New book chronicles early polygamy among Mormons

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The early polygamy has been known for quite a while. It’s what got the LDS in trouble with the government.
 
Looks like a good read. There is much misinformation out there about Mormon polygamy, much of it maintained by Mormons themselves. My LDS brother, like so many other LDS, insists that only “a handful” of LDS ever participated in polygamy. All my LDS relatives deny that Joseph Smith and other early LDS married women that were already married to other men. They say that I’ve been deceived by anti-Mormons. :hypno: Even though their own church history documents the facts, they won’t believe it (not that they’ve ever read History of the Church).
 
Paul, I find all the denial interesting (although I don’t have any Mormon ancestors, polygamous or non-polygamous) but what I really find fascinating is that Mormons don’t tell people that they still believe in polygamy, just not here on the earth. It is supposed to be practiced in the Celestial Kingdom, so it’s still practice that is accepted by the LDS church.
 
Polygamy is still a doctrine of the LDS Church. It is not a doctrine that is practiced at this time, but you never know, the Mormon god just might fire it up again anytime.
 
RebeccaJ said:
Polygamy is still a doctrine of the LDS Church. It is not a doctrine that is practiced at this time, but you never know, the Mormon god just might fire it up again anytime.
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So, if they do, do we get to expel them from the Union? 😃
 
MelanieAnne said:
So, if they do, do we get to expel them from the Union? 😃
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It will probably be legal along with gay marriage within the next 25 years anyway. The young people in this country are beginning to accept almost anything these days – libertarianism is the wave of the future I’m afraid.
 
Here is an interesting tidbit from the article:

“I guess I was intrigued by the obvious forgetting,” said the author, whose research is largely based on documents and diaries held in the Mormon church archives.

The above quotation seems contradictory.

The book seems like a hack job about mormon polygamy. The tone that it sets is antimormon. And it will only get worse as the lds church makes an impact in American society, ie, proposition 8 in California.
 
why_me said:
Here is an interesting tidbit from the article:

“I guess I was intrigued by the obvious forgetting,” said the author, whose research is largely based on documents and diaries held in the Mormon church archives.

The above quotation seems contradictory.

The book seems like a hack job about mormon polygamy. The tone that it sets is antimormon. And it will only get worse as the lds church makes an impact in American society, ie, proposition 8 in California.
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Have you read it, or are you just randomly slamming something you know nothing about?

I think you know very well that just because something is in a Mormon archive, does not mean that particular something has ever been exposed to the world, let alone to the members of the Mormon church.

As already stated, so many Mormons do not know of their polygamist history, other than what they have been told by the Mormon church. The official party line is that “few people practiced polygamy” or “there were more women than men”, both of which are not supported by demographic facts.
 
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The official party line is that “few people practiced polygamy” or “there were more women than men”, both of which are not supported by demographic facts.
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The only official party line that might hold muster is “Polygamy had economic advantages to all of the parties.”

jonathon
 
BartBurk;:
It will probably be legal along with gay marriage
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Legalization of polygamy would probably simplify Utah’s divorce law to: “No divorce without the approval of the President”.
libertarianism is the wave of the future
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Libertarianism demands something that Americans have rejected — Freedom.
For those that are willing to spend the time, and money on the various legal issues, all of the legal obligations, requirements,and advantages of a marriage between a couple, can currently be legally obtained by a polyamour group.

jonathon
 
jblake said:
The only official party line that might hold muster is “Polygamy had economic advantages to all of the parties.”

jonathon
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Unless in the case of my greatX5-grandfather who died young, leaving 5 widows and a dozen or so minor children with no provider.
 
RebeccaJ said:
Unless in the case of my greatX5-grandfather who died young, leaving 5 widows and a dozen or so minor children with no provider.
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The younger men and the powerless men always lose out with polygamy. There are not enough women to go around.
 
BartBurk said:
The younger men and the powerless men always lose out with polygamy. There are not enough women to go around.
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We see that today in the plight of the “lost boys”, those teenage boys who are kicked out of polygamous communities like the FLDS so that they will not be able to compete with the older men for young girls.
 
PaulDupre said:
We see that today in the plight of the “lost boys”, those teenage boys who are kicked out of polygamous communities like the FLDS so that they will not be able to compete with the older men for young girls.
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And in Brigham Young’s time when missionaries were converting young women, and marrying them right off. The men in high places in SLC complained that nothing was being left for them.

Polygamy makes a meat market of young, single women and girls.
 
RebeccaJ said:
And in Brigham Young’s time when missionaries were converting young women, and marrying them right off. The men in high places in SLC complained that nothing was being left for them.
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Here’s an exact quote on that, from LDS apostle Heber C. Kimball:
Speaking to a group of departing missionaries… “Brethren, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake.” - Apostle Heber C. Kimball, The Lion of the Lord, New York, 1969, pp.129-30.
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You just gotta love ol’ Heber. He was also the one who said:
“I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.” - Apostle Heber C. Kimball, The Twenty Seventh Wife, Irving Wallace, p. 101.
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