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Eternal Polygamy no longer allowed


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I have heard that starting the first of the year multiple sealings are no longer allowed.

For example if I a man is sealed to his wife and she dies....he has to get the sealing cancelled before he can get sealed to another wife.

The below has now been recinded.

Plural marriage is an eternal law. The Church never rescinded it. The Manifesto applied to earthly polygamy.

What is the reason? I have been told: It has fulfiled its purpose.

This is a big win for me personally since I have always denounced Polygamy.

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Documentation please.

The only way it could be completely rescinded is if all prior multiple sealings were considered canceled as well including any one done in proxy work.

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Go to the temple and do a sealing...that is all the documentation you will get. Sorry...the Church has no obligation to publish this new policy.

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Go to the temple and do a sealing...that is all the documentation you will get. Sorry...the Church has no obligation to publish this new policy.

I don't understand your first sentence, here.

Actually, they do need to publish it if they don't want the members to waste valuable temple time.

No one would want this to be true more than I would, but I am VERY skeptical.

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Go to the temple and do a sealing...that is all the documentation you will get. Sorry...the Church has no obligation to publish this new policy.

Whether or not they have an obligation to do so, it would be inconsistent if they didn't as there are instructions on how to proceed with sealings in the genealogy manuals. They will have to change these if this has somehow become invalid.

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I have heard that starting the first of the year multiple sealings are no longer allowed.

The church manual would have to be changed. If you mean this year then you are wrong because i was at the temple last week and performed a sealing for a woman who was sealed already to another man. (by proxy that is).

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Familyof4:

"Sorry...the Church has no obligation to publish this new policy."

CFR

CFR = ?

The Council on Foreign Relations. This is a deep conspiracy.

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"Sorry...the Church has no obligation to publish this new policy."

In other words, you can make any fantastic assertion you wish, then hide behind the Church when called to account. :P

If they fail to deny your unfounded claims (as if the Church would bother to responding to so insignificant a nuisance), your claims become "true" or "justified". <_<

This smacks very heavily of "when did you stop beating your wife?"

Come on, Family of 4- put up or shut up. Where's the proof?

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Oh, what nonsense!

If everything that anyone ever "heard" came true . . .

Seriously, the gossip among church members is just out of control.

Who cares about polygamy? Why does it matter so much to you that you would post what is clearly a rumor like this? Which do you think is more important, whether or not you believe in polygamy or whether or not you spread rumors? Personally, I'm going with the rumor option.

I guess I'm a polygamist, technically speaking. My husband, who I am sealed to, is still sealed to his ex-wife. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a rat's patootie! I trust the Lord enough to know that things will work out fine, and I don't lose sleep over this issue.

It's always funny to me how those who have such a problem with it are those who aren't involved in anything to do with it. Those of us who are just really don't care.

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Start of 2007, this is what I was told. No one else has had this told to them?

Nope.

Who was your source? Who was their source?

I've done quite a bit of temple work and this would be a MAJOR paradigm shift.

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Start of 2007, this is what I was told. No one else has had this told to them?

who told you?

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I have heard that starting the first of the year multiple sealings are no longer allowed.

The church manual would have to be changed. If you mean this year then you are wrong because i was at the temple last week and performed a sealing for a woman who was sealed already to another man. (by proxy that is).

So, she was sealed to two men? Did I misunderstand? I didn't think that was allowed.

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So, she was sealed to two men? Did I misunderstand? I didn't think that was allowed.

It is allowed if the woman is deceased and was legally married to more than one man during her lifetime (such as if she her husband died and she remarried).

She is sealed to both husbands because no one would know which one she would choose to spend eternity with.

It is an LDS belief that she would then be allowed to choose which one she wanted to be sealed to for eternity....

It is not allowed for a woman who is alive and remarries (who was previously sealed) to be sealed to another unless the first sealing is canceled.

:P

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Start of 2007, this is what I was told. No one else has had this told to them?

I'm curious...Where did you hear this? Was it a temple president? A temple worker? A Stake President? A Regional Representative? I'm just curious as to your source.

No...this is the first I've heard of this.

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Start of 2007, this is what I was told. No one else has had this told to them?

No. What temple were you at? Who told you this? Was it in writing or did someone mention it in passing? Did you ask any questions? It would probably help if you could give more information since you are the only source for this new change so far. :P

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