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Welcome
to Polygamy Books
Our mission is to provide the reader with a true,
unabridged rendering of the Mormon polygamist
lifestyle, past and present.
Polygamy Today
By today's standards, polygamy among
consenting adults ought
to be a moral issue rather than a criminal consequence.
However, the
problem with that notion is the frequent abuse of
priesthood authority.
Under the Mormon brand of polygamy, some husbands,
fathers and
priesthood leaders use feigned authority to adversely
manipulate both
men and women under their control. Families are torn
apart, inheritances
squandered, children sexually abused, reputations
trashed. Every year
hundreds of well meaning Mormons are converted to Mormon
fundamentalism,
and hundreds recuse themselves, sadder, poorer but
wiser.
Is the literature for or against polygamy?
Both.
Does this website have a bias?
YES. The bias is directed at demagoguery and the demigods
who masquerade as prophets, popes and priests for the purpose of power and profit at the expense of the free agency of
true believers. These unscrupulous imposters organize cults and merchandise faith, plural wives and celestial exaltation
under the cloak of religion. It's a multimillion dollar business.
Isn't polygamy protected by religious freedom?
Claiming that a doctrine or act is a religious tenet does not necessarily give the doctrine constitutional protection. For example, the doctrine of Blood Atonement, the taking of an apostate's life, was a Mormon religious tenet during the early days of the LDS Church. Blood Atonement is still believed by a few of the contemporary polygamist groups and was practiced by Ervil LeBaron and the Lafferty brothers. Are we so naive to believe that Blood Atonement, a method of dealing with apostates fleeing from a polygamist culture, should have constitutional protection?
Joseph Smith, Founder of The LDS Church is
believed to have more than 33 Wives at one time. |
Just because Abraham, Isaac, David, Solomon and possibly Jesus had
many wives does not make polygamy a religious tenet. It is
interesting to note that nowhere in the Holy Bible, Book of
Mormon, archaeology, anthropology or Will Durant's History of
Civilization has plural marriage been a commandment of God, or
been a religious tenet. Until Joseph Smith invented the doctrine
of polygamy, plural marriage was always a cultural practice
usually brought about by necessity. |
Since when did man need God to command him to
procreate? I thought the sex urge Mother Nature planted in all living
matter took adequate care of perpetuating the species. Another interesting sideline. Mormon fundamentalists would like us to believe that plural marriage is part of the Christian creed when in reality today's organized polygamist groups have very little to do with
Christianity. The leaders teach that it is the husband who will resurrect the wife, not Christ. The only time Jesus Christ is mentioned in polygamist meetings is during the ritualistic sacrament, opening and closing prayers.
The sermons consistently deal with priesthood authority, priesthood obedience, the virtues of plural marriage and past polygamist heroes like Loren Woolley and Joseph Musser. If one of their kind strays from the canonized teachings, rather than attempt to save him, if he lives on priesthood property they take his home, kick him out of the group and consign him to hell.
In as much as the prophet is the plenipotentiary agent of God, or
Adam, who is suppose to be the god of this world, Christ is not
necessary in a Mormon polygamist culture. Salvation is earned by
obedience to the prophet who is revered as a surrogate god. He has the capricious and arbitrary power to ruin one's salvation, give and take away wives. The power of the prophet is so absolute that he may
exchange a guaranteed exaltation for money. Also, the Mormon
fundamentalist leaders are not bound by the Ten Commandments.
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, doesn't apply to the fundamentalist prophet and his infallible priesthood.
If Mormon polygamists can convince the interested public that they are practicing Christianity and that the Mormon brand of polygamy should be treated as a protected religious tenet, then I would like to make them a good deal for the Brooklyn Bridge.
Right or wrong, good or bad, there is in Utah a valid Mormon
fundamentalist subculture not found in any other part of the world. Rather
than sweeping it under the rug it should be given its proper place in history because it is not going away.
Mormon polygamy is a unique cultural phenomenon
that has been cleverly disguised as religion. The source of all the abuse in organized polygamy can be traced to the false claim of religious authority.
The polygamist leaders have created a god in their own image, a god that yields to the prophet's every whim. The
accumulation of wives is not religion, it's a business.
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