How Many Mormon Men Are Okay With Polygmay? How Many Women

[_sock puppet]

The OP

How Many Mormon Men Are Okay With Polygmay? How Many Women

is nonsensical.

The only question that makes sense is how many women are okay with polygamy.

[_Zelder]

The OP

How Many Mormon Men Are Okay With Polygmay? How Many Women

is nonsensical.

The only question that makes sense is how many women are okay with polygamy.

I'm confused too. I wonder what he was trying to do.

[_Darth J]

Tell me something that was taught at the last General Conference that was false.

I didn't watch the last general conference. I did read a talk or two afterwards but I can't remember anything about it. Is there something in particular you thought was false?

Mostly the parts that had to do with Mormonism.

[_Quasimodo]

Really? You honestly think they compare?

Sure. They all had (or have) religious doctrines to promote and they all had multiple sexual relations with people that were not their spouses (seems to go hand in hand). All of them made a bundle of cash doing it. What's the difference?

[_just me]

I'm down with it. Who wants to join my harem? It's open to ALL sexes, genders and persuasions. It's more of a communal marriage than anything.

It'll be FUN!!! It will also be in Colorado...for reasons.

[_GR33N]

It appears to me that a few of you lack understanding about what you call polygamy.

[_Darth J]

It appears to me that a few of you lack understanding about what you call polygamy.

GR33N does have a point. Polygamy is a marriage with more than two partners. Since those kinds of marriages have never been legally valid in the United States, Mormons did not ever actually practice polygamy. Mormons practiced polyamory, not polygamy. And despite common parlance, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, et al. did not have multiple "wives." They each had one wife and several polyamorous partners.

That's why Mormons tried to get the U.S. Supreme Court to redefine marriage to include polygamy.

Thanks for the clarification, GR33N.

[_Sethbag]

While rejecting the whole notion of women being "given" to men, belonging to men, etc. that inhers in the Celestial Marriage of Mormonism, I would probably embrace the idea of having relationships with more than one person, if that were the way it went. However, I kind of suck at it, so I would probably end up a failure as a polygamous husband. The relationships would be desirable to me though.

[_Fiannan]

Economic treands may lead to an expansion of polygamy:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... es/308654/