Not at all. If sex is irrelevant to civil marriage, then what is the relevance of number?
The LDS has set great store by the opinion of the State when it has suited its purposes. Witness the speed with which the eternal, unchanging doctrine of polygamy was discarded when the Supreme Court upheld its prohibition and a similar prohibition in the state constitution was made a requirement for Utah's admission as a state.
Witness again the haste with which blacks were admitted to its priesthood in the face of legal pressure, and the Book of Mormon expunged of references to a "white and delightsome people."
If surrendering to the homosexual lobby offers an opportunity to protect its assets and bring back polygamy, why wouldn't the LDS take it?
Not at all. If sex is irrelevant to civil marriage, then what is the relevance of number?
Polygamy is impractical to a lot of people, the mainstream Mormon church included, for a number of reasons. Once the wives figure out how to divorce you easily, you can have a whole bunch of divorces and tons of your assets taken by the court very quickly; gotta thank no-fault divorce for being a deterrent to polygamy. Then there’s the jealousy aspect, which happens even in polyamory, where people get unhappy because someone in the relationship becomes the obvious favorite one of them all. Plus there’s the cultural aspect that the Mormons have become spread out all over the place, after ending polygamy. By essentially ending polygamy, they opened up their own pandora’s box. Plus, if they did try to go to the compounds and incest way of living, the ever-increasingly powerful Mormon women would be lost, and they would self-destruct. They’re pretty much trapped. As for SSM, well the pressure is going to be on pretty much everyone for that one, each denomination which goes to SSM means more people ganging up on the rest of us.