Speculation on Polygamy...

[_Runtu]

I watched a few episodes of that Sister Wives show. Those people came across as really creepy. Bill Frost apparently agrees with me:

February 14: Keith and Lisa Brown, the parents of the Utah County classical-piano group The 5 Browns, are rescued after their car plunges 500 feet off a Little Cottonwood Canyon road. While recovering, it’s revealed that Keith Brown has been hit with several sex-abuse charges by his daughters; in March, he’ll be sentenced to 10 years to life in prison. In Nevada, Sister Wives husband Kody Brown breathes a sigh of relief that he’s “not the creepiest Brown from Utah anymore.”

[_harmony]

Similarly, I think the only difference between swinging and Joseph Smith's plural marriage is....a covenant!

No. Then, now, and even anciently, marriage is a legal term. Swinging has no legal repercussions. Marriage does.

[_consiglieri]

I believe God is not particularly interested in human sexuality,

Did someone say Prop 8?

[_consiglieri]

I never thought that polygamy was going to be permanent. I always believed that it was going to be temporary.

I know I'm getting in late on this, and apologize if this has already been hashed out, but this seems a case of presentism on your part, Why Me.

Certainly all the Mormons who lived before plural marriage was abolished thought it would be permanent.

Or am I wrong on this?

[_consiglieri]

The only ban is here on earth and in fact a man may be sealed to multiple wives still here on earth as long as only one is alive.

Actually, I am sealed to two women who are both alive.

My ex-wife refused to give her consent to cancel the sealing.

[_harmony]

The only ban is here on earth and in fact a man may be sealed to multiple wives still here on earth as long as only one is alive.

Actually, I am sealed to two women who are both alive.

My ex-wife refused to give her consent to cancel the sealing.

Depending on which side of the fence one sits, people are either cheering for you, or commiserating.

[_Zelder]

Similarly, I think the only difference between swinging and Joseph Smith's plural marriage is....a covenant!

No. Then, now, and even anciently, marriage is a legal term. Swinging has no legal repercussions. Marriage does.

So what? Swinging could have legal consequenses if adultery laws were inforced. Likewise all variations of non-monogamy could be made legally binding with the stroke of a pen.

I'm talking about different types of sexual relationships not about the laws governing what is legal or illegal.

[_harmony]

I'm talking about different types of sexual relationships not about the laws governing what is legal or illegal.

I'm talking about the rights of inheritance and property that marriage laws were put in place to enforce. And that polygamy really complicates, especially now, when it's technically illegal.

[_Quasimodo]

The only ban is here on earth and in fact a man may be sealed to multiple wives still here on earth as long as only one is alive.

Actually, I am sealed to two women who are both alive.

My ex-wife refused to give her consent to cancel the sealing.

Ooo! I guess you're stuck with the ex for all eternity. How's that going to work out? Does she get along with the present Mrs. consiglieri?

[_Zelder]

I believe God is not particularly interested in human sexuality,

Did someone say Prop 8?

I was wondering if someone was going to bring that topic up. I have not decided what I believe yet but am currently suspecting that same sex sexual expression might be loosely similar to the sin of onan. It's not about the act, but rather the unwillingness to fullfuill duties and obey commands. There may be a place for same-sex sexual expression in plural marriage. Who knows?