Polygamy is in the news again and not just in Canada.
Associated Press tells me that plans to open branches of a Malaysian version of LavaLife or EHarmony aimed at polygamists in Indonesia have upset women's groups and religious leaders in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Don't get me wrong, they are not anti multiple wives: according to the AP story under Islamic law Muslim men are permitted four wives. They just think that using a dating service cheapens the process.
Frankly it is beyond me why anyone would want more than a wife and a goomar but different strokes for different folks.
Polygamous relationships are believed to be gaining in popularity in secular Indonesia, but it's impossible to say how many there are because the marriages are performed secretly at mosques and are not recorded by the state. A grey area legally Indonesia's 1974 Marriage Law permits a man to have a second wife if his first is an invalid, infertile or terminally ill. However, there is no way to monitor adherence to the rules in the predominately Muslim nation.
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