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Morgana, I think it's *you* who doesn't "get the point".

It's nonsense to try to find significance by comparing the numbers in this way - ie, "86% VERSUS 74%! WOW! *WOW* DID YOU HEAR THAT?!"

If you take a list of hot-button issues and try to relatively rank them via a poll among any group of religious conservatives, your results will vary over time, up and down, up and down, depending on what's "in the news" at any moment.

Every time the media screams about the latest school shooting, polls show support for gun control spiking upwards. Then they settle down. The cycle repeats endlessly. It's because it's "what's in the news" today.

When a ghoulish abortion "doctor" is in the news, support for abortion immediately declines somewhat.

Now, most people on these types of issues do *not* first blow one way and then the other, but stay consistent in their answers. So the fluctuation up & down of the *overall* poll results are dependent on those respondents whose answers are affected by the latest news.

And when it comes to Mormons, the issue of Polygamy is always "in the news". They are constantly getting hammered over their church's history (18?? to 1890?) of polygamy. Every time a polygamist and his harem from some hick area of Utah/Ariz/etc get in the news, it's used to slam the Mormons. The late night comedians especially love this "twofer" of Religion plus Sex rolled into one. Even when no P-cult is in the national news, the issue is still "In The News" for Mormons ... *all* the time.

It's undoubtedly the one moral issue Mormons are the most sensitive about, because the rest of us will never let them forget it. So when they're asked their opinion on a set of issues that includes Polygamy, that one loaded word will stand out from among the others on the list, and set off a kneejerk reaction of "No! No! Never! Never!" among many/most of the respondents.

If a poll of evangelical Christians rated polygamy as more of a concern than abortion, I would be concerned. The fact that Mormons do so is just one big "Duh!"

“Every time a polygamist and his harem from some hick area of Utah/Ariz/etc get in the news, it’s used to slam the Mormons. The late night comedians especially love this “twofer” of Religion plus Sex rolled into one. Even when no P-cult is in the national news, the issue is still “In The News” for Mormons ... *all* the time. “

You know I figure with this Mormon and polygamy thing it’s kinda like this. They never really stopped with it they just went under ground. They tell us it’s outlawed so the rest of us leave them alone but I have a feeling it still goes on, in private.

Now really if these women are dumb enough to do that who am I to stop them?

Killing their baby in abortion however, that is a horse of another color.