Polygamy, child brides and providing birth control. It's all the same.

[Sheepshank]

Everyone understands that even if it's church doctrine, marrying off and raping 12 and 14 year olds is not acceptable in the eyes of the law. Having 17 wives all on welfare because one hubby cannot provide enough food, is not only morally but even legally dishonest. They are prosecutable in the eyes of the law.

When a law requires that every woman be given the opportunity to obtain insurance coverge for birth control is being touted as a government slam again religion, how is this law any different than the government trampling all over a church's doctrine by prosecuting men who have multiple wives and child brides?

[Sheepshank]

1. Probably should have posted this question on a Freep type site

right?

[eShirl]

3. I saw the post as arguing *against* all these things

(not *for*)

[dimbear]

2. This does not represent the public or official policy of the LDS church. Polygamy

as an ideal is now reserved for a future more perfect time, a time when the LDS church has more political power. While it is of course true that the highest rungs of salvation are reserved to men who are plurally married, such plural marriages cannot be sanctioned openly at this time.

Also, it would be more convenient not to discuss this publicly. TIA.

[Sheepshank]

5. Do you mean FDLS?

[dimbear]

6. No, I mean LDS. As in Mitt Romney type LDS.

Chapter and verse.

[Sheepshank]

7. so who said I was talking about LDS?

trampling all over the freedoms of a religion would also apply to FLDS...no?

[dimbear]

8. Absolutely, they (FLDS) are a repulsive group. The worst. I'm just amplifying and broadening

your good work. People don't know much about the Mormons, because the Mormons don't want to be known about.

That's why bishop Romney never talks about his faith. Unfortunately for him, the secrets have gotten out.

I know I don't sound very liberal, going on about the Mormons as I do, but it's personal.

The LDS church right now in 2012 finds nothing wrong with polygamy. They can't because it's the backbone of their history. They do find it illegal, and because it's illegal it's banned. IIRC, it will get you excommunicated. But it's still the spiritual ideal. Is it any wonder Mormons practice polygamy under the table?

[quaker bill]

4. Quakers object to war taxes

but we have to pay them.