(oh, I guess you already have)
By the comments from the apologists on these threads they have. Not that they are all from Utah but that's where their religion is centered.
The mLDS members look at polygamy with longing in their hearts. The only reason they can condemn the practice is because the United States made it illegal. If they were to condemn the practice as being morally wrong or evil (as this episode has shown that it is) then they would have to condemn the very foundation of their religion along with its founders.
The the mLDS members, the practice of polygmay was officially ended with the 1890 and 1904 Manifestos, but there is always hope that one day God will once again change his mind and that the manifesto will be lifted and the mLDS stick will be joined with the fLDS stick and togther they will be one in God's hand.
“By the comments from the apologists on these threads they have. Not that they are all from Utah but that’s where their religion is centered.”
I have been reading these threads from the start, and I do NOT think mainstream LDS Mormons make up much if any of the “apologists.”