I'll be damned if I know how Mormons can excommunicate for apostasy. Jesus fucking Christ, how can they tell ?? And since literally day one, all but the most recent of their revelations, direct from God (!!!!), have all been received with errors, both gross and subtle, necessitating they all be revised, usually more than once.
Hell, just the Mormon take on marriage has been REMARKABLY changeable over the generations, originally one man one woman, then one man first woman Caucasian all subsequent Native American, then one man and first woman Caucasian and all subsequent wives Causcasian, then that one again EXCEPT it's SECRET this time and YOU CAN'T TELL ANYBODY, and then they are back to one man one (Caucasian) woman and you can be excommunicated if you're still doing any of the ones with more than one wife allowed, and then they keep that one and allow for marriage of a man to subsequent (Caucasian) women IN THE AFTERLIFE, then at some point they keep that version, and then allow Caucasians and non Caucasians to intermarry.
Probably will never be able to pin this part down, but in the early days of one man/multiple wives, they may have allowed some of the resulting surplus men to marry each other. This is one item I just have never seen verified. If allowing some men to marry each other would have freed up their wives for other men to have as subsequent wives*, I can see it happening, but even with the Mormons penchant for keeping records of all kinds of amazing things, this one remains unverified.
Mormon views on divorce have been 'fluid' too. Formal divorces were done, but to further expediency, at least at a certain level and above, abandonment of an 'inconvenient' wife was possible. Brigham Young, for instance, left 2 behind in Council Bluffs, Iowa, when he left for Utah. Yes, I would dearly love to know their names, what happened to them and what the current church leaders might say about their status.
Note: in the earlier days of multiple wives, the Mormon church was very vocal about following Old Testament strictures on the practice to the letter. Of course, by now, you must realize that Mormon church vocalizations about a practice don't have to reflect the churches actual rules about a practice, and of course, just because the Old Testament prohibits a man from marrying 2 sisters, or a mother and daughter, that didn't stop the Mormon church from consecrating such relationships.
*Church leaders at a certain level and higher were able to dissolve marriages between lower ranked couples if the wife was deemed desirable or suitable as a subsequent wife.
Hell, just the Mormon take on marriage has been REMARKABLY changeable over the generations, originally one man one woman, then one man first woman Caucasian all subsequent Native American, then one man and first woman Caucasian and all subsequent wives Causcasian, then that one again EXCEPT it's SECRET this time and YOU CAN'T TELL ANYBODY, and then they are back to one man one (Caucasian) woman and you can be excommunicated if you're still doing any of the ones with more than one wife allowed, and then they keep that one and allow for marriage of a man to subsequent (Caucasian) women IN THE AFTERLIFE, then at some point they keep that version, and then allow Caucasians and non Caucasians to intermarry.
Probably will never be able to pin this part down, but in the early days of one man/multiple wives, they may have allowed some of the resulting surplus men to marry each other. This is one item I just have never seen verified. If allowing some men to marry each other would have freed up their wives for other men to have as subsequent wives*, I can see it happening, but even with the Mormons penchant for keeping records of all kinds of amazing things, this one remains unverified.
Mormon views on divorce have been 'fluid' too. Formal divorces were done, but to further expediency, at least at a certain level and above, abandonment of an 'inconvenient' wife was possible. Brigham Young, for instance, left 2 behind in Council Bluffs, Iowa, when he left for Utah. Yes, I would dearly love to know their names, what happened to them and what the current church leaders might say about their status.
Note: in the earlier days of multiple wives, the Mormon church was very vocal about following Old Testament strictures on the practice to the letter. Of course, by now, you must realize that Mormon church vocalizations about a practice don't have to reflect the churches actual rules about a practice, and of course, just because the Old Testament prohibits a man from marrying 2 sisters, or a mother and daughter, that didn't stop the Mormon church from consecrating such relationships.
*Church leaders at a certain level and higher were able to dissolve marriages between lower ranked couples if the wife was deemed desirable or suitable as a subsequent wife.
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