Polygamy Porter wrote:Take the tap shoes off charity.
Are the Mormon god's laws above the laws of the land? If so, why did Woodruff bow to the demands of the US government and abandon the practice of polygamy?
Do you not understand that the Church was in the position of breaking one law or the other until something changed? Now if you think God should have sent fire down from Heaven and consumed the Supreme Court, isn't that a different discussion from this one?
Polygamy Porter wrote:Take the tap shoes off charity.
Are the Mormon god's laws above the laws of the land? If so, why did Woodruff bow to the demands of the US government and abandon the practice of polygamy?
Do you not understand that the Church was in the position of breaking one law or the other until something changed? Now if you think God should have sent fire down from Heaven and consumed the Supreme Court, isn't that a different discussion from this one?
Why not? He, after all, had Elijah slay the priests of Baal who got in his way. He killed the Egyptian army so that Moses could escape. He drown millions of his children because he was pissed off at them. He likewise either burnt, buried, or drown untold thousands of his children in the Americas because he was likewise not pleased with them. He had Nehpi cut off Laban's head. He commanded Saul to murder every man, woman, and child of conquered cities. God has a very well established record of killing people who displease him or get in his way. Why not the Supreme Court?
Perhaps in the interim, God's started taking Prozac or some other medicine to handle his wild, murderous mood swings.
Or, do those sort of things only happen in fairy tales?
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."
I suppose I did not understand Charity's initial remark. Is there a crowd still championing polyandry? I thought this practice was long abandoned, except possibly on the pages of our own off topic forum.
charity wrote:A genetic testing lab just released data that according to DNA testing, Mosiah Hancock and Oliver Buell, the darlings of the polyandry crowd, are definately NOT Joseph Smith's offspring.
Charity, a question.
Which would be more disturbing to you? To learn that Joseph Smith had sex with his wives? Or to learn that he didn't?
It's unclear to me why anyone defending Joseph Smith or the church he organized would think sexless marriage was a good thing, or be celebrating any possible evidence that might indicate that his relationships with "wives" was entirely platonic.
The road is beautiful, treacherous, and full of twists and turns.