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Hypothetical: A temple-worthy Mormon man "dies" for several minutes on the operating table. He reports that before he was resuscitated, that his 3 wives that he serially was married to "on earth" but had already died were there waiting for him and that he acted in a "husbandly" way to each of them during his brief "celestial visit."

Given the 100% unique position of Mormonism (fundie or otherwise) that "marriage is forever," is this man fundamentally a polygamist in the eyes of average "Joe Mormon" or is he "single?"

And since the...
...Mormon church performs [present tense] polygamous "for eternity" ritual ceremonies with the 2nd & 3rd earthly serial "wives" to their same-said husband...
...in its church-owned temple...
...paid for by LDS tithing dollars...
...And polygamy is expressly regarded in our lifetime by LDS apostles as a "holy practice" (Bruce McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 1966 ed.)...
...I guess if you're going to continue to deny these things then you might as well rip off the "families are forever" bumper stickers in your ward parking lots.

As Sentinel has said on a few of his posts, as least the fLDS are more forward about what they believe than mLDS. (I happen to think they're not that much more forward for legal reasons; but he's right...it's quite a statement to say that fLDS are more forward & forthright on this issue than mLDS who...
...spiritually hem & haw...
...& parse time frames & parse locations...
...& conveniently "forget" these current temple rituals...
...& qualify & cut out parts of the Book of Mormon to describe its past polygamy...
...& now claims that monogamy is its "default" standard when D&C 132:4,21,27,32,37 (oh, except when the Mormon god says otherwise)...
...is frankly like downtown Vegas blinking, "If you want celestial kingdomhood, walk down the temple aisle multiple times...Follow in the footsteps of what..."
...D&C says...
...70 general authorities' earthly lives said...
...7 LDS "prophets'" lives said...
...these general authorities alleged eternal lives say...
...mLDS apostles said in our generation...
...mLDS leaders still sanction & embody in LDS temples...

"Hypothetical: A temple-worthy Mormon man "dies" for several minutes on the operating table. He reports that before he was resuscitated, that his 3 wives that he serially was married to "on earth" but had already died were there waiting for him and that he acted in a "husbandly" way to each of them during his brief "celestial visit." "

I'm just curious. What laws of the State of Utah would have been violated ?