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While most people see the Mormon renunciation of polygamy as a humiliating kick in the crotch, they don't appreciate the coup that occurred when Mormons said, "Okay. We'll stop." Nobody really thought that Mormons would just stop. Nobody just stops. How in the world can you claim to be on God's errand, with peculiar beliefs and practices, and then just renounce them - or at least the most distinctive card in your deck? For some Mormons, the answer was that you can't. Believing themselves to be the sons of John Taylor, the last Mormon prophet to advocate polygamy, the Fundamentalists want to be martyrs. They want to imagine some kind of apocalyptic end game, where God comes down and wipes out everybody except the polygamists.

Modern Mormonism comes from a coup that occurred within the Mormon Church. Unwilling to become outlaws and unbound to a practice that had become the federal government's rationale for sweeping the Mormons out of a strategic crossroads of the West, Modern Mormons gave up the practice - and virtually killed its power over them. In doing so, they opened the way for Mormons to become part of the American mainstream. In fact, over the next fifty years, Mormons would not only be welcomed back into American life. They would become a major icon representing the squeaky clean image of a new age. While Mormons are casually laughed at as out of step with fashion, the Mormon focus on community and family life has made Mormon culture a highly-respected subculture, one that increasing numbers of Americans look to for moral leadership.

Two things stand in the way of progress: kooky Fundamentalists with machine guns and child brides, and hard sell missionary tactics that look like something out of an Amway convention.

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You comments blew me away. How horrible. What does the FLDS do to its children? To think that they throw out so many young boys who basically have no job skills and have to sell their bodies in order to survive. I thought it was just the girls that were being abused and now it seems that many of the boys are also abused. May God have mercy on these poor kids and protect them.

Time for the FLDS to renounce polygamy and come back to the fold

bcspace wrote:

Time for the FLDS to renounce polygamy and come back to the fold

It doesn't seem they would have to rennounce anything regarding plural marriage except today's current practice of it.

It doesn't seem they would have to rennounce anything regarding plural marriage except today's current practice of it.

bcspace wrote:

Time for the FLDS to renounce polygamy and come back to the fold

It doesn't seem they would have to rennounce anything regarding plural marriage except today's current practice of it.