People assume Mormons are pro-life because they have a lot of kids and generally oppose birth control for that reason.
However, rather than having kids because they believe life begins at conception and being genuinely pro-life, it is because their theology teaches that their job is to provide bodies for God’s spirit children who are waiting to come down and ‘work out their Salvation’. These spirit children cannot progress to godhood if they don’t have bodies and the best of them should be born to Mormon families where they grow up in ‘the Church’ and know the right doctrines rather than risk them not converting.
Officially the LDS have no statement about when the spirit enters the body, but most of my LDS friends believe it is at birth or shortly before, so abortion isn’t THAT big of a deal, because the spirit child will get another chance to get a body.
For the record I assume a candidate is prolife when they
A. Say they are pro life
and
B. have a history of voting for pro life causes
or
if they are not in voting power (ie the county dog catcher)
C. lend their name to the Pro life movement.
Is that too much to ask?
Perhaps THIS explains why the Holy Ghost hasn't a BODY like the other two yet: He (it? she?) ain't WORTHY enough yet!.
So I guess that means that He (it? she?) ain't a GOD yet?
What theological implication does THIS present?
Any FR mormons want to comment?