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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89915 11-05-2012 01:17 AM

As much as I like him, Webster Tarpley Is a Russian agitator.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89915 11-05-2012 01:25 AM

Polygamy is barbaric? But two dudes butt f*cking and raising kids is normal. Check.

The lefts seething hatred for anything they seem as "abnormal" is reminiscent of 1950's white America just inverted to serve their own needs and interests. How interesting that things have gone full circle with the left being the fascists and the bigots in the paradigm.

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BJ lop guest User ID: 131766 11-05-2012 02:04 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Polygamy is barbaric? But two dudes butt f*cking and raising kids is normal. Check.

The lefts seething hatred for anything they seem as "abnormal" is reminiscent of 1950's white America just inverted to serve their own needs and interests. How interesting that things have gone full circle with the left being the fascists and the bigots in the paradigm.

Well, perhaps you'd rather have a proven racketeering rascal like Romney in the White House where he will surround himself with the Mormon Mafia types?

Public Records Reveal Romney Profited From Corruption, Fraud & Racketeering at Bain

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/public-recor...-bain.html

I just found out about it today:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014289470

**Xannixon**

Xannixon Wrote:

I used to know a guy that looked just like Mitt Romney named Richard Jenkins. I mean he looks just like him but Richard Jenkins was bald. I wonder if they are related?

I mean doesnt this deserve a chuckle?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 58069 11-05-2012 03:14 AM

A Pratt Wrote:

When the Mormon church says they have nothing to do with polygamy, they should add, "not any more" and "not at this time." Mormon doctrine defends their earlier practice of polygamy as God-mandated, still allows for multiple wives in the hereafter, suggests that God Himself may be a polygamist, and holds that God may someday reinstate polygamy. The book "It's Not About the Sex" My A** by by ex-polygamist wife Joanne Hanks does a good job explaining much of that. (Google the title -- easy to find.) Or read the Doctrine and Covenants (which the Mormons regard as scripture), Section 132, where God states that taking multiple wives is a commandment.

Who practiced polygamy, and why?

Modern folks aren't the only ones who feel uncomfortable about the idea of polygamy. When Joseph Smith first explained the doctrine of plural marriage to Brigham Young in the early 1840s, Brigham felt repulsed by it. Like Brigham, most of the early Latter-day Saints didn't instantly warm to the idea, but they gradually came to understand it as God's will.

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Why did the Latter-day Saints practice polygamy, especially when this deviation from what was considered "normal" or moral behavior so angered America's citizens and government? Here are some possible reasons, both theological and social:

God told us to do it. Period. Most Mormons believe that although they may not understand why, the Lord chose to institute plural marriage for a brief period in the nineteenth century as the Church was becoming established. The nineteenth century Latter-day Saints felt that they were practicing plural marriage in strict obedience to God's will and that the practice was divinely inspired. In fact, Mormonism still acknowledges polygamy as a divine principle that may apply in heaven, though it's no longer in practice on the earth.

It was part of the "restitution of all things." Mormons saw their practice of polygamy as similar to that of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They believe that their latter-day church includes, as predicted in the Bible, the "restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began" (Acts 3:21). That includes Old Testament polygamy.

It brought the Latter-day Saints together. Polygamy made the Mormons more cohesive as a people and gave them a distinct identity. Some plural wives were family members even before marriage (two sisters marrying the same man, for example), and the bonds of marriage expanded family networks. Also, the increased persecution caused by polygamy helped the Mormons bond together even more closely as a people.

It raised up a mighty generation. Many Mormons believe that one of the reasons the Lord may have sanctioned polygamy for a time was that it allowed the struggling Latter-day Saints to raise up a "righteous seed" of second- and third-generation Mormons to build the kingdom. Because of polygamy, Mormon families in the nineteenth century were able to obey the Lord's commandment to "be fruitful and multiply," sometimes having two or three times as many children as they may have had with only one child bearer. What's more, polygamy attached women and children to men who had made a strong commitment to the Church, because those men were the most likely to enter into plural marriage.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/un...story.html

I always thought more wives equals more children to baptize for the dead. Same with the wonky birth control rules. Lots of dead people before 1830. Best hurry up and pop 'em out so we can get to baptizin'.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 129260 11-05-2012 04:43 AM