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To: Saundra Duffy
Saundra:

I spent way too much time recently researching the issue of whether the LDS church teaches that exalted Mormons become gods over their own planets, populating them with spirit children born to Mormon women who have reached the Celestial kingdom. Turned out that contrary to what we're being told in the press, the official LDS educational materials for ages four through college, and the LDS celestial marriage manual are currently teaching that. It's even in the current LDS Gospel Doctrine. And in a doctrinal guidance issued by the First President (prophet) and the Quorum of Twelve (the disciples).

But you never responded.

You encourage 'ask a Mormon,' but you hit and run with blanket statements or broad 'facts' and don't answer questions. And you don't respond when people quote and hyperlink current LDS educational materials that dispute facts being presented.

Why?

Worship as you please. Just don't send me to lds.org and then go silent when I pull current LDS educational and doctrinal materials that dispute the current LDS 'party line.'

You realize, of course, just as one tiny fact, that while the LDS for the most part quit performing new polyandrous marriages after the second, 1904, "we really mean it this time," manifesto, the LDS Church did not require polyandrous families to split up. That would have been cruel. I agree with the LDS decision. Men with several wives were able to continue those marriages. There were polygamous families in the LDS - The Corporation of The President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - into the 1960s. The first First President of the Church who wasn't involved in polygamy was in 1945.

I can give you details, but I would really like to hear about this "well more than 100 years" stuff.

42 posted on 12/17/2011 4:22:19 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster; Saundra Duffy
You encourage 'ask a Mormon,' but you hit and run with blanket statements or broad 'facts' and don't answer questions. And you don't respond when people quote and hyperlink current LDS educational materials that dispute facts being presented.
Why?
Worship as you please. Just don't send me to lds.org and then go silent when I pull current LDS educational and doctrinal materials that dispute the current LDS 'party line.'
You realize, of course, just as one tiny fact, that while the LDS for the most part quit performing new polyandrous marriages after the second, 1904, "we really mean it this time," manifesto, the LDS Church did not require polyandrous families to split up. That would have been cruel. I agree with the LDS decision. Men with several wives were able to continue those marriages. There were polygamous families in the LDS - The Corporation of The President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - into the 1960s. The first First President of the Church who wasn't involved in polygamy was in 1945.
I can give you details, but I would really like to hear about this "well more than 100 years" stuff.

Good coverage of Mormon history...especially that Lds polygamous arrangements were still around into the 1960s...given that, indeed, plural arrangements were still being arranged "on the sly" in the early 1900s...

As for Saundra's hit & run tactics...rarely dialoguing...typical stuff.

Mormons make hollow claims all the time; when challenged, they fail to back it up. Especially on anything historical.

68 posted on 12/17/2011 8:00:18 PM PST by Colofornian (Mormon polygamy: It ain't just for time anymore...Lds tie the plural knot sequentially THESE days)
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