Mormons

I love being mormon! :)

you go jenny!! we are the best

Good for you guys…btw its “polygamy”...

We are here 2 stay!

I thought polygamy was the best thing about Mormonism. Oh well.

Bill Maher on Mormonism

if ur a mormon guy are you actully allowed 2 wives or is it just a myth?

oh sorry just found out wat polygamy is sry”“

actually.. polygamy does not exist anymore.

really ? i thought it still existed in some states of america meh… i was wrong :]

polygamy does occur in Mormon families it stopped because it’s illegal, but it still happens.

no, if there was polygamy happening in a mormon family, they would all be excommunicated. Mormons don’t support polygamy.

Wikipedia sez:

“In its October Conference of 1890, the LDS Church declared that it would discontinue the practice of plural marriage. The policy was accepted by unanimous vote of those in attendance. Nearly 20 years later, however, individuals surfaced who said that polygamy was a “fundamental” belief of Mormonism and could not be discarded. They formed several small congregations and communities advocating the necessity of polygamy and other doctrinal differences with the LDS Church. While these smaller groups have memberships in the hundreds or thousands, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now reports a worldwide membership of over 12.5 million. Due to heavy media focus on these fractional bodies, however, misidentification of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with these polygamous groups is not uncommon.”

umm.. ok first of all.. you looked up Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not an accurate website because anyone can submit their information. I could put anything I wanted on that website and say whatever I wanted. For example, under the definition of ‘shoe’ I could but that it means it is something you put on your head. See? completely false. Lackadaisy, you have no idea what you are talking about. I have been a member of the LDS church for over 16 years now and still going.

Wikipedia is certainly not perfect, but changing the “shoe” entry to “something you put on your head” would not fly on the Wikipedia website.

I don’t quite understand your almost offended response, because the Wikipedia entry is agreeing with what you said. It states that since 1890, “plural marriage” has not been part of the Mormon religion. Some small groups who practice “plural marriage” – and who call themselves Mormons, whether correctly or falsely – do exist.

I posted the segment as information, nothing more, nothing less. I recommend you change the entry if you see errors, as that’s the point of Wikipedia.

ummm she’s mormon i think she kows her religion better than you do

omg THANK YOU revolution! that guy obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

no problem he’s onl a so called “jerk”

imeant she’s

she or he lifes great mystery

lackadaisy is backing up what you say, miss sea. :) she’s a good gal, that lady. Let us keep a friendly atmosphere! How else will we live?

in sadness and depression…. well thats me at the moment .......help

Yeah!! Mormons are awesome!! Too bad about the polygamy ban ;)

I am not Mormon, but I have several Mormon friends and I have done my research because I hate ignorance.

Polygamy started among Mormons when they were traveling west to escape the persecution of the other fundamentalist Christian groups who freaking traveled here to establish a country with free religion, but anyways…

In the Mormon religion, it’s seen as improper for a woman to spend time alone with a man if they’re unmarried, because it can leave to compromising situations (i.e. premarital sex, which is a no-no). However, occasionally when traveling west, women’s husbands would die, so other men would take the widows into their wagons. They would marry these women so that it was morally acceptable for these women to travel with the men. Most of the time they would only reproduce with their original wives and the additional “wives” would just help with chores and stuff. Of course, some people took advantage of this, because people are always prone to do that, but it started out very innocently and now all Mormons have to deal with that stereotype, which was totally blown out of proportion and isn’t even sanctioned by the Mormon church.

*P.S. There are now more non-Mormon polygamists in the U.S. than there are Mormon polygamists.

Melissa, you are AWESOME for doing research about it instead of just quoting stuff off of places like Wikipedia that aren’t entirely true!

It is true that some women married other men after their husbands died when the Mormons were traveling west. However, that’s not exactly when and how polygamy was started in the Mormon church. It was actually started by the first prophet of the church, Joseph Smith. He received a revelation from God commanding him and his followers to practice polygamy before the Mormons came to Utah from Illinois. (Kind of ironic, cuz that’s part of the reason why Mormons were “banished” from Illinois). And for a while, Joseph Smith refused to tell his followers this because he believed it was wrong. After awhile though, he felt it was the right thing to do and told members of the church about it.

It’s not exactly known why God would command Joseph Smith to do this, but I believe a big reason why is because of what Melissa said. He knew that traveling west many wives would lose their husbands and would need one to make it. If you’re not a member of the church, that probably sounds like a bunch of crap…but you gotta have faith!!

Also a reason why people still think the LDS church practices polygamy is because the similarly name FLDS church practices it. They’re in no way affiliated with the LDS (Mormon) church.

Whew! That was a lot of writing! ;)

good explanation =]

Gracias

Good article on Mormonism

jojo you have way too much time on your hands.

wow that is how a debate should be said. that was very nice melisa thank you.

Aww, thank you. :)

P.S. Go Mormons! (Maybe one day I’ll be one. Right now I’m still checkin’ my options.)

There is something I do not understand ; why do you feel offended about Lackadaisy whereas he stated that : “Due to heavy media focus on these fractional bodies, however, misidentification of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with these polygamous groups is not uncommon.”?

As Lackadaisy said : “I don’t quite understand your almost offended response, because the Wikipedia entry is agreeing with what you said. It states that since 1890, “plural marriage” has not been part of the Mormon religion.”

I would like to thank Melissa and Trixareforkids for there comments which explain the origin of polygamy, that was instructive. You should edit the description to give an explanation about the religion.

I would like to thank Melissa and Trixareforkids for their comments which explain the origin of polygamy, that was instructive. You should edit the description to give an explanation for the religion.

What's strange?

See Evil-Mist's post, above.

(Or below, in my case. Crazy comment settings!)

What about it?

Yargh! That I've been attacked from various quarters for posting something that not only does not go against the Mormon religion, but actually backs up what various people have been saying about the religion not currently practising plural marriage? I am quite baffled. The reason I posted it in the first place was to point that out.

Sometimes you never can win, it seems. I'm off for soup...

It's strange that people thought lackadaisy was opposing what they were saying when she was actually agreeing. Especially since she stated quite a few times that she was in agreement and only backing them up. Yet they ignored her, quite rudely. And people accuse her of not reading or researching.

 She's actually showing interest and is willing to learn, yet she is insulted. When she did not insult at all! She was just misread! Really, be fair!

Well thank you for posting that! I'm sorry if you were attacked for posting that. I don't think I did, did I? If so, I'm sorry

Lackadaisy > "Strange, isn't it."

Well, it's probably misunderstanding with maybe a touch of paranoia against Wikipedia but nobody has been hurt.

How little you know! *sob*

Just kidding. ;)

Actually, some mormons do still practice polygamy even though it's illegal.

I've lived in Utah my whole life and never met any Mormon that practices polygamy, or for that matter, anyone

The thing to keep in mind is that while, yes, there are Mormons who practice polygamy, there are also Mormons who smoke and drink and do drugs. The Mormon church does not condone ANY of those things, and in fact prohibits it.

And I agree, trix, none of the Mormons I know are polygamists or even have met polygamists. I do know one polygamist, but he is not Mormon, just creepy.

hey cool, that means mormons are humans!

Exactly!

Well, most of them ;)

im mormon and it ROCKS!!! just so you guys all know, some people who call themselves "mormon" do practice polygamy… HOWEVER!!!! they are not recognized as real mormons. i'm not sure what they're actually called…..

Yay for Mormons. Just to add some credibility to the discussion, I am a Mormon, and have never met a polygamist. Polygamists are excommunicated from the Mormon church…they'd technically be committing adultery, which is definitely grounds for excommunication. People who refer to polygamists as Mormon, are sort of mislabeling them. The FLDS church is not the same as the LDS church, the original and largest Mormon church.