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To: Spiff
You might call him a fundamentalist polygamist or something like that, but Mormon would not be an appropriate label.
It's good to see that you parrot the 'official' party line!

This is the same stuff that gets sent to the media, illustrating how the LDS organization would like (respectfully, of course) these 'people' be described in the print or TV-radio.

419 posted on 12/22/2003 3:34:16 PM PST by Elsie (When the avalanche starts... it's too late for the pebbles to vote....)
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To: Elsie
It's good to see that you parrot the 'official' party line! This is the same stuff that gets sent to the media, illustrating how the LDS organization would like (respectfully, of course) these 'people' be described in the print or TV-radio.

Cut the crap. It is stated and restated because it is true. That you imagine some grand conspiracy by every member of the LDS Church to hide polygamists is just plain retarded. One would hope that you were more intelligent. I suspect, however, that you're simply being obtuse.

Again, no quarter is given to polygamists in the Church today. If you marry an extra wife, not only are you sadistic but you're also excommunicated immediately.

And, another thing, that anyone imagines that Mormons in the past could just marry any and every woman willy-nilly is just being ignorant. For one, a man had to be called by the Church leadership to take an additional wife. Taking an additional wife without being commanded to do so would lead to excommunication. Second, the first wife had to agree to any additional wives. No agreement - no additional wife. Third, no one really liked the doctrine - as you can imagine. It was very, very hard to accept and to practice. The very idea of having to go to my wife and tell her that I've been called to find an additional wife brings me mortal fear. Finally, fantastical ideas of multi-wife orgies are just the products of dirty minds - that is not how it happened.

428 posted on 12/22/2003 3:45:13 PM PST by Spiff (Have you committed a random act of thoughtcrime today?)
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