Posted on 07/19/2009 5:21:15 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mormon sisters share a husband
While sisters are known for their love of sharing, Mormon siblings Katie and Priscilla Churcher have chosen to share more than most in their choice of husband Travis.
15 Jul 2009
The pair live with their husband and eight children in a large house in Salt Lake City in the American state of Utah and insist they are very happy with their choice.
They have three cars, a big garden, wardrobes full of stylish clothes and a mountain of toys for all their offspring.
"People might think it's weird to share your husband with your sister, but it's not to us," said Katie, 28. "It makes Travis a better husband – he's more patient.
"He's had to learn how to cope with two different women with different personalities, and to remember how to make each of us feel special and loved.
"While he's got to check in with both of us, I've got more freedom to see my friends and there's always someone to help with the childcare." Katie met Travis, an office manager, through her brother and they started dating when she was 17.
Both came from Fundamentalist Mormon families where polygamy was the norm – Katie's father had three wives and Travis's had two.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Right, because marriage is all about seeing one’s friends and having somebody to watch one’s children.
This is where the liberal crowd will start supporting the Mormans. When they realize Mormans support the poly lifestyle
ok... sisterly love!
If they were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, they would have been excommunicated as soon as this became known. I.E., whatever else they are, they are clearly not "Mormons."
Wow. I wouldn’t share my sweater with my sister, let alone a husband.
Polygamy sucks for men because of its adverse effect on The Ratio.
New twist on
Family trees that don’t branch
We have quite a few here in E. Tenn.
Just a “different variety”
Do you think its a “religious” thing? like Allah’s four wives and concubines?
That’s double the nagging! :)
Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood did it first
While I disagree completely with polygamy, I do question how a government that endorses “marriage” between two people of the same gender could turn around and tell someone they can’t have two wives...
But heh... who am I?
Any man with any common sense would have figured out there are WAY more negatives than positives having two wives versus one.
Some men have even figured it out that no wife has a lot of advantages as well. Sometimes a little after the fact.
I can't speak for sisters, but I'll be damned if I share my girl with my brothers. That just ain't gonna happen.
Should save on the heating bill during the winter.
Any man who gets married a second time deserves his first wife.
PLEASE, do NOT enlarge that picture.
This is from a Catholic. Me that is.
Just because you call yourself Mormon does not make you Mormon. The LDS church has come down squarely on the side of monogamy. These women are as much Mormon as those female “priests” are Catholic.
Are the kids cousins or half siblings or ? confusing.
um - actually, they are practicing orthodox mormonism - it is the LDS that have stepped away from the old ways
"Having been brought up that way, we were both open to being in a polygamist relationship and we discussed Travis having lots of wives early on," said Katie.
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Priscilla was shocked to be asked, but eventually agreed to go out for dinner with Travis while Katie babysat the children.
"It was weird at first," said Priscilla, now 24. "Because he was married to my sister I tried not to let myself get too close, but I could see he was compassionate husband and a great dad and I wanted that too."
I don't get the shock here - that's how they grew up.
I second.
What's going on?
I don’t have an answer, except they believe in God, work , generally behave themselves, So? We have MUCH worse running our country.
Guilty and Guilty
I’m sure that LDS is as thrilled about FLDS as I am about Neturei Karta.
Good mormons living the principle..
I was married for 5 years to a woman who was two people. Saves on clothes but that it. I learned to despise both of them.
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In spite of the "manifesto"
On 24 September 1890, President Wilford Woodruff issued his famous Manifesto which stated in part, ". . . and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during the period [since June 1889] been solemnized in our temples or in any other place in the Territory," and concluded, "And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The Church-owned Deseret Evening News editorialized on 30 September: "Anyone who calls the language of President Woodruff's declaration 'indefinite' must be either exceedingly dense or determined to find fault. It is so definite that its meaning cannot be mistaken by any one who understands simple English." On 3 October it added, "Nothing could he more direct and unambiguous than the language of President Woodruff, nor could anything be more authoritative." A few days after this last editorial, the Church authorities presented this 'unambiguous' document for a sustaining vote of the general conference. Yet during the next thirteen and a half years, members of the First Presidency individually or as a unit published twenty-four denials that any new plural marriages were being performed. The climax of that series of little manifestoes was the "Second Manifesto" on plural marriage sustained by a vote of a general conference. President Joseph F. Smith's statement of 6 April 1904, read in part:
Inasmuch as there are numerous reports in circulation that plural marriages have been entered into contrary to the official declaration of President Woodruff, of September 24, 1890, commonly called the Manifesto . . . I, Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hereby affirm and declare that no such marriages have been solemnized with the sanction, consent or knowledge of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Polygamous marriages continued to be performed by various church authorities:
How many new plural marriages were performed between 1890 and 1904? The anti-Mormon Salt Lake Tribune estimated in 1910 that there were "about two thousand," which was echoed by the schismatic Mormon Fundamentalists forty years later.27 On the other hand, until recently, the official and semiofficial publications of the Church simply rephrased the First Presidency 1907 statement that there were "few" new plural marriage from 1890 to 1904.28 Historians Arrington and Bitton increased that estimate based on reasearch done in 1983 by lawyer-historian Kenneth L. Cannon II who created an annual statistical chart of 150 polygamous marriages from 1890 to 1904 which apparently caused a dramatic shift in the official presentation of numbers.29 In 1984 it was restated that "a comparatively large number of polygamous marriages had been performed after the Manifesto."30
And finally, to what extent were new plural marriages performed from 1890 to 1904 with Church authority? Aside from denials of the First Presidency already cited, the Deseret Evening News editorialized in 1911, "There is absolutely no truth in the allegation that plural marriages have been entered into with [the] sanction of the Church since the manifesto."31 Apostle John A. Widtsoe wrote in 1936, "Since that day [6 October 1890] no plural marriage has been performed with the sanction or authority of the Church," BYU historian Gustive O. Larson wrote in 1958 that "While Presidents Woodruff, Snow, and Smith maintained monogamous integrity of the Church, plural marriages were being performed secretly by two members of the Apostles’ Quorum," Counselor Stephen L Richards wrote in 1961, "Since that time [1890], entering into plural marriage has been construed to be an offense against the laws of the Church," Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley wrote in 1969, "Since that time [September 1890] the Church has neither practiced nor sanctioned such marriage," Apostle Mark E. Petersen wrote in 1974 that "the Manifesto put an end to all legal plural marriages," historians Allen and Leonard wrote in 1976 that the performance of new plural marriages outside of Utah from 1890 to 1904 "was without official sanction from the First Presidency," and historians Arrington and Bitton reaffirmed in 1979 that these plural marriages were "without the sanction of church authority."32 Significantly, the schismatic Mormon polygamists accept at face value all of these statements, and use them in connection with evidence of the performance of new plural marriages after 1890 as an argument justifying the continued performance of polygamy to the present:
By this action of President John Taylor [in 1886], which it must be assumed was taken in accordance with instructions from the Lord, additional machinery for the continuance of the Celestial order of marriage was set up.... It had been entered into by members of the Priesthood wholly apart and independent of the Church.... It was under this authority conferred under the hands of John Taylor that Anthony W. Ivins exercised the sealing powers in Mexico, after the Church adopted the Manifesto. It was by this authority that John Henry Smith, John W. Taylor, Abraham Owen Woodruff and others joined people in the Patriarchal order of marriage after the issuance of the Manifesto; and it was by the same authority that Abraham H. Cannon, a member of the quorum of the Twelve, entered into Plural marriage, after the Manifesto. The Church neither approved nor disapproved these several actions.33With due respect to the sincerity of all the above interpretations and assertions about post-Manifesto plural marriages, none of them accurately describes the situation as it existed in the past and is revealed in available documents. Even detailed and scholarly studies of new plural marriages from 1890 to 1904 provide important insights at the same time they repeat inaccuracies of fact and misconceptions of the complexity involved in the subject.34 Contrary to the confident Deseret News editorials of 1890, the Manifesto inherited ambiguity, was created in ambiguity, and produced ambiguity
The current polygamists practicing polygamy as instituted by the early day mormon church may have been excommunicated from the Salt Lake church, but the tradition and "principle" come directly from founder Joseph Smith.
Close to that, yes.
The false prophet Muhammad had 23 wives, IIRC.
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