Do all mormons....?

Question

do this? Or is it just this one psycho sect.? (by psycho sect. i mean all other mormons dislike this group for making them look bad?)

http://video.aol.com/video/one-womans-escape-from-polygamy/1934531

Answer 1

you are talking about two different group. the Mormons stopped this a while ago and do not believe in it now.. the group that broke off from the Mormons are doing this get your fact right

Answer 2

The Mormon Church is actually The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. At one time, polygamy was accepted, standard practice by the church authorities and members because of practicality. When the Mormons reached Utah and applied for statehood, they were denied because federal law prohibited the practice of polygamy. So, after a few years, the prophet of the Mormon Church admonished the members to forgo polygamy in order to achieve statehood, because polygamy was no longer practical and statehood was a necessity. Utah was then made a state.
However, some members of the church did not care about statehood, or what the prophet said, and they loved their families and didn't want to give up the polygamous life they led, so they still practiced it, and some still do today, like the video showed. They are not members in good standing with the Salt Lake City Mormon Church, and most have been excommunicated. Some of them still call themselves 'Mormons', but they are not members in good standing and they can not go to the temple.
I do not dislike the people shown in the video because I do not think anyone judges me because of what someone else does. The people on the video are just people, and no one is perfect. There are two great commandments to remember : Love God, Love People. If you practice those two commandments, you judge no one.
Good Luck !

Answer 3

The mormons church practiced polygamy from the 1830s to as late as 1907, although "banned" in 1890. That's still a long time, and if one reviews the census records of early Utah, it becomes apparent this was NOT limited to just a small percentage (2-3%), but more like 17-22% - and this is from "Ofiicial Records".

The Fundie LDS church still maintains the doctrines, practices and teachings of the early Utah Brighamite church, so in essence THEY are representative of what mormonism is all about, not the slick glossy 2-dimensional postcard from Salt Lake.

This is a black eye on the mormons they'll never outlive; that and the 1978 'revelation' that blacks could be ordained to their 'priesthood'.

Both are groups are psycho when cornered (Utahns are always armed), so watch your back.

Answer 4

the video won't load but I saw the title so I'm assuming you're talking about polygamy. No, the mormon church doesn't practice that anymore, but there is a sect of the mormon church called the fundamental LDS that does.

Answer 5

This is one small group that practices polygamy for polygamy's sake. They say they follow Joseph SMith, but I don't believe that Joseph Smith EVER intended for plural marriage to be like what they do.

Answer 6

It's a belief that the LDS church had in the past but that has changed doctrine on and no longer promotes. Though, some LDS , like that sect, still live by it.but not many.

Answer 7

yes Mormons claimed polygamy is not part of church. But the founder of church Joseph Smith had 33 wives.

Answer 8

I hadn't heard that the church had set aside any of their scripture. If they haven't then this is what it says in the 132 section of the D&C verses53 and then 61-62
For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice.
And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
Then after multiple problem with the US Government the Church leaders came out with this:
To Whom It May Concern:
Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission, in their recent report to the Secretary of the Interior, allege that plural marriages are still being solemnized and that forty or more such marriages have been contracted in Utah since last June or during the past year, also that in public discourses the leaders of the Church have taught, encouraged and urged the continuance of the practice of polygamy—
I, therefore, as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.
One case has been reported, in which the parties allege that the marriage was performed in the Endowment House, in Salt Lake City, in the Spring of 1889, but I have not been able to learn who performed the ceremony; whatever was done in this matter was without my knowledge. In consequence of this alleged occurrence the Endowment House was, by my instructions, taken down without delay.
Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the Church over which I preside to have them do likewise.
There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.
Wilford Woodruff
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Now I ask you which "revelation" has the most authority, The 132 section of the D&C the "I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice." passage or the "To Whom It May Concern" declaration?... Jim