I can not figure out why the LDS church came out in support of prop 8. I honestly would have thought that they would have been more low key.
This is a great stepping point to allow polygamy again. The LDS doctrine D&C 132 requires that LDS members practice polygamy in order to gain entrance into the highest degree of glory. I also heard someplace that the vote concerning gay marriage passed with one of the smallest margins of any state in Utah.
I have already posted my stance on this whole thing. Short story is that I will abstain from voting on this issue. It has no bearing on my personal salvation whatsoever.
Read it again: D & C 132
This same section only allows those plural marriages, really polygyny not polygamy, by ordination of God only under the new and everlasting covenant of marriage.
Interestingly, the plural marriage part is rescinded here:
but the requirement for "celestial marriage" continues for the highest degree of glory, only now it is monogamous.
The LDS mainstream church will never again have polygamy. The "restoration of all things" purpose has been accomplished already.
Polygamy is a way to strengthen the family when women were in excess (e.g.men killed in war) or to allow the men sexual pleasure with another wife while abstaining so his wife won’t get pregnant too often (yes, there are prostitutes, but that makes it more likely to give the wife diseases, and infertility is one problem of STD’s).
Polygamy is actually biblical according to the old testament, but rabbis and European custom recognized that it made women unhappy and therefore men miserable, so it gradually died out before Christian times. The Chinese sign for “trouble” shows two women under one roof...so most folks saw polygamy’s problems.
Indeed, in modern countries where polygamy is legal, it is actually rare, less than 25 percent..
All of this is based on biology, that women need a man to protect them when they bear children. It is older than most religions, and has a biological basis (given to us by God or Darwinian evolution) that lets males and females split the work to enable more kids to thrive
Gay marriage however is based on the idea that family is a social construct, there is no essential difference between men and women, and that sexual pleasure has nothing to do with marriage, fidelity, or even bearing children.
Laws that ignore biology are utopian, and ultimately dangerous because they are based on a lie that denies the differences between men and women.