“So you are proud of the thousands of women forced into plural marriages and squalor, who were considered by your prophets to be nothing more than cattle and personal property?”
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. All women are daughters of our Heavenly Father.
Yet sadly they don’t get to become Gods.
Seems a wee bit sexist to me...
Are you totally ignorant of your church's history that you claim to be so proud of?
Kimball (past lds prophet and president) always kept an eye out for romance. Brethren, he instructed some departing missionaries, I want you to understand that it is not to be as it has been heretofore. The brother missionaries have been in the habit of picking out the prettiest women for themselves before they get here, and bringing on the ugly ones for us; hereafter you have to bring them all here before taking any of them, and let us all have a fair shake.
Plural marriage... is calculated in its nature to severely try the women even to nearly tear their heart strings out of them... - Journal and Autobiography of Joseph Lee Robinson, p. 50
I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow, and if you want to build up the kingdom you must take more wives. - Apostle Heber C. Kimball, quoted in Jennie Anderson Froiseth, ed., The Women of Mormonism: or the Story of Polygamy As Told by the Victims Themselves, 1886; see Abanes, One Nation Under Gods, p. 295
- The Lion of the Lord, by Stanley P. Hirshon, pp. 129-130
Would YOU like being considered the equivalent of a cow? Thats how your prophets viewed you.