[Colofornian]

If the Mormons still practiced polygamy i think i would look at it different but they don,t. I believe polygamy is an issue only as long as it is preached and practiced as a religion and i have never heard any one publicly preaching the right for plural wives.

(a) A Mainstream Mormon leader -- Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie -- said polygamy would resume when the Mormon jesus comes back. (That is elevating it as a lifestyle...McConkie referenced it as a "holy practice")

(b) Mainstream Mormons do "preach it" so to speak within their policies, claiming eternal polygamy for men who marry multiple wives in their temples.

(c) Mainstream Mormons do "preach it" because its original "revelation" on the subject -- Doctrine & Covenants 132 -- was never rescinded.

(d) The "cousins" of Mainstream Mormons -- the fLDS -- are Mormons, too. And they BOTH "preach it" AND openly live it.

[ravenwolf]

(d) The “cousins” of Mainstream Mormons — the fLDS — are Mormons, too. And they BOTH “preach it” AND openly live it.

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One thing we can be thankful for is that they can not live it with out a lot of willing women.

Did you know that back in the late forties or early fifties i am not sure because at that time i was not concerned except that i remember that i wished i was a little older.

The German women were asking the American women for the use of their men. the headline was

American Women, may we borrow your men.

When there are a shortage of men or women either one, people can change their minds in a heart beat.

And i believe in days gone by it was that type of thing that sparked polygamy.

The difference in Mormonism is that it was not done out of that type of need but out of one mans desires who turned it into religion..