How did dating work for polygamist?

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_The Nehor
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Polygamy Porter wrote:
The Nehor wrote:I have only anecdotes. The one I am most familiar with is my great-great grandfather and great-great grandmother. In her journal she records him coming home from a meeting with the Brethren looking distressed. She inquired what was wrong and he said that if he and his wife agreed he was to take another wife. She records him saying that he wanted no other woman but her and that if he was to marry again it would be with her consent. After discussing at length it was decided that she would begin the search for someone else. She favored her sister and he agreed and they were married.
So then, based on the laws of the land, since this marriage was not a legally recognized union, your great-great grandfather and your great-great grandmother's sister were by definition "adulterers" ?

Any children that were the result of these two unwed people were defined as illegitimate or known by definition, as bastards.


Not according to the general pardon issued by the government after the Manifesto just prior to Utah becoming a State.
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KimberlyAnn wrote:
Gazelam wrote:
Things shrivel and droop as people age.


You would know.


Gazelam, why are you being such as asshole to Harmony?

KA


That, my friends is the million dollar question.

Why are you being a jerk to Harmony, Gaz?
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liz3564 wrote:
KimberlyAnn wrote:
Gazelam wrote:
Things shrivel and droop as people age.


You would know.


Gazelam, why are you being such as asshole to Harmony?

KA


That, my friends is the million dollar question.

Why are you being a jerk to Harmony, Gaz?


And now it's a trio of voices. How about it, Gaz?

Jersey

(Does it strike anyone else as odd that people around here insult those they perceive as being on the "other side" by making personal remarks about folks they can't see? )
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Post by _moksha »

barrelomonkeys wrote:
SatanWasSetUp wrote:It only seems weird because of "presentism."


So why were the early Saints persecuted?


Pastism
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Post by _Blixa »

moksha wrote:
barrelomonkeys wrote:
SatanWasSetUp wrote:It only seems weird because of "presentism."


So why were the early Saints persecuted?


Pastism


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Re: Harmony

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Jersey Girl wrote:(Does it strike anyone else as odd that people around here insult those they perceive as being on the "other side" by making personal remarks about folks they can't see? )


Yes, it does.
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Post by _Pokatator »

Excellent comment Moksha. LOL

Gaz totally uncalled for.
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Re: Harmony

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barrelomonkeys wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:(Does it strike anyone else as odd that people around here insult those they perceive as being on the "other side" by making personal remarks about folks they can't see? )


Yes, it does.


Oh good, I thought it was just me. harmony makes a generalized remark about aging. Gaz says "you would know"....now where exactly does that come from?

Ageism?
Disdain for harmony?
Denial?
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Re: Harmony

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Jersey Girl wrote:
barrelomonkeys wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:(Does it strike anyone else as odd that people around here insult those they perceive as being on the "other side" by making personal remarks about folks they can't see? )


Yes, it does.


Oh good, I thought it was just me. harmony makes a generalized remark about aging. Gaz says "you would know"....now where exactly does that come from?

Ageism?
Disdain for harmony?
Denial?


I believe it is disdain for harmony.
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Post by _Blixa »

..or pastism.
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