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Originally Posted by macker
I guess if we are tossing out questions here.....
Is there something in the book of mormom that would cause someone to believe that having multiple wives is a go? Also how are the mormon churches dealing with all the negative PR caused by Bountiful & Texas and Warren Jeff's. I guess you could argue that the other mainstream religions have lots of bad apples too but I am curious as to how one can read the book, come under the spell and convince soo many others that this is appropriate behavior in this day and age. Also thanks to the mormons on CP that are willing to enlighten the thread with some info from the front lines!
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I am terrible with scripture, but I don't think there is an incident of plural marriage in the Book of Mormon. To explain why it was adopted by early LDS was there were many righteous sisters who were without husbands to care for them, partially through death from the mobs who drove them from pretty much every place they lived before the Salt Lake Valley and partiall y because less men were converted in the early days. To help care for these women, they were assigned to the care of men who had the means to support them and their children.
Once Polygamy was declared illegal in the US the Church stopped performing plural marriages as part of normal course of action. Then later on the Church excommunicated anyone who still insisted on having multiple wives.
So to answer your question, the people in Bountiful and the Warren Jeff people are not Mormons. They may have been at one time, and if they were, they were probably kicked out of the church for thier beliefs. I don't deal with any fallout from them because they are not part of our Church. For someone to complain to Mormons about this stuff in Bountiful is does not even make anywhere close to as much sense as someone complaining to England because Canada legalized gay marriage. There is far more connection between the laws we pass and England than there is between Bountiful peeps and Mormons.