Makes one wonder how much involvement the LDS has with the same sex movement, to justify their dirty polygamist past perhaps????
Getting married at 14 wasn’t all that odd at the time...
People got married much younger back then. 15 or 16 wasn’t uncommon.
That isn’t so bad....just as long as it’s just one and not 50?
Next move is to open the doors to polygamy and underage marriage. Bet Harry Reid is looking for a new bride already..
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet another similarity between islam and mormonism...
satan has no original thoughts.
the practice, which was eventually banned in 1890.
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no it never was banned by the mormons...
polygamy is still to this day alive and well.. in the mormons religious texts..D&C 132
Many believe that Mary was about 14 or 15 when she gave birth to Jesus. It was common at that time, and expected, because women had fewer choices about what to do with their adult lives then.
Well, he’s not as bad as mohhamed, he married his favorite wife when she was 9.
Ms Kimball was several months pregnant when “wed” if memory serves. The first Mrs. Smith separated from Joseph shortly before No. 2 “wed” him. Many of the subsequent “marriages” served to enforce his power in the cult. Would you challenge a guy who could take your wife away?
W R to the perception they are peaceful folk, there is a lot of violence among them, but the victims know silence is safer.
Define reluctant.
Ignorance is bliss and you must be very happy.
Thereby encouraging millions of church members to deny it occurred in spite of well-documented evidence.
In all fairness, with a few notable exceptions, leaders who marry many women do so not because of sex or procreation, but for “political” reasons. That is, by “marrying” the daughter of some powerful clan or faction, it creates a tie with that faction.
The assumption is that through that daughter, they will have a “direct line to the throne”. And to some extent, this is correct.
Marriages also work as informal peace treaties and alliances. It also means that the “first wife”, not necessarily numerically, is like the “chief of staff” of the other wives, and her sons are the heir apparents.
And yes, there is *lots* of contention between wives over their pecking order. Among the Mormons, either Smith or Young set forth very strong rules that wives had to be treated equally. This was almost certainly done to keep the peace.
The LDS leadership has folded its tent in the fight against homosexual civil marriage. It is now willing to acknowledge its polygamous history with something more than embarrassed silence and excuses. Perhaps the way is being paved for a new revelation to resume its practice?
Seriously, lots of people married early back then. My own grandmother married at 16 and it was not unusual. She had already finished high school by that age.