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To: Colofornian

Guess that marriage isn’t going anywhere.


23 posted on 05/09/2015 1:24:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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Guess that marriage isn’t going anywhere.

Yup.

What's interesting, tho, is for twice or thrice-married Mormons who are fully accepted as fellow Mormons in good standing.

And I'm not even talking about divorced Mormons...rather, widowed ones.

Mormons talk about how a polygamous Lds member would be excommunicated if they engaged in polygamy on earth turf.

But, take a Mormon guy whose wife died.

He may take a second wife & be married to her in the Mormon temple (supposedly "for eternity"). And he may also have his second wife (or another woman)sit in as a proxy for his first wife and be sealed to her "for eternity" as well!

If the guy makes it to the top level of Mormon heaven, he, too, can become an eternal polygamist...minus all this public relations contemporary Mormon frowning upon polygamy.

Hence, most Mormons are outright hypocrites on this particular issue:

They condemn current polygamy...
...but not future polygamy.
And when you talk to them about Mormon past polygamy, they tend to be rather ambivalent about it.

Some hedge and haw.
Some are critical of it being practiced.
Many actually defend it, becoming apologists for it.

25 posted on 05/09/2015 1:35:08 PM PDT by Colofornian
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