“I believe (and pray) their desire to become “mainstream” Christianity will force them to change, which is why I believe Romney’s running could very well end up being a blessing for the LDS Church and Mormons in the long run.”
Let’s hope you are right.
This Spirit world polygamy is perhaps closer to the crux of the matter than I have realized. Spirit children evidently come from continual polygamous matings, but with whom? Does each planets Father mate with his daughters? Or does his sons mate with his daughters? Seems unavoidable.
Careful, you are trying to carry LDS doctrine to its logical conclusion which can be dangerously impossible. LOL LDS doctrine teaches that every human on earth are the spiritual offspring of "Heavenly Father" and one of his wives. In that respect, we are all at least half-brothers and half-sisters. If you are a faithful temple Mormon here on earth, then one day you will eventually become a god of your own planet with your own wives (spiritual sisters and half-sisters). Where will your other wives come from if you only had 1 on earth? Don't know, but it wouldn't be your spiritual daughters. How can a physical person have sexual relations with a spirit? While LDS doctrine doesn't go in that direction, it does hold that God is a physical man and produces spirit babies by having relations with physical women. How physical relations produces non-physical, spiritual children has never been explained to me.
The only place in LDS doctrine that I'm aware of where incest is taught as part of the plan is with the "immaculate conception". LDS prophets and leaders have taught that Heavenly Father had normal physical relations with Mary, which produced the Christ child. This would mean that God had relations with one of his spirit daughters and that Jesus is the result. Now, you certainly won't find that teaching in the BoM and it won't be brought up much, but it HAS been taught as LDS doctrine. I once got into an argument with a Mormon who swore up and down the wall that I didn't know what I was talking about, and that it was a disgusting accusation. A few weeks later this person admitted to me that the topic came up in the Sunday School at the LDS Church and was explained to have happened exactly as I told her was the teaching.
You sir, are disgusting. Please take it elsewhere.