Thanks - then the reason for marrying her is just to help with her support?
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Not at all. The men never help with support, that is what ‘bleeding the beast’ is for (welfare, food stamps, etc). Also the men get the money from whatever enterprises the women run, because they own it, women cannot own property in most of these groups.
The marriages for ‘time’ are because the women are property and designed to keep them in line. The threat of reassigning wives is to keep the men in line. It is all about control.
The attitude is described perfectly in this quote by early Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball (counselor to B. Young). “I think no more of taking [another] wife than I do of buying a cow.”
The attitude is described perfectly in this quote by early Mormon apostle Heber C. Kimball (counselor to B. Young). “I think no more of taking [another] wife than I do of buying a cow.”
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Heber C Kimball, a member of the First Presidency, had forty-five wives, but he claimed that in the resurrection he would be able to have thousands:
Supposing that I have a wife or a dozen of them, and she should say, “You cannot be exalted without me,”
and suppose they all should say so, what of that? ... Suppose that I lose the whole of them before I go into the spirit world, but that I have been a good, faithful man ... do you think I will be destitute there. No, the Lord says there are more there than there are here ... there are millions of them, ...
we will go to brother Joseph and say, “Here we are brother Joseph; we are here ourselves are we not, with none of the property we possessed in our probationary state, not even the rings on our fingers?”
He will say to us, “Come along, my boys, we will give you a good suit of clothes. Where are your wives?”
“They are back yonder; they would not follow us.”
“Never mind,” says Joseph, “Here are thousands, have all you want” (Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p.209).
Thanks - that quote is stunning!