If they actually passed laws allowing gay marriage, that would be one step closer to re-enstating polygamous marriages.
2007-06-29 20:26:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
haha, I thought you said "why would morons actually oppose gay marraige"
made me think, ya, stupid conservative morons. haha
2007-06-29 20:32:26 · answer #1 · answered by Go Leafs Go 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm Mormon and I don't see your point. Someone hear has already actually given a good answer to your question. We only practiced polygamy because after the trek to Utah many men died leaving women to care for the family alone so men would take in multiple wives. They ended that forever ago however. I do believe gay marriage should be allowed, not because I agree with it but because our government is supposed to separate church and state. Seeing as gay marriage doesn't hurt the government I don't see why it's a problem. It is immoral but that has nothing to do with it. They should be able to be untied by law but as far as marriages in churches go, I think that's pushing it too far.
2007-06-30 07:41:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does gay marriage = polygamous marriages?
I can see where someone would argue that gay marriage takes a way from marriage between a man and a woman so that compromises the integrity of marriage. But it still keeps marriage between TWO people who love eachother.
A gay person marries ONE other gay person. They don't marry 5 other gay people.
2007-06-29 20:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by a.lane 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cause it's an oxymoron.
Marriage is the lifelong (supposed to be) union of a MAN and a WOMAN.
There is no such thing as a gay marriage.
By the way, the mormon polygamist marriages were a matter of survival. A woman couldn't live on her own so when her husband died she married another. That's why it has gone by the wayside in most mormon communities because a woman can live on her own much easier.
2007-06-29 20:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by T-22<> 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Polygamous marriages were allowed for the increased procreation averages in having more than one wife. Gay couples (men+men, women+women) can not procreate...so the point is moot.
Besides, homosexuality is an aberrant sexual preference that God considers an abomination. Homosexuality does not further mankind nor does it insure that mankind survives. Homosexuality destroys the present & future hopes of a bloodline and/or family.
2007-06-29 20:39:33 · answer #5 · answered by faith 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What if the Mormons won the right to polygamous marriage AND the state of Utah legalized gay marriage?
Now THAT would be poetic justice.
2007-06-29 20:31:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
1 Corinthians 6: 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
That's from the Bible. Marriage is between a man and a woman.
2007-06-30 06:33:46 · answer #7 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly, then I could marry my Corvette and claim her as an exemption. Also, I could itemize the insurance premiums, the gas, the quarterly maintenance etc... D**n Mormons!!
2007-06-29 20:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you figure that? What's gay marriage to do with polygamy? I don't like either, but to each his own.
2007-06-29 20:31:06 · answer #9 · answered by ToolManJobber 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Monogamy doesn't lead to polygamy. Why are you fascinated?
2007-06-29 20:36:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋