Even if the mainstream Mormons could practice polygamy legally, they probably wouldn’t go back to the 19th century. We have spent more time as a monogamous faith than we did in polygamy. I don’t ever see the LDS Church reversing course. But you make a good point. Why can’t polygamists of whatever ilk do so without persecution? Maybe the Welfare Wives phenomenon.
We have spent more time as a monogamous faith than we did in polygamy. I don’t ever see the LDS Church reversing course. But you make a good point. Why can’t polygamists of whatever ilk do so without persecution? Maybe the Welfare Wives phenomenon.
Well the two of your creed which I met in person had no problem with playing video games, eating some fast food, and playing around with modern tech like computers and programming with them, heck, even you are an example of the last statment right there by responding to me.
Again, culturally, it’s probably weeded out by the way plenty of the kind have grown up. That’s probably the biggest weapon against modern polygamy... assimilation into pop culture. But then again, I do believe that people should be responsible for their own issues. Make sure the state doesn’t subsidize polygamy in any way, sort of like illicit drugs.
As a side note, polygamy is way less common in the Middle East than it was in the era of the Ottoman Empire, suggesting more to my hypothesis that modernization and wealth play a role in diminishing it.