“Preserving traditional marriage? LOL! Isn’t this the church that had polygamy until the congress pressured them out of it. What’s their version of traditional marriage?”
I think you’re kind of ignoring the current reality by bringing up practices that were discontinued about 120 years ago. The current reality is that the LDS church is very much about a one man/one woman traditional marriage. You don’t have to like it, but those are simply the facts on the ground.
It’s hypocritical. I know the church wants to ignore it’s own history, but you can’t change facts. Tradition is a historical concept. That’s why they call it a tradition. Whether you and I like it or not, indeed.
“Preserving traditional marriage? LOL! Isn’t this the church that had polygamy until the congress pressured them out of it. What’s their version of traditional marriage?”Those are the key words. Congress had to bitch-slap them into accepting traditional marriage. We did to the homosexuals what was done to the Mormons.
I think you’re kind of ignoring the current reality by bringing up practices that were discontinued about 120 years ago. [Texan Tory]
Well, it's obvious, Texan Tory, that you're either 100% ignorant or are just intentionally ignoring two facts:
(a) In his book, Mormon Doctrine, LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie stated in 1966 that polygamy is a "holy practice" and that this "holy practice...will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering of the millennium." (Mormon Doctrine, p. 578)
So, the "discontinuance" you reference would itself be "discontinued" tomorrow if the Mormon version of Jesus returned tomorrow.
(b) Mormons believe marriage is forever; so every past polygamist has simply shifted over to a different colony to live (beyond the veil). Furthermore, every serial monogamist -- according to Mormon thought -- becomes an eternal polygamist, provided that he or she was "temple worthy" when they died and provided those unions were recorded in the temple as "for eternity".