RE: Why emphasise on monogamy?
June 27, 2016 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 10:39 pm by vorlon13.)
The Mormon take on it is bewilderingly confusing.
The Book of Mormon condemns the practice of having multiple wives. Then Joe Smith subsequently to writing the book of Mormon had the revelation from God allowing multiple wives and it was to to be specific to only taking Native American ones subsequent to the first one. (not that Joe apparently ever did, he had many wives, but none were Native American) This constraint was viewed as a non-starter by the other men in leadership positions (Brigham Young, for example, tried 2, but found them lacking and abandoned them in Council Bluffs Iowa prior to heading to Salt Lake).
Additionally. it was a matter of negotiation (not revelation) (GASP!!) how having extra wives was going to actually work out in the Mormon world. The starting position was going to be modeled strictly on the Old Testament teachings and restrictions, but immediately there was a problem as the OT forbids a husband marrying a mother AND her daughter and it turns out, this was already occurring. Additionally, the OT forbid the marrying of sisters, and as it turns out, this was also already occurring. I'm pretty sure, in fact, several of the Mormon poobahs were doing both. So the OT requirements had to be changed. There were also some complications regarding women who were already married to 'lower tier' Mormon males and their desirability to the higher status Mormon males becoming apparent, so their existing marriages needed to be dissolved as a given woman could not be married to 2 men at the same time.
And then in exchange for Utah statehood, the multiple wifey thing had to be done in secret while publicly maintaining it had been stopped. And then at some point the secret marriages had to be suspended too.
Anyhow, this is their evolution of defining 'marriage for time'. Celestial marriages are another thing entirely.
I hope you all find Mormon opposition to same sex marriage in light of their manifest clusterfuck trying to get marriage defined correctly just in their own church as funny as I do.
Except when I'm totally pissed off about it . . . .
The Book of Mormon condemns the practice of having multiple wives. Then Joe Smith subsequently to writing the book of Mormon had the revelation from God allowing multiple wives and it was to to be specific to only taking Native American ones subsequent to the first one. (not that Joe apparently ever did, he had many wives, but none were Native American) This constraint was viewed as a non-starter by the other men in leadership positions (Brigham Young, for example, tried 2, but found them lacking and abandoned them in Council Bluffs Iowa prior to heading to Salt Lake).
Additionally. it was a matter of negotiation (not revelation) (GASP!!) how having extra wives was going to actually work out in the Mormon world. The starting position was going to be modeled strictly on the Old Testament teachings and restrictions, but immediately there was a problem as the OT forbids a husband marrying a mother AND her daughter and it turns out, this was already occurring. Additionally, the OT forbid the marrying of sisters, and as it turns out, this was also already occurring. I'm pretty sure, in fact, several of the Mormon poobahs were doing both. So the OT requirements had to be changed. There were also some complications regarding women who were already married to 'lower tier' Mormon males and their desirability to the higher status Mormon males becoming apparent, so their existing marriages needed to be dissolved as a given woman could not be married to 2 men at the same time.
And then in exchange for Utah statehood, the multiple wifey thing had to be done in secret while publicly maintaining it had been stopped. And then at some point the secret marriages had to be suspended too.
Anyhow, this is their evolution of defining 'marriage for time'. Celestial marriages are another thing entirely.
I hope you all find Mormon opposition to same sex marriage in light of their manifest clusterfuck trying to get marriage defined correctly just in their own church as funny as I do.
Except when I'm totally pissed off about it . . . .
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