Understanding Mormon Polygamy Pt 4-Polygamy: Wrong and Right

In part 4 of a 5 part series, Anne Wilde discusses the practice of polygamy in the 20th and 21st centuries--and provides examples of "polygamy gone wrong" and "polygamy gone right."

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[ayeshter]

hehe she acctually making polygamy sound somewhat enticing!

[whyuahater3]

I can only laugh! Divorced! Multiple wives! They will burn in hell! READ YOU BIBLE! teehee.

[DJAarmOZ]

I really am enjoying these interviews. It is one of the most detailed and candid interviews I have seen on polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormonism.

[Kin576]

I like this lady. I'm not a religious person, and certainly not a polygamist, but she is very interesting and seems very nice. A lot of the points she makes are valid, particularly the ones regarding respect for individual lifestyle choices. I suppose polygamy can work for some, but it's the abuse that seems so prevalent in a lot of families that I would find impossible to justify.

[DadsBlueAngel]

You mean Gehenna--it was a place outside Jerusalem where the bodies of the poor were burned. Some Polygamists believe in it. Brigham Young and the early brethren cussed and it has been used as Religious Abuse. Joseph Smith did not believe in it, and the LDS believe that only the worst criminals are cast into ''Outer darkness, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.'' It's far beyond any crime an ordinary person could commit. God alone may judge.

[DadsBlueAngel]

They'd be divorced or poor anyway.

The idea that eliminating polygamy

would eliminate poverty is absurd.

The land was sheeped out in the 30's

and if you're going through town and

blink you miss it.

[DadsBlueAngel]

I think most people on AFDC in Utah

need it. My housemate had it for she

and her 8 year son at BYU. She went

on to make a good living as a CPA.

[kraftymomma1979]

I will say this for her - she is a straight shooter. She says straight out that Warren Jeffs is not practicing polygamy correctly, that he is too much into the power.

[kraftymomma1979]

The FLDS completely denies "bleeding the beast," but they absolutely do it. There are paper trails. If a man wants to have all those children, he should be able to support them and not commit welfare fraud. I am glad I had one mom. I had older siblings, so I got bossed aplenty. I didn't need or want additional mothers.

[hhein01]

yes there was many in the o.t. but jesus when asked about this said that the two shall become one. meaning one man and one woman join. not one man and four or five women. and that is jesus's word.