Question for/about Mormons?

Question

How does that work with all the "extra" wives? Don't they get jealous of one another.....isn't one woman enough?

Answer 1

Mormons today don't have more than one wife.

From 1843 to about 1890, there were about 3% of the men in the Mormon church that participated in what was called 'plural marriage'. This was done as a special 'calling', mostly to allow widowed women (from wars or attacks) to be taken care of. Many of them were married by name only, without any physical or sexual relations.

A plural marriage was entered into only with the consent of the first wife and was only allowed when the family was financially stable enough to take care of a second family (in the case of a widow with children) or a second wife (in the case of young ladies who had gone unmarried well into their twenties).

After the Mormon church discontinued the practice of plural marriages, many smaller groups (most of whom still call themselves 'mormons' but are completely disenfranchised from the LDS church) split off and started their own churches. One of these churches is the Fundamental LDS (FLDS) church. Another is the "Church of Mormon", and yet a third is "The Church of the Mormons".

These churches generally still practice polygamy in secret and call it a general law of God. It is believed by most of them that a man must have 3 wives to get to heaven. Young boys who are caught committing even the mildest delinquent act are excommunicated and banned from the community to keep the man-woman ratio in check.

Another means of making sure that there are enough women to go around is to marry them off earlier. They will sometimes marry as early as 13 or 14, whereas a man will usually be 25 or so before he marries for the first time. These marriages are often arranged, and although some wives sometimes get jealous, the communities are secluded and private, and the people have grown up with the expectation that marriages would be that way. It is just normal to them.

Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS church, was recently arrested for being an accessory to an unconsented underage marriage (and hence sexual activity) with a young girl and her second cousin. He is waiting to stand trial.

Answer 2

true mormons don't do plural marriage. the ones that do are off shoots of the real LDS church. we stopped that because we didn't need it anymore. we needed it at one time because when the pioneers were crossing the plains, many husbands died. that left the wives alone. in the 1800's women were considered property and couldn't own anything. the LDS church didn't agree with that but, seeing as though the women needed looking after, the heads of the LDS church would pray about it and then appoint a man with the means to take the widow and her children in. when that practice was outlawed, the LDS church obeyed because we belive in obeying the law of the land. sorry the answer is so long.

Answer 3

I am sure the multiple wife supporting women are into that thing enough to not get Jealous, as some are trained from birth to be that way (and often not too old when they start joining in as a wife as well..)

Answer 4

Talk about gluttons for punishment, more than one wife is Moronic. That sounds like hell on earth. Marriage to one woman is too much for most men, but multiple wives simultaniously sounds like a form of torture a mid-evil Christian would have designed during the dark ages. What, burning a heritic at the stake isn't painful enough, we need a really harsh punishment, lets make this guy marry three or four women and let them nag him to death.

No wonder the word "Moron" comes to mind, and angel John Smith claimed to speak to was called "Moroni". The was not angel, the devil made him do it.

Answer 5

They may not practice it now but they believe they will in the next life,if they want a shot at the Celestial Kingdom.So in answer to your question, no one woman isn't enough for them.

Answer 6

Sometimes one wife is too much to handle.