Understanding Mormon Polygamy Pt 2 - Rise of Fundamentalism

In part 2 of this 5 part interview, Anne B. Wilde, a Mormon Fundamentalist and polygamist, discusses the phasing out of LDS polygamy, and the rise of Mormon Fundamentalism.

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[MzProgressive]

This was a truly interesting interview, skillfully done. Ms Wilde certainly has the courage of her religious conviction, and keeps what seems accurate oral history. There are, in fact, certain Christian "ordinations" in other groups, existing outside of what might normally be considered as "the Church."

[bubbiz99]

How can someone be so deluded? Poor woman. She doesn't know that polygamy only serves men and their sex lives. What planet do these ppl come from? But I am sure she will be with her husband and all his wives for eternity. They won't need to bring a sweater where they are going.

[snoopval]

She seems very knowlegeable but what do they do with the Bible, and all the verses about God, and not adding to scripture? To me I wish she was that passionate about Jesus.

[blugularis]

Bishop Warren Snow of Manti, San Pete County, although the husband of several wives, desired to add to his list a good-looking young woman in that town. When he proposed to her, she declined the honor, informing him that she was engaged to a younger man....he (the younger man) was one evening summoned to attend a meeting where only trusted members were present. Suddenly the lights were put out, he was beaten and tied to a bench, and Bishop Snow himself castrated him with a bowie knife.

[sammycatfan]

i think noah told his son ham and grandson caanan that they and their descendants were to stay in africa. giving them the priesthood does not change their lineage.

[LDStothecore]

There is much about the LDS Church this woman does not understand. For example, she said we no longer teach the gathering, which is not true. She said that we don't teach it, because people stay in there own country. The gathering has nothing to do with geography. It refers to missionary work and bringing souls to Christ.

[LDStothecore]

This lady separates the Priesthood and the Church.  You cannot have one without the other and she makes it seem like you can.

[DadsBlueAngel]

One of my earliest memories--I was under three, is of taking a trip up the Canyon with my Aunt Babe. She was quite old and had lived with her mother and had had 10 children there. I had a picture of Aunt Babe with her husband that my Grandma sent me. At the time of the Manifesto, which was a dream Wilford Woodruff had of how the Saints would suffer if they did not give up NEW polygamous marriages, men were not required to give up existing families, though many took them out of the country.

[DadsBlueAngel]

See comment on the Nevada Test Site.

Nuclear Testing with the help of

concentration camp doctors went

against the laws of God and Nature.

And its effects were not confined to

the Polygamous. If Open air atomic

testing was an added burden on the

taxpayers--I'm just crying in my

beer, metaphoricly.

[DadsBlueAngel]

Maybe so, but the early saints were largely

Celts, who had lived in stable villages and

Clachans where there was and had been cousin marriage for many Milennia. So the rates of

Genetic Disease was high. Given this situation

the Atomic Testing was no blessing. Many Polygamous wives cared for their sister wives

and their children in deep poverty because

they were afraid to come forward.