LDS warnings about the evils of monogamy same as Prop 8 rhetoric!

[K8-EEE]

http://www.exmormon.org/mormon/mormon001.htm


This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans,..."
- Apostle Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, page 195

Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire....Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a holy sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.... Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practised it. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' it is the only popular religion there,..."
- Prophet Brigham Young, The Deseret News, August 6, 1862


Interesting quotes comparing the similarities between 19th century anti-monogamy & 20th/21st century anti-gay. I've noticed with conservatives in general, ANYTHING they don't like is what brought down the Roman empire! LOL!

[NightWatcher]

1. Can't wait till the Christian fundies listen to Beck and elect Romney...

Then they'll start reading their cultist beliefs and either convert or revolt and bring back witch hunts

All of the fundies in my family love Beck, but ignore (or don't know) the stuff he believes.

Watch and chuckle in fear as Beck becomes the Jim Jones of the wacky teabagging right wing fundies. I predict another Jonestown and mass suicide within 3 years.

[K8-EEE]

3. they won't though cuz

It's funny that when Romney's dad was running for President the Mormon thing barely came up -- but with todays Republican theocrats, with half of them it's always going to come down to "he's not CHRISTIAN..." The Evangelicals in particular, I remember them saying stuff on FR like "I can't vote for anyone who doesn't believe in the TRINITY..." CUZ, you know, how could you possibly run a country and believe in like, a DUO or a QUARTET?

[Radical Activist]

5. Exactly.

Romney's campaign was destroyed, mostly by Huckabee allies, because he's Mormon. What Mormon leaders probably don't get is that they're being used to organize the gay-marriage proposition by the same christian conservative crowd that destroyed Romney's campaign. There aren't enough Southern Baptists in California and the Northwest so they got the Mormons to do it. Suckers.

[K8-EEE]

7. I just read this book "Leaving the Saints"

What an eye-opener about what it is like to live in the American theocracy in Provo Utah and try to keep your sanity!

[eShirl]

2. D'oh!

[K8-EEE]

4. RWers are forever assigning scapegoats for the fall of Rome

The logistics of maintaining EMPIRE is never on the list.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. My brother became a Mormon.

He married a Mormon girl and followed her to Provo. I haven't seen or talked to him in over 25 years. He works at BYU. The other day I was looking around on line and saw a picture of him. I was totally shocked. He looks like a televangelist. It's too weird.

[K8-EEE]

8. LDS is all about conformity

They all kind of look like car salesmen or TV preachers at BYU -- including the students!

[FreeState]

9. Especially at BYU

The dress code for BYU for men includes no long hair, no facial hair (unless medically necessary), no piercings and no tattoos.

Contrast that with entering their Temples - if your a member you can have all of the above and still go to the Temple.