2006-06-13 20:55:24 · 4 answers · asked by Humming Bird 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Sigh, here we go again. Of course they do, Mormons have not practiced poligamy for over 150 years.
Plural marriage was taught and practiced in the Church for a relatively brief period. Joseph Smith received the revelation about plural marriage as early as 1831 in answer to his inquiry concerning the appropriateness of revered prophets and patriarchs who had more than one wife. Joseph was reluctant to introduce the practice and did so only after divine warning. He first taught the principle privately in the 1840s. The Church began teaching it publicly in 1852. Plural marriage brought public hostility against the Church and eventually federal antipolygamy legislation that stripped Latter-day Saints of their rights as citizens, disincorporated the Church, and permitted the seizure of Church property. Plural marriage challenged those within the Church also. Early participants first wrestled with the prospect and then embraced the principle only after receiving personal spiritual confirmation that they should do so. Studies suggest that a maximum of 20 to 25 percent of Latter-day Saint adults were members of polygamous households during this era. Again by revelation, Church President Wilford Woodruff issued the Manifesto in October 1890 announcing an official end to the Church practice of plural marriage. Since 1904, it has been uniform Church policy to excommunicate any member either practicing or openly advocating the practice of polygamy.
abstracted from "Plural Marriage," in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 3:1091–95.
2006-06-14 10:41:18 · answer #1 · answered by notoriousnicholas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are respectful and caring and loyal and take responsibility for family, you can be a good leader of a family and you'd have a very happy wife...no matter what your religion is.
If you're talking Mormon in the polygamist sense, then 'no' I don't think you can give your all to one woman, because your heart would be divided.
2006-06-14 04:00:26 · answer #2 · answered by stacey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are asking a polygamy question...as if you didn't know, it is so against the law!!! and not appropriate!!! Sharing husbands or even sharing wives...can cause a lot of problems especially emotional problems!!
2006-06-14 04:02:18 · answer #3 · answered by d4wn4j3sus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are no good mormons
2006-06-14 03:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋