Ohio pastor reveals he’s had 2 wives for 3 years: Having only 1 wife is 'unbiblical'

Even though polygyny, the practice of having more than one wife, is illegal in America, Pastor Israel Ford, who co-founded LifeWorks Church in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, Lydia Ford, in 2009, told his congregation on Sunday that he has been living with two wives for the past three years and that God endorses it.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”