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From the column -- written by a Mormon: BYU Studies published an excellent piece on Heavenly Mother’s relevance in Mormonism that can be accessed here.

When you click on the summary for this article, you find this BYU-sponsored sentence: Contrary to criticism in some quarters, Church leaders have not relegated this deity to a confined role. Statements from the late 1840s onward show that leaders and influential Latter-day Saints have explored her roles as a fully divine being, a creator of worlds with the Father, a coframer of the plan of salvation, and a concerned and involved parent of her children on earth.

There ya go...The Mormons have a "sexy goddess" and they know it...but they still are keeping her roles as co-creators of the worlds and coframer of the plan of salvation kind of under some (not total) wraps from the rest of the "public"...part of their "milk before meat" bait & switch tactics.

Mormon columnist Doug Gibson confirms the "under-wraps" approach with this graph: Heavenly Mother was talked about in LDS churches long go, whether by Brigham Young, BH Roberts, etc. What many don’t realize is that Mormonism was once a progressive, ECCENTRIC religion that SHOCKED EVERYONE. Much of that history has been toned down, to put it mildly, the past few generations. In fact, a generation ago, members were urged by the church’s First Presidency not to talk about Heavenly Mother.

(Yeah, just wait til the MSM and the Obama minions get hold of all the shocking details which they will parade before voters in the Summer & Fall of 2012...The BBC was already doing it this week for a mostly European audience...: An Englishwoman's view of The Mormon Candidate documentary on BBC tonight

From the column: The doctrine of polygamy, eternal life, godhood, and eternal worlds leads to the conclusions that God is dealing with scores, hundreds, perhaps even thousands of “Heavenly Mothers.” Nevertheless, My Heavenly Mother, even if she shares my Heavenly Father with a lot of other spouses, is a god.

There-ya-go...Romney supporters of America...Figures that ya wanna get him in the White House so that he and his legion of Mormon PR agents can train our younger generation that there's really "scores, hundreds, perhaps even thousands of 'Heavenly Mothers'" married as goddesses to a Mormon Polygamist god with quite a sexual appetite...a god that Romney will pray to whenever a crisis hits America.

And, given that there's no such polygamist god in heaven...so much for having such a non-existent god bail out a would-be Romney White House resident.

Blasphemy

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Hiccups

My view, God won't be happy with a supposed Christina Nation that elects a Mormon as President.

There is virtually nothing Christian about that cult, as even a cursory examination easily reveals.

"God made woman from the rib of man, you know: a cheaper cut!"
~Archie Bunker, 1972

What thinking, sane, individual can swallow this stuff? This is the reason I would never vote for bishop Romney. There are plenty enough of other reasons but the simple fact that he believes such nonsense makes him not fit for elective office.

Mitt’s father got into a heap of political trouble by saying that he had been “brain washed” concerning Viet Nam. He was brain washed long before the Viet Nam war and so was Mitt.

If it comes down to Romney vs. Obama, for the first time since I became old enough to vote, I will leave the top of the ticket blank.

In November 1968, I was 23 years old and voted in my first ever presidential election (voting age at the time was 21), I haven’t failed to vote for the Republican candidate since. I feel saddened that I may not get to vote for one this time.

It’s a beautiful hymn, written by Eliza R. Snow

This Eliza Snow?

The same one who was married to Joseph as one of his plural wives? The one that Emma Smith beat with a broomstick and then kicked down a flight of stairs? The one who miscarried Joseph's baby as a result of Emma's battery? The one who was barren thereafter despite being frequently visited by Joseph and then later by Brigham after she became one of his plural wives? The one who was sealed for time and all eternity to both prophets? The one whose brother Lorenzo became an LDS prophet and coined that famous couplet that embarrasses Saints that deny its existence until you read it directly from the lds.com website ... the one that goes, "As man now is, god once was. As god now is, man may become."

That Eliza Snow?

I know Heavenly Mother's super secret name ... the one that's so sacred we are never supposed to mention it out loud!

Interestingly, it's very similar to a term Joseph probably heard numerous times before his death ... a venereal disease, no less.

How many of you evil Inmans also know?

Anybody care to type it on a keyboard ... being careful not to say it out loud ... before I do?

/Zak

Wikipedia's entry on the Mormon "heavenly mother": Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)

It’s a beautiful hymn, written by Eliza R. Snow.

Eliza was a devout Mormon.

At age 38, she became Joseph Smith's 14th plural wife (in addition to Smith's lawful wife, Emma).

In 1842, after learning Eliza was pregnant, Emma Smith beat Eliza with a broomstick and

knocked her down a flight of stairs, causing Eliza to miscarry Smith's baby.

Miss Eliza R. Snow was one of the first (willing) victims of Joseph in Nauvoo. She used to be much at the prophet’s house he made her one of his celestial brides... . Feeling outraged as a wife and betrayed as a friend, Emma is currently reported as having had recourse to a vulgar broomstick as an instrument of revenge: and the harsh treatment received at Emma’s hands is said to have destroyed Eliza’s hopes of becoming the mother of a prophet’s son (Dr. W. Wyl, Mormon Portraits, 1886, pp.57-58).

The Mormon writer Claire Noall acknowledged: “Willard realized that Emma had refused to believe that any of the young women boarding at the Mansion when it was first used as a hotel had been married to Joseph. She had struck Eliza Snow at the head of the stairs, and Eliza, it was whispered, had lost her unborn child” (Intimate Disciple, a Portrait of Willard Richards, 1957, p.407).

Sometime during February of 1843 Emma evidently became aware that Joseph had taken her best friend, Eliza R. Snow, as a plural wife. Eliza was currently living in the Smith home, which housed a number of boarders. LDS historians Linda Newell and Valeen Avery wrote:

When the full realization of the relationship between her friend Eliza and her husband Joseph came to her, Emma was stunned. . . . Although no contemporary account of the incident between Emma and Eliza remains extant, evidence leads to the conclusion that some sort of physical confrontation occurred between the two women. In 1886 Wilhelm Wyl published the first known version of the incident in his book, Joseph Smith the Prophet: His Family and His Friends:

They say . . . there is scarcely a Mormon unacquainted with the fact that Sister Emma . . . soon found out the little compromise arranged between Joseph and Eliza. Feeling outraged as a wife and betrayed as a friend, Emma is currently reported as having had recourse to a vulgar broomstick as an instrument of revenge; and the harsh treatment received at Emma’s hands is said to have destroyed Eliza’s hopes of becoming the mother of a prophet’s son...

Another story, attributed to LeRoi C. Snow, Eliza’s nephew, is an oral family tradition that tells of Emma knocking Eliza down the stairs with a broom, the fall resulting in a miscarriage for Eliza. . . .

Whether Eliza fell down the stairs or whether Emma pushed her or pulled her down by the hair, or whether Emma only turned her out of the house, the result seems to be documented in Eliza’s terse journal entry for February 11, 1843:

‘Took board and had my lodging removed to the residence of br. [Jonathan] Holmes.’

Eliza did not make another entry in her journal for five weeks and wrote no explanation for either the gap in her diary or her abrupt departure from Emma’s home. . . .

Several acquaintances of Eliza spoke of Emma discovering Eliza’s relationship with Joseph, leading to her departure.

The incident between Emma and Eliza forced the issue of plural marriage into the open. Emma could no longer believe that Joseph was not involved, and he could no longer deny it. Emma had not acted with violence before; now her determined opposition might show up again with unexpected force. Joseph resolutely tried to bring Emma around (Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, 1994, pp. 134-137).

http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no106.htm