Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Well, I think one reason why is there's a "love-hate" relationship by LDS with polygamy. The "hate" part is...
...the reputation it emits;
...the reminder that their ancestors were part of an overt law-breaking sub-culture--often using intentional deception in the 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s to continue its practice;
...the overt linkage it establishes with the fLDS;
...and the eternal light it shines on a part of their "Scripture" (D&C 132)-- a part's neon light which was supposed to have been turned off & rendered moot in 1890--but hasn't been.
Contemporary Mormons' "love" affair with polygamy is that they believe most or all of those 19th century & early 20th century LDS polygamists are still alive & are still practicing polygamy in the celestial kingdom...plus any contemporary LDS who were serially married to women & who were sealed to each in the temple "for eternity" would likewise, under this belief, be eternal polygamists!!! [There's just no escaping polygamy for the mainstream Mormon church!!!]
Look at how Mitt Romney was "Poster Boy" for exemplifying this "love-hate" relationship with polygamy. On the one hand, his great-grandfather (not great-great grandfather as he was quoted below), was a polygamous man who married his fifth wife 7 years after the LDS "prophet" publicly said, "No more new plural marriages." So how did Mitt respond to CBS last year on the campaign trail? (He said polygamy was "awful"):
"I have a great-great grandfather. They were trying to build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional wives as he was told to do," Romney...said..."And I must admit I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy."
The "love" part, of course, comes, in that who can fail to stop loving their family & relatives?
But the "love-hate" relationship of polygamy is inherent in the very core of the practice. Joseph Smith's 14-year-old plural wife, Helen Mar Kimball, said at first she "hated" polygamy. It was often the case that the earlier wives would resent the add-on wives. It locked the ugly reality of jealousy into the very nature of the relationship!
Take a look at Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, who took his 5th wife, Millie Eyring Snow, in 1897 at the age of 54. According to an author whose ancestors were polygamists, "Millie Snow was a widow of Erastus Snow, had considerable monehy, and was resented by first four wives because of husband's attention of her." (Solemn Covenant, B. Carmon Hardy, appendix)
Imagine being the women marrying Miles Park Romney...Hannah, who is his same age, 19...but then 5 years later comes Caroline, age 21...then 6 years later comes Cathrine--she's 18, Miles is 30...then 4 years later is Annie--she's 18 or 19, Miles is 34. Then they all get established as a clan for 20 years--each of the 4 wives bearing Miles babies--only for yet a fifth (wealthy)wife to enter the scene & capture all this attention from the household patriarch.
BTW, like father, like son...one of Romney's sons was Miles Archibald Romney, who married all 3 of his plural wives after the manifesto which supposedly "halted" polygamy (1898, 1902, 1909). These were the "add-on" wives to his first wife, who Miles Archibald Romney married when she was 16 (maybe 15).
Is that true, all the women and children have been removed? The last I heard they were still trying to search the place but that was days ago. FR is the source of 99% of my news so perhaps this is general knowledge.
Someone give you a refresher course?
You reallt are not to sure yourself I see it in your post, but so long as it isnt’ LDS you will believe anything someone else tells you!
to me that is luke warm!
MHGinTN
To: restornu
Take a read through Matthew chapter seven.
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You point is?
No I do not know if they removed all women and children. I have just seen the news reports showing bus loads of women and girls being taken away “for interviewing’ whatever that is.
The topic of false prophets ...
We believe in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost they are one in mind!
Roman 15
6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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No, you dont believe in the Trinity...
And that scripture only mentions God the Father and God the Son...
That scripture is not about the Triune God being “one in mind”
You really should know for yourself so far I have not hear any of you telling me how you can discern a good one for your selves.
You like to talk about the Holy Ghost but refuse to trust yourselves if that is him or not!
Someone give you a refresher course?
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Dont need a refresher course
The Holy Spirit already told me that the mormon cult is not of God...
And that God believes in the Trinity...
And that’s why it’s in the Bible...
HA ha!
Joseph Smith and his two angels of light mock you; my dear!
Is it THAT arcane??
I guess I erred when I said HATE.
It looks like IGNORE or POOH-POOH would have been a better match.
What about other prophets such as Moses, when they receive revelations from the Lord?
Don’t they too say the samething?
Evidently St. PAUL didn't say anything worthwhile.....
You vile GENTILE!!!
How many times have you been TOLD not to DO that???
--MormonDude(Yer startin' to get me RILED!)
Yeah... sure...
Sure!!
That ain't SCRIPTURE!!
Who CARES what some bozo has said if it ain't SCRIPTURE!!
Are you trying to tell us what we BELIEVE again; Gentile?
--MormonDude(HMmmm???)
TWO of which have PHYSICAL bodies!
SEE!!!
But NONE of them has EVER show his face around any of OUR Temples!!!
--MormonDude(We are too holy for them to abide!)
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