Part 2: Many Wives: Vows of Silence

[MsJgreen77]

Polygamous Women are Pringles

[mistycream2000]

this is people are not real christians they do NOT serve God they serve satan...

[farranspointon]

One of the reasons the mormons take many wives is so that they can have many children and the church increases in numbers and power. They raise the children to embrace the faith (right or wrong) & this is why there exists so many devout mormons. When the wife loses her appeal she is put out to pasture. LOL

[sweetlynumb86]

polygamy is some sick sh*t..

[momoboy2010]

mormon, reorganized mormon, palygamists...they are all the same. they all believe in the same practice. LDS mainstream claim not to praactice it, but still believe in eteranl progression to godhood whereas gods will have many wives; new and everlasting covenant. it's in their D&C

[orlovna2]

@momoboy2010

That's right. It is all covered, in their D&C, Section 132.

ODDLY, that section (starting around verse 60-65) gives the conditions for talking of extra wives:

the first, being a virgin, must give her consent to the man's taking of others, also virgins. It does not say that the first woman "had BEEN a virgin", but rather that she, "BEING a virgin", was to give her consent, to the adding of still other virgins.

It then says that, in doing thus, the man is not guilty of adultery

[maybetuesday1790]

Polygamy is all about subjugating women and children.Women and children are nothing more than human chattel.

[orlovna2]

@maybetuesday1790

One of the first polygamists (besides Jos.Smith) was one Heber Kimball.

Kimball--in Utah--was recorded as saying, once, that " I think nothing more of adding another wife than I do of buying a cow."

Sounds like chattel (and cattle!), to me!

[HipHopcheerleader]

Blood suckin' OLD BAT.

[fluffyviolet]

I think this religion is for the men who have to fuck all of the time

[orlovna2]

@fluffyviolet

Well, a REAL man has at least 7 wives! (Just ask the ghost of Parley Parker Pratt, if you don't believe me!)

[sswtn1]

I am not understanding why she was excommunicated or how she ended up with another husband.

[kraftymomma1979]

Did I understand correctly that Elizabeth had two husbands?

[wickymay]

Thats just creepy. when they showed a family picture, I was reminded of the movie "hills have eyes" because of how isolated they lived. lol

[queenlivesforever]

Great documentary, though! As revolted as I am by this polygamy subject, this is still a great, truthful expose of what goes on. Thank you for posting.

[queenlivesforever]

Great, a mom wishing that her newborn daughter would die because she wasn't born a son. What an awesome religion!

[MsPollywogg]

@queenlivesforever this is sickening to those in the western civilization, but according to sociological facts... most people worldwide prefer male children and there is a problem with people aborting female children in China

[evelina420]

the reason they make the women have so many babies is so they never leave - what is a woman with 0 education and 12 kids going to do? there is no way out... it's enslavement

[bbbask]

12 kids omg. That's putting your own body through too much abuse.

[LiberaMulier]

The abuse from child labor is nothing compared to the old men and the prophet do to these women and young girls and boys.

[bbbask]

good point, all the more reason they shouldn't be forced to be breeding stock to create new victims.

[DadsBlueAngel]

It used to be hard to raise even half of your kids to adulthood--this set the pattern.

Then the raids frightened people into having more

children for fear of losing them. Poverty and lack

of Education kept people to following old fashioned

ways. The Nuclear Testing was also a factor.

Two women with five children each might lose one

mother and a few kids to cancer. So the remaining

mother might have 9 or more. Twins married in Hiroshima. The USA blamed the Japanese

for cancer, lieukemia.

[DadsBlueAngel]

Actually boys started working at twelve in town--LDS boys--and they gave their money for their mom. An Uncle my age

started working at gas stations at 14, managed a garage at

sixteen. He was able to skim some money off the top to save for college. That was rare. Short Creek was poorer than surrounding towns, but many polygamous families

just blended in, especially if they had money and wore

regular clothes.

[gyrotaco]

This is facinating