ajax18 wrote:Actually I lived amongst Polynesians for a time. Watch National Geographic and you'll see that wives being brought and sold are a part of nearly all the primitive/ancient cultures that exist today. Are you telling me that all sale of wives for cows in Polynesia originated from Mormonism? Secondly I never claimed to speak for Mormonism. How do you know I'm Mormon?
CFR please. Polynesians NEVER practiced what is portrayed in Johnny Lingo. I could recommend a couple of very interesting books on the anthropological study of Polynesian culture if you want to really learn about it.
ajax18 wrote: For Johnny Lingo it was cows, it's still the same thing. But you can only criticize the practice if it is a part of a caucasian culture. Johnny Lingo would have been off limits if he weren't Mormon.
First, I don't believe Johnny Lingo was Mormon. If he was Mormon, I think it would be fair to say that he didn't wear his garments.
Second, as set forth in the OP, my criticism of Johnny Lingo is based upon the fact that Mormonism is viewed in many parts of the country and world as being all about polygamy and treating women like chattel. Johnny Lingo certainly didn’t help dispel this myth. It would have been easy for the Church to make a film that didn't portray women as chattel, or that the value of a women is measured by how many cows she was bought and sold for.
You think the Church would do everything in its power to distance themselves from the stigma polygamy attached to Mormon women.