Polygamy was “sex slavery” of women? Really?
Hmm. Remind me again where and when slave masters gave women the power to vote as the Mormons did.
Oh, and just in case you’re fuzzy on the history: Mormons gave women the franchise in 1870. About 50 years before most of the rest of the country, and only one year after the women’s suffrage movement started in neighboring Wyoming.
Mormon women were the ones who lit the fuse on women’s voting rights, and that’s one of the reasons why you see the first two states to give women the vote are in the west. The last states to give women the vote were on the east coast, with their oh-so-pious Christian sermonizing. They had to be forced by the 19th Amendment to give women suffrage. By that time, all the states west of the Rockies had long since done so.
Oh, and in case you’re further curious, women in Utah lost their right to vote in 1887 as a result of federal legislation passed in the further zealot prosecution of the anti-polygamy campaign of the time.
Remind me again where and when slave masters gave women the power to vote as the Mormons did.
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Sure I’ll remind you about how that falsehood was handled by the Mormon males
A mormon male would load all his concubines onto a wagon and take them to town on election day
so that if he had 6 so called “wives” he had 6 extra votes...
Standing over each individual woman, who probably knew little English because the mormon missionaries tricked so many young women from European countries like Sweden into going all the way to Utah where they were forced into polygamist relationships, and couldnt read if she did...
he and the other mormon males there would show her where to make a mark
Few if any women actually voted for themselves
It would usually be the way Brigham Young wanted the Mormons to vote..
BTW The “vote-for-women” didnt last long in the Utah Territory and it was years before women really got the vote in Utah
thanks to a Momma in Tennessee
Tennessee-got-er-done !!!
You think that America forbidding polygamy is zealotry?
Mormon women were the ones who lit the fuse on women’s voting rights,
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I doubt it
Women had a place in the Utah territory and it wasnt in a spot to have a say
The only ones lighting any fuses or benefitting from votes for women were Brigham Young and the other the mormon males
Remind me...Remember it was the males who had to vote to allow the women that psuedo vote in the first place...
and that fuse fizzled out real quickly...
Mormon women were the ones who lit the fuse on women’s voting rights,
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not a Mormon......
They had to be forced by the 19th Amendment to give women suffrage.
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As did the Mormon males in Utah
BTW In 1920 polygamy was still goping strong among the mormon profits, apostles etc...
Women were still property of the Mormon males
Ya really think mormon males wanted women to have a say in their own lives ???
In 1978 when pressure from the US govt caused the Moprmons to finally allow blacks to jopin a full members,
tyhe Mormon women light fuses and asjked to join to
They were called ugly names and shunned and astrocized...
IF in the 1800s Mormon women in Utah territory had tried to organize and ask for the vote they would have been treated even worse by Brigham Young and his cohorts...
Dont try to tell me that Motrmon males support their women in and type of rights for women...
even the Mormon doctrines to this day are sexist and bigoted against women...
When the Mormons get themselves a woman profit...
or eve3n put a woman in as one of the 70s..
then we’ll talk...
women in Utah lost their right to vote in 1887 as a result of federal legislation passed in the further zealot prosecution of the anti-polygamy campaign of the time.
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Kid if that were the case three years later in 1890 when the mormons pretended to end polygamy in order to become a state, the women would have got the vote back...
Try again...
Don’t forget Martha Hughes Cannon, which some pro-polygamy advocates have to bring as an argument to the table sometimes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Hughes_Cannon
Even wikipedia acknowledges her, strangely enough. However, my real issue with polygamy is the whole business that has been going on and on with associating marriage as something that everyone should accept. I find that notion rediculous. I don’t have to morally approve of what my neighbors do. As for some relationships, people need a few brief pointers about what is the rule and what is the exception. Thankfully, I don’t have to believe in any of the Mormon stuff about marriage, they don’t sue me for it, and I am fine with that.