No way. Polygamy almost destroyed the LDS church once before. Had the Mormon Church continued to defy the U.S. government on polygamy, the church would have died. If the LDS church publicly tried to push polygamy once again they would cease to exist as a large church. Therefore, no Mormon president would ever try to legalize it. A Fundamentalist Mormon would, of course, love for polygamy to be legalized as they still believe and practice it, but no Fundamentalist Mormon would ever be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidency.
Of all the Republican candidates running for president, only one, was married only once to the same woman and that is, the Mormon, Mitt Romney.
I agree that if same-sex marriage becomes legalized nationally there would be nothing to stop polygamy, or any other form of marriage, from also being legalized. But I doubt that the LDS church would support any such effort given the severe backlash they would receive. Even if the prophet claimed a revelation from God for the church to re-institute polygamy, the church would get so much heat from without and within that it would end the Mormon Church as we know it. The only way this could happen with LDS support would be if Mormons controlled the presidency, congress, and the courts. They would have to have their own national theocracy like they had over the state of Utah during the days of Brigham Young and his immediate successors.
Right. The only difference between Mormon polygamy and atheist polygamy is that the Mormons put a command-of-God slant on it. The Mormons would be loathe to be associated with atheists, I’m sure. So not likely there would be any sudden “revelations” unto the prophet in Salt Lake City.
That’s just the Salt Lake City branch, isn’t it? What about the other schismatic Mormons who still practice polygamy here on Earth?
I’d love to have a whole bunch of women, not necessarily “wives” in the sense of a Christian marriage. I do think that men have a natural desire for multiple partners, while women generally are nest builders. Then again, men can also be very natural muderers, war mongers, thieves, etc. The multiple sex partner thing is just another carnal desire that needs taming so we can be a little higher than the animals. But, gosh, if I believed that God wanted me to have 15 or 20 wives, all pampering me, cooking for me, cleaning the house, maybe send a half-dozen of the better educated ones out into the workforce to bring in some money so I could dedicate myself to being a STUD, why, that’d be just fine. Especially if at least a few of those women were 'round about 18 years old… hoo boy.
I just saw a program on a Mormon sect, where polygamy is
Well, duh. But multiple wives?
We may’ve seen the same program. Was it focused on a school teacher who’d “married” a couple of his students? If so, did you notice also that neither “wife” had much in the way of education?
I don’t think it is possible. Any subsequent marriages would be invalid from the outset, so they wouldn’t really be wives.
The first wife is always married legally to the husband, the other wives are married in the church chapel by thier leader.
Not to mention that polygamy doesn’t seem as if it’d work, merely as a practical matter, The average man’s doing well if he can be a decent, supportive, caring husband, day in and day out, to one woman, let alone a half-dozen. I’d shudder for the wife who received a half, a third, or a fourth of my current time and resources. Instructive that polygamy tends to flourish in the sort of cultures where such attention is often considered wasted on the likes of women.