Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Monday, July the 10th,

2023. I'm Chris Elkins narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison. Bill de Blasio, the former mayor of New York City and his wife,

Shirlane McCrae, recently told the New York Times

that they are separating after nearly 30 years of marriage. However, they are not planning to divorce

and will continue to share the townhouse where they raise their two children. Instead, they are,

quote unquote, opening their marriage to date other people, choosing what is now known

as consensual non-monogamy.

Marriage therapists say that they have seen a definite rise in such arrangements.

This is one version of polyamory, a growing movement to advocate for polygamy, quote-unquote,

thruples, and other forms of non-monogamous romantic

relationships. Towns and municipalities are now legalizing such partnerships, fulfilling the warning by

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, much ridiculed at the time, that the 2015 Obergefell

decision legalizing same-sex marriage would open the door to polygamy as well.

We are living in a day when marriage is being redefined to include nearly any imaginable sexual relationship.

However, God's word could not be more clear in Hebrews 13, 4,

let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be

undefiled, and God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Are we witnessing his judgment

in our day? Our father deals with us as gently as he can or as harshly as he must. Consequently,

his judgment takes two forms, permissive and punitive.

The first phase of his response to sin is typically to permit the consequences of our rebellion

against His word and will. For example, in Romans 1, verse 21, when people did not honor him as God

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