American religious history is littered with cult leaders who promised a blessed life through deviant sexuality. From the earliest frontier movements to the modern era, the pattern is remarkably consistent: a charismatic figure announces that traditional Christian morality is oppressive, outdated, or unnatural — and that true freedom, enlightenment, or spiritual power is found through sexual transgression.

Today’s polygamy apologists are not offering anything new. Like cult leaders before them, they package sexual license as enlightenment and rebellion as honesty.

The sexual revolution of the 1960s can be understood as a much larger cultural wave of the same desire. “Any way you want it, that’s the way you need it,” became a slogan of liberation, echoing the older Luciferian maxim, “Do what thou wilt.” The point was not merely freedom from social constraints, but freedom from moral law itself.

The LGBTQ+ movement followed this trajectory and intensified it by questioning the very idea of nature altogether. Gender was no longer something discovered or received but something invented by the autonomous mind. Reality itself became plastic, malleable to inner desire. If the mind declares it, then it must be so.

That impulse represents the more openly “liberal” side of the sexual revolution. But today we are witnessing what some might call a more “conservative” version gaining traction: a renewed interest in polyamory and polygamy. This, too, bears all the classic marks of rejecting Christian marriage — only now it does so in a more crafty way, cloaking itself in appeals to nature, history, and even Scripture. This camouflage makes it especially dangerous.

The first move modern polygamy advocates is an appeal to what comes naturally. Men, we are told, are not designed to be with just one woman for life. What is the proof? Male desire. Men experience lust for multiple women; therefore, monogamy must be unnatural.

This argument collapses on closer inspection. It amounts to saying that because men experience disordered desire, they should not be expected to govern it. Lust becomes its own justification. By this logic, no appetite — sexual or otherwise — should ever be restrained. Gluttony, rage, greed, and violence would all be “natural” simply because they occur.

Others dress this same claim in evolutionary language. Men, we are told, are merely advanced apes whose biological purpose is to spread their seed as widely as possible. This argument is simply an abdication of moral reasoning. If evolutionary impulse defines moral obligation, then fidelity, sacrifice, and self-control become irrational. Civilization itself becomes a mistake.

Proponents of polygamy then pivot to the Bible. Didn’t Jacob have two wives? Didn’t David have many? And Solomon more than all of them?

Therefore — what, exactly?

These are not normative examples for the Christian. Scripture never presents polygamy as an ideal. At best, it records God’s tolerance of sinful arrangements within a fallen world, never His approval. In fact, the biblical record consistently highlights the misery, injustice, and disorder produced by polygamous households. The entire account of Jacob having children with four women is an account of their contest and jealousy.

Most strikingly, the very man most often invoked by modern apologists — Solomon — is the author of Scripture’s greatest celebration of monogamous love: the Song of Solomon. The man with many wives wrote the Bible’s most eloquent testimony to exclusive devotion between one man and one woman. That irony should give pause.

From the beginning, marriage was instituted as a one-flesh union. One man. One woman. One covenant. When adultery occurs,it is not the creation of a new marriage but the violation of an existing one. Bringing in a third, fourth, or fifth person breaks the union between one man and one woman as the man moves on to the next woman. This is why God uses adultery as His primary image for Israel’s sin. The prophets do not praise Israel’s “polyamory” with other gods; they condemn it as betrayal.

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In the New Testament, Jesus explicitly reaffirms this creational order. Appealing not to cultural norms but to Genesis itself, He teaches that from the beginning God made them male and female and that the two — not three, not many — become one flesh. Jesus was perfectly aware that pagans often practiced polygamy.

Paul makes this even more explicit in 1 Timothy 3. As the gospel advances into pagan cultures where polygamy existed, Paul does not relax the standard for Christian leadership. An elder must be the husband of one wife. Polygamist marriages of people who converted to Christianity were not dissolved, but they were not held up as ideal in the place of Christian marriage, which points us to Christ’s monogamous love for his church. A man should have known better, even as a pagan, and thus Christian leadership was preserved for those who understood what marriage pointed toward from the beginning.

From beginning to end, the biblical story is monogamous. The Old Testament image of God and Israel gives way to the New Testament image of Christ and His bride, the church. History itself culminates not in a harem, but in a wedding: the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Christ has a bride — not brides.

Today’s polygamy apologists are not offering anything new. Like cult leaders before them, they package sexual license as enlightenment and rebellion as honesty. Like wolves in sheep’s clothing, they aim not at hardened skeptics but at the unguarded and naïve.

Christians must be better equipped. Know the Scriptures. Understand the arguments. Do not be deceived by appeals to desire dressed up as nature or sin disguised as tradition. The sexual revolution — whether “progressive” or “conservative” — always ends the same way: with broken people, broken families, and broken faith.

Truth, by contrast, calls us not to indulge our lusts, but to master them. The Christian marriage points us to Christ’s monogamous love for his church.

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The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services posted a video exposing alleged government funding fraud in Los Angeles, and the Democratic governor instead opened an investigation into the “racially charged” allegations.

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz posted a video on his Instagram account showing businesses in Van Nuys that he suspected were fronts for criminal activity and fraud.

‘Given the historic sensitivities involved, we are taking these allegations seriously. Any and all acts of hate have no place in California.’

“What we have learned, there’s roughly $3.5 billion of fraud taking place here in Los Angeles, in hospice and home care,” Oz said. “It’s run, quite a bit of it, by the Russian-Armenian mafia; you notice the lettering and language behind me.”

He called L.A. County the “epicenter” for health care fraud in America.

“Criminals have corrupted the system so much that fraud is now almost expected,” he added. “President Trump has made it clear: We will not tolerate the patient harm or taxpayer funded theft any longer. More to come.”

However, the targeting of Armenian business owners by Oz, who is Turkish-American, led many to believe they were being racially discriminated against.

Rather than look into the claims of fraud, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said he would investigate Dr. Oz.

“Our office is reviewing reports that Dr. Mehmet Oz targeted the Armenian American community in Southern California recently — making racially charged claims of fraud outside Armenian-owned businesses, including a popular bakery,” he posted on social media.

“Given the historic sensitivities involved, we are taking these allegations seriously,” he added. “Any and all acts of hate have no place in California.”

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Newsom was referring to hostility between Armenians and Turkish people over the 1.5 million Armenians that were killed beginning in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire, which is now Turkey.

Dr. Oz fired back at the governor.

“If there were a real defense for California’s fraud crisis, we’d hear it. CMS and law enforcement will keep doing the actual work: going after fraudsters, period.”

Garen Janbachian with the Armenian National Committee of America told KNBC-TV that the community was outraged that Oz was singling them out, and they denied allegations of fraud.

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If you were to turn conservative media off and instead tune in to the opinions of celebrities and the mainstream media, BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere points out that you’d realize that “the skepticism that you might feel about the media’s coverage of these types of incidents when we’re talking about ICE murdering people does not exist in most people’s world.”

“They see the video maybe one time. They see everyone posting all these things, and they just assume with 100% certainty that this is murder, and all these things were murder, and the Gestapo is out in Minnesota, and they’re killing everybody,” he explains.

One celebrity giving his followers the impression that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in fact the Gestapo is actor Pedro Pascal, who recently posted on Instagram a list of the nine people he claims have been killed by ICE in just 2026 alone.

“I bet you all of those people were not actually murdered by ICE. … So let’s go through all the names. This is going to be very interesting and maybe a little misleading. Now before I do it, I want to tell you there’s no way Pedro Pascal did what we’re about to do,” Stu says, before beginning with the names that are not Renee Good or Alex Pretti.

Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, was an illegal immigrant being detained at an ICE detention center. His death was ruled a homicide.

“This in theory could fit the post. … In theory, you could say, ‘OK, this guy was murdered by ICE.’ Maybe that’s true. And despite what I’m about to tell you, if that is true, the people responsible for that should be charged with crimes. That is how these things should happen,” Stu says.

“I will say, your sympathy factor for him may be slightly diminished when I tell you he had prior convictions, including sexual contact with a minor. So we’re talking about someone who was charged with child molestation … they don’t put that in the Instagram post though. They just put the name,” he explains.

The next name is Keith Porter Jr., who was killed by an off-duty ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.

“Well what if I were to tell you that yes, an ICE agent did shoot the person, but that ICE agent was off-duty, not working for ICE at the time. … He was in his home and heard multiple gun shots and believed there was an active shooter outside. So he went out to try to help the situation and saw a man with a rifle and wound up shooting him,” Stu explains.

In the reports on the story, it’s also revealed that “Porter’s loved ones and advocates say that they believe he was ringing in the New Year by firing a gun into the air.”

“Of course, shooting your gun into the air to celebrate New Year’s is a very dangerous act and also a crime. You’re not allowed to do that at all,” Stu says.

Parady La is the next name on the list, and he comes with a multi-decade criminal record outside of the fact that he was here illegally. La died in ICE custody while going through severe withdrawal from opioids and was found unresponsive in his cell. Attempts to save him failed.

Luis Beltran Yanez Cruz is also on the list, and he died after being admitted to a hospital for health-related issues. He had a heart attack in prison. The next name is Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceras, and he also died after being treated for chronic heart-related health issues.

“Then we have Heber Sanchez Dominguez … he was an illegal immigrant, of course, but he also was driving without a license. Is that enough to murder a man in prison? I don’t know. You’d have to ask him because he killed himself,” Stu explains.

The next name on the list, Victor Manuel Diaz, also killed himself.

“Now it’s possible we might find out later on that he didn’t kill himself and that ICE agents came in, grappled him, murdered him, hung him from his cell. Those things might be possible, and we might know them in investigation, but it’s obviously misleading and obviously wrong when all the evidence we have to this point indicates that some of these people killed themselves,” Stu says.

“Some of them had heart attacks,” he says, adding, “This is insanity.”

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While many on the left expressed outrage at the shooting reported near the U.S.-Mexico border by federal agents, the sister of the man shot says he’s “no victim.”

Very few details were initially available when the shooting 10 miles from the border was reported on Tuesday. One person was shot at about 7:30 a.m. and was in serious but stable condition.

‘He is no victim. He is a violent person. That’s who he always has been.’

The man was later identified as 34-year-old Patrick Gary Schlegel. Police said he had an active warrant for human trafficking when he was stopped and that two men rushed out of his truck after he drove away.

He eventually ran out of the truck and fired gunshots in the direction of a police helicopter pursuing him, which led to his getting shot and being injured in the leg and head.

Amber Schlegel, the man’s sister, told KOLD-TV Wednesday that he had placed many people in danger through his actions.

“To hear that he’s back running illegals again didn’t surprise me, but to hear that he actually fired at federal agents — that took me by surprise,” she said. “He is no victim. He is a violent person. That’s who he always has been.”

She said that she had already sought a protection order against him when he threatened her for speaking out against him.

“He’s where he should be,” she added. “Whether he recovers or not, he needs to be locked up for a very long time.”

Police said they found a handgun, a .45 pistol, and a cell phone in Schlegel’s possession.

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The two men who were in his truck allegedly told police that they had paid Schlegel to bring them across the border. One claimed to have paid $8,000, while the other said he paid him $14,000.

The man is charged with assault on a federal officer and had many other previous run-ins with the law.

“Schlegel has a significant criminal history to include an active federal arrest warrant issued in 2025 by the U.S. Marshals Service for escape related to a previous smuggling conviction,” said Heith Janke, FBI special agent in charge in Phoenix.

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