Mormonism
Hey Mitt, thanks for the warning!!!
Submitted by stormbear on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 12:21pm.Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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Romney’s Secret Weapon Against Huckabee
Submitted by stormbear on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:22am.Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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Better than marriage equality - many wives!
Submitted by James on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 1:38pm.
All the hubbub about civil unions, civil marriage, and whatever, will likely fall by the wayside later this month when Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney throws his hat into the presidential sweepstakes. Instead of debating what John Edwards thinks of gay marriage, the national discussion will shift temporarily to (1) every man's fantasy of plural marriage and (2) whether followers of the Latter Day Saints are really honest-to-god Christians in the first place.
The plural marriage business has always intrigued me because it used to be a central tenet of the Mormon faith, but was renounced because of political pressure in the late 19th century.
The Church officially renounced the practice in 1890 when then President of the Church, Wilford Woodruff, issued "The Manifesto," while under extreme political pressure from the United States government while the territory of Utah was applying for statehood. However, there is substantial evidence that the practice continued among some Mormons into the early 20th century. The Church began formally excommunicating polygamists around this time.
