05-11-2007, 12:17 PM | #1 |
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Genocide, pederasty, rape and murder....
I mean there are a lot of awful things in the world.
Which makes me wonder how limited Romney's imagination is if he can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy. The irony of the church's relationship with the concept of polygamy in 2007 is mind-boggling. Some of our ancestors actually went to prison in defense of this practice, yet in 2007 church members beat the war drums to have polygamists arrested. The church is one of the leaders in the battle of defining marriage through constitutional amendment, which would effectively ban polygamy in the United States forever, and the Mormon presidential candidate says he can't imagine anything more awful. Was it a righteous practice or not? Why would God command us to do something that would lead to ultimate sorrow? Do we respect the right of others to practice it as part of their religion? In 1843, Romney would have been excommunicated for his statement. In 2007, he is lionized. |
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A little hyperbolic to say the least. He could have phrased it differently and still accomplished his task, that being separating himself from the practice (again).
Note that on the Tonight Show he rejoiced over the 1978 change, stating his strong feeling "that discrimination in wrong." Was he calling God wrong? I hope his SP is taking notes.
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The modern mormon Church is never going to openly admit that polygamy was not a righteous practice. They will continue to spout the the line that polygamy is no longer practiced and it is an issue that no longer needs to be discussed. And those outside the Church will continue to press the polygamy issue because they don't buy the Church's explanation. Until the church upgrades its explanation, people will continue to press mormons for something more convincing.
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That's like defending O.J. by saying, "At least he's not as bad as Jeffrey Dahmer."
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I'm not familiar with D&C 132, but since it's contained in the D&C I'm comfortable with guessing that it is, indeed, a fabrication.
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How is it inaccurate? I assume the point of your original post was to point out that polygamy, as practiced by the early church, was free of many of the abuses found in modern day polygamy. My point is that polygamy is wrong, no matter how you spin it. The accumulation of multiple sex partners for the gratification of old men in power is, at its core, a sleazy practice. There is no way to dress it up and say that JS banging 30 young girls is somehow less sleazy than Warren Jeffs banging 30 young girls.
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