Would you like to be a Prophet? Would you send men off to missions, and then marry their wives to yourself? Why did Mitt Romney say that he thinks polygamy is "bizarre"? How can he believe in the validity of Joseph Smith, yet call a doctrine once deemed as inspired and required...bizarre?
2007-03-13 10:26:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Polygamy was never required for Mormons. In fact never did a majority of Mormons practice polygamy.
"Bizarre" is defined as "Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd." That doesn't imply anything about Mitt Romney's belief. I do and believe in things that are very strange sometimes.
2007-03-13 11:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by David G 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Before you go ridiculing someone else's religion you should check some facts first.
Polygamy was instituted because many of the women who were taken as second, third and forth wives were the widows of men murdered by people who hated the Mormons. These women could not support themselves and so they were taken in by men who could take care of them. Look up the Hans Mill massacre, see how Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed, John Taylor shot, many of the leaders of the Mormon church tared and feathered, for just teaching and living what they felt to be right.
Mitt Romney said that Polygamy is bizarre?
Well so is a 19 year old boy leaving his home for 2 years, to teach strangers his beliefs, and all this without pay!
Faithful Mormons also don't smoke, drink, drink coffee, or tea.
Isn't that Bizarre?
Is it bizarre that faithful Mormons serve for YEARS in the church every Sunday also, without pay?
Now, Polygamy was renounced by the L.D.S. church over 100 years ago. However people still judge the Mormon church on that. But they never know why it was needed. When it was no longer needed, it was renounced. Yes it was strange, but so is having you husband and children brutally killed because they believe in God differently than someone else.
All of this in a country that was founded on the freedom of religion.
2007-03-13 10:44:22 · answer #2 · answered by El Hombre de los Libros 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the polygamy goes both ways (which is fundamentally unfair)... in other words, the men can marry more than one wife, but the women can't marry more than one husband, so they wouldn't have been able to marry the wives of the men away on mission.
I think polygamy in general is bizarre, and bends the definition of marriage more than gay marriage does, but that's just me.
2007-03-13 10:31:28 · answer #3 · answered by teresathegreat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not like to be a Prophet. It would be a lot of work and responsibility.
Do you have any record of either man doing this? If you do, I would like to see it. I haven't heard of either Joseph Smith or Brigham Young marrying women after sending the husbands off. It is a new one to me.
Perhaps because it is bizarre. I myself would leave my husband if he came home and told me that he was taking a second wife, no matter who told him to do it.
2007-03-13 10:36:31 · answer #4 · answered by Dublin Ducky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You loose credibility once you make the main of such subjective words as "seduced them." you do no longer understand whilst, why, how polygamy grow for use interior the early LDS Church. whilst some plural marriages DID contain the procreation of offspring, plural marriages with Joseph Smith and another early church leaders did no longer. in fact, they have been performed in call purely, so as to facilitate a scared ordinance referred to as "sealing" the place the guy and lady are sealed jointly previous death. a call for interior the LDS Church for a guy or woman to realize the utmost degree of heaven, is they must acquire this "sealing" and this ordinance grow to be carried out in call purely so as that those women ought to acquire the requirement to go into the utmost point of heaven. you would be conscious, that inspite of each and every thing of the analyze, each and all the claims (and admissions as you factor out) that Joseph Smith did have plural sealings to others, that no longer EVEN as quickly as grow to be there each and every any declare of offspring, or the different evidence that those plural marriages or sealings have been ever sexual. there is not any evidence using fact grow to be no longer their objective. Their objective grow to be only what grow to be stated above.
2016-09-30 21:16:23 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer your first question, no they didnt. Men can have more than 1 wife but women can have only 1 husband. If the womans husband died and they didnt have an eternal (temple) marriage, she is now "fair game"
2007-03-13 10:38:27 · answer #6 · answered by Together 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a hilarious question! I think most christians are bizarre in thier own ways, nobody has the monopoly on truth anyways.
2007-03-13 10:36:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe the Mormon doctrine no...but I still find that most Mormons are good people (and only married to one wife).
jo
2007-03-13 10:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by Jodee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably. "Bring'em Young"?? I never heard that before and you make me laugh. I Need to Laugh too!! Romney is a politician. Do not listen to anything he has to say because he doesn't stand a chance in "Hell"??? @80)
2007-03-13 10:31:59 · answer #9 · answered by Dovey 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ironically, out of the top 3 Republican canidates, Romney is the only one who has married one woman and only one woman (Giuliani is on his 3rd wife, and McCain on his 2nd).
2007-03-13 10:38:03 · answer #10 · answered by daisyk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋