The Mormon Church & Polygamy: A Double Standard?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicates any church member who practices polygamy. The Church has publicly disowned Mormon fundamentalists, representing the sects of Mormonism which embrace early Mormon teachings that made polygamy a central part of the Mormon faith — the ongoing legacy of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.

While the LDS Church says it does not sanction polygamy, behind closed temple doors, and in Mormon databases, many excommunicated Mormon fundamentalists (and their plural wives) have been reclaimed through posthumous rituals for the dead — and, in numerous cases, posthumously reinstated through “resurrected” original LDS ordinances, including baptisms.

Reinventing its polygamous history, the LDS Church is ushering deceased excommunicated Mormon fundamentalists — such as Rulon Clark Allred; Rulon Timpson Jeffs; and members of the LeBaron clan, including notorious killer, Ervil Morell LeBaron — back into the LDS fold.

The LDS temple system is systematically validating the plural marriages of many deceased Mormon fundamentalists who, when they were alive, were excommunicated from the LDS Church because of polygamy. Some of these polygamists have been posthumously sealed in LDS temples to plural wives they married — after the LDS Church officially suspended polygamy.

Why does the LDS Church condemn the practice of polygamy — including the polygamy of Mormon fundamentalists — as the LDS temple system consistently validates deceased Mormon fundamentalists and many of their plural marriages?

Pensito Review contributor Helen Radkey is a Salt Lake City-based researcher into the practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose groundbreaking research showing that the church was continuing to posthumously baptize victims of the Holocaust sparked outrage in recent years.

“Pensito Review contributor Helen Radkey is a Salt Lake City-based researcher into the practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose groundbreaking research showing that the church was continuing to posthumously baptize victims of the Holocaust sparked outrage in recent years...”

Yes, this is strange. And Newt’s faith, Catholicism, prays for the dead to get them out of “purgatory”, as if there is ANYTHING that can be done to get them into heaven after they’ve died.

As we all know, if one hasn’t accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior before death, there is no hope for eternal life.

So what’s the diff? Romney, Gingrich AND Santorum are all involved in teachings outside of Scripture, are they not?

Yes, this is strange. And Newt’s faith, Catholicism, prays for the dead to get them out of “purgatory”, as if there is ANYTHING that can be done to get them into heaven after they’ve died.

As we all know, if one hasn’t accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior before death, there is no hope for eternal life.

So what’s the diff? Romney, Gingrich AND Santorum are all involved in teachings outside of Scripture, are they not?

So what’s the diff?

Praying for souls is different from baptizing souls of those who were faithful Christians-Jews during their lives.

Not only do mormons baptize for the dead, they confirm them as members of the mormon church, "endow" them with false "priesthood", "seal" them to their dead families for "eternity"...all with the mormon belief that these covenants taking place in their temple are actually binding on God! And that the soul of the dead can/will "accept" all this chicanery in their name!

God has defined marriage. The government does not need to.

Government needs to keep enforcing that definition, or else it doesn't exist, the Mormon Gods would still have Polygamy, Allah would still have polygamy, homosexual churches would have always had marriage.

Letting marriage be defined by any and all, no matter how bizarre or far afield, means that what we have always thought of as marriage, just no longer exists.

Do you have any idea of the connections between Islam and Mormonism? Their founding prophet declared himself to be a second Mohammed and stated it shall be “Joseph Smith or the Sword”. They continually say good things about Islam and Muslims are welcome at BYU. They also align themselves with Muslim charities instead of Christian ones.

And, yes, I can document all of that.

Why on earth would you support Mitt Romney?

I'm an ex-mormon...

My mormon mom and I talk every weekend and it so happened that she was really enthused to tell me she had finished all her sealing and endowing, all the ancestors of her family she could find were no longer dead Catholics, they were all dead mormons now, all the unmarried dead people were now married to other dead people, all the dead Catholic men were dead mormon priests in the cult now...although they can't be gods at least they could go to the slum area of mormon heaven (terrestrial kingdom?) and now she could be at peace, she's 82, and she thinks everything's signed, sealed, and delivered, and she's ready to join my dead father to be a god's wife.

All I could do is listen and make affirmative sounds. At some point you have to let it go.

Does she claim like a lot of Mormons do that she has completed her genealogy all the way back to Adam? Even when I was LDS, I couldn’t believe that people bought that ‘faith promoting’ rumor.

I was lucky, I got out of the LDS church before I married, but only because my Returned LDS missionary fiancee decided he was gay a few weeks before our temple wedding.

And since I was a convert, I don’t have any LDS family. I still have LDS friends and I understand the grunts of affirmation, I do that sometimes when they start going on about thier kids going on a mission, or Relief Society, or a temple trip. UGH.

I was bought by a middle aged mormon couple who couldn’t have kids. All done under the table with a mormon doctor filling out fake birth certificates...which are of no use in finding my biological parents, and whatever info my adoptive mother has, she doesn’t remember. Although all of us kids knew we were adopted, neither of them would admit it; my mother finally told us when I was in my 30’s, years after my adoptive father was dead. So there’s a lot of different shades to that word, “family”, in those circumstances.

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