years of conjugal life, is understandable. However polygamy is not in accord with the moral law." [Conjugal] communion is radically contradicted by polygamy; this, in fact, directly negates the plan of God which was revealed from the beginning, because it is contrary to the equal personal dignity of men and women who in matrimony give themselves with a love that is total and therefore unique and exclusive."180 The Christian who has previously lived in polygamy has a grave duty in justice to honor the obligations contracted in regard to his former wives and his children.

CCC 2400 -Adultery, divorce, polygamy, and free union are grave offenses against the dignity of marriage
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Now you might be of the liberal minded idea that, "as long as they're happy" but, then you must put yourself in the shoes of the parents of that spouse that has to see their grown child having to share their spouse. Just imagine the spouse who has to share his/her spouse, who is by default is deprived of receiving their spouse in entirety due to the fact they are other spouses to compete with within his/her own marriage. Or even place yourself in the perspective of the children growing up in such cases. It’s appalling & egregious.

Or maybe you are so liberal minded that you lost touch with reasoning & nothing can be said to you in order for you to see where the immorality lies within polygamy.

I understand you can't be so closed minded that nothing can get it, but at the same time you can't be so open minded that everything starts to fall out.

I'm also reminded of another quote from, G. K . Chesterton, "For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening’s sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid."

Now this whole blog where I'm venting stems from a post I saw on my social media timeline in the regards to a polygamous situation where the poster argues, "If same-sex marriage is legal, then why not polygamy?"

Well even a blind person could have seen that coming eventually. There are already some liberal psychologist making the case that pedophiles should have the same legal rights. They argue, "They are *born* that way."

Anyways, I'm not trying to offend anyone, I'm just trying to be that voice to call for repentance before it is too late, for you know NOT the hour or the day, the Lord will say you had enough chances to repent.

Fornicators will not enter Heaven, but while you are still breathing & your heart is still beating you have a chance to repent & receive the mercy of God which is so great it is like the ocean waiting envelop you to forgive & renew your standing with God. Your sin doesn’t define you, every Saint has a pass & every sinner has a future.

God bless you all.

And remember God loves you & so do I.

I love you all, unconditionally.

Pax Vobis. (Peace be to you)