Missed the big one - both were founded by individuals with a predilection for multiple wives, and both (mirabile dictu) were belief systems that sanctioned polygamy (at least, in the case of Mormonism, in its original form).
If the Mormon church takes over the government you see the same sex marriage bill widen to include multi-wives. The more kids the embryo gods have on planet earth, the more power they have when they receive their very own planet when they die.
Religions founded by unsuccessful flaky males always go for polygamy, because that’s the only way they can get any. Joseph Smith was a fruitloop who got his start looking for gold through a “magic crystal” in his hat, and Brigham Young was sort of an entrepreneur who knew a good thing when he saw it.
The religion was an aggressive, vicious theocracy, exactly like Islam, and only backed down because of the US Cavalry...Utah could not become a state until it renounced some of the precepts of Mormonism.
It’s exactly like Islam. But maybe we could have Dueling Prophets, where Mad Mo and Joseph Smith face off wearing Mexican wrestling masks?
Missed the big one - both were founded by individuals with a predilection for multiple wives, and both (mirabile dictu) were belief systems that sanctioned polygamy (at least, in the case of Mormonism, in its original form).