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[juliann]

rufus, on Mar 23 2008, 12:24 AM, said:

What is with the fixation on plural marriage?  That was then, this is now.  And it seems these threads are all started by people who aren't LDS or even FLDS.  For what it is worth, most of us don't care who Joseph Smith was sealed to or who were his children.

If these people want to peel this scab of off an old wound, I recommend the Texas Polygamy Blogspot.  Go, enjoy, argue with someone that cares.  Have a nice life, but have it somewhere else.

If we are not practicing our faith correctly, that is between us and God.  Let's deal the trolls out of it.

If we refuse to post on polygamy subjects, maybe these people will go back to their caves.

Unfortunately,  there are a few LDS here who are hoping it comes back and will use anything at their disposal to "prove" it.   What we need to do is demand documentation from a modern prophet saying anything close and then report the thread when it is not provided.  Maybe it will be all right at some point, who knows....but we will never get away from the shadow of the criminal groups if we allow people to represent themselves as LDS and preach that it is in our future.   Even if it was, no one would have to do it anyway....they didn't when it was a commandment.

[kamenraider]

Only two in five said they'd practice the principle IF COMMANDED BY THE PROPHETS??? Sounds like we're 60% apostate.

Want to know the grand total of threads and posters I've reported in my entire lifetime?   ZERO.

Edit: the above scans are from Rocky Mountain Empire by Samuel W. Taylor, and Solemn Covenant by B. Carmon Hardy.

Edited by kamenraider, 24 March 2008 - 09:33 PM.

[calmoriah]

It may be that if it became a reality and given time to adjust to the idea and see it in practice that people would change their minds.  It may be they just can't conceive of it ever happening emotionally and therefore think they would reject, but just because someone thinks they will react in a certain way does not guarantee that reaction as has been proved time and time again in my experience.  Just as many can't conceive of marrying anyone else, yet if a spouse dies in time most who have had good marriages look for the same positive experience again.

Which is one reason why I think we have to come down to earth and actually live out our lives rather than just be judged by the Lord on how we would have acted if we had the chance...having the chance just may change us.

Brigham Young didn't come gently to the idea.  Often the faithful rejected the command until they had a personal witness for it.  I don't blame anyone who rejects accepting this concept that isn't even a command these days, but is in fact commanded against because it is likely they have never received a witness to it.  Nor do I see God handing out witnesses to the rightness of the practice when it's currently 'not right'.

Edited by calmoriah, 24 March 2008 - 11:04 PM.

[kamenraider]

juliann, on Mar 23 2008, 12:51 PM, said:

Unfortunately,  there are a few LDS here who are hoping it comes back and will use anything at their disposal to "prove" it.   What we need to do is demand documentation from a modern prophet saying anything close and then report the thread when it is not provided.  Maybe it will be all right at some point, who knows....but we will never get away from the shadow of the criminal groups if we allow people to represent themselves as LDS and preach that it is in our future.   Even if it was, no one would have to do it anyway....they didn't when it was a commandment.