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...am I correct in stating that:

1. Men can be sealed to more than one woman. So if a wife dies a man can remarry and be sealed in the Temple to the second wife without cancellation of the sealing to the first wife. And if a divorce happens, the man can be sealed to his second wife without cancellation of the sealing to his now ex-wife. All of which means in the next life Polygamy will be seen as an acceptable form of marriage.

2. Women cannot be sealed to more than one man. Except those women whom Joseph and Brigham married who were already married.

Drifting wrote:...am I correct in stating that:

1. Men can be sealed to more than one woman. So if a wife dies a man can remarry and be sealed in the Temple to the second wife without cancellation of the sealing to the first wife. And if a divorce happens, the man can be sealed to his second wife without cancellation of the sealing to his now ex-wife. All of which means in the next life Polygamy will be seen as an acceptable form of marriage.

2. Women cannot be sealed to more than one man. Except those women whom Joseph and Brigham married who were already married.

Yes that is correct. The doctrine of polygamy has never been abandoned. It is even as you brought up practiced in a certain way today. The church has a policy not to undo a sealing to women that is divorced until they remarry in the temple. The more you think about it, the more it becomes apparent this was not coming from some God.

From Official Declaration Number 1.

I, therefore, as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, do hereby, in the most solemn manner, declare that these charges are false. We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.
Wilford Woodruff
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6, 1890

But was the President of the Church telling the truth?
It seems not...

Just as the practice of plural marriage among the Latter-day Saints began gradually, the ending of the practice after the Manifesto was also gradual. Some plural marriages were performed after the Manifesto, particularly in Mexico and Canada. In 1904, President Joseph F. Smith called for a vote from the Church membership that all post-Manifesto plural marriages be prohibited worldwide.
LDS.org 'Polygamy (Plural Marriage)'

And now, as Themis has pointed out.
Polygamy is alive and well and being lived by Latter Day Saints today.

Number 1 is correct. Number 2 used to be correct but since about 1997 is no longer correct. Deceased women can be sealed to all husbands to who they were ever legally married.

The "Sealing Ordinance" is not Polygamy.

It may be Plural Marriage, but it's not Polygamy.
Polygamy has a specific definition, behaviors, actions etc. that a simple Sealing Ordinance doesn't meet.

Of course, what's new with anti-mormons.

by the way, I could be wrong, but I think #1 has also changed now?
I've talked to a couple of Bishop's, because of my own marriage/divorce, and I believe they've said this? But, to be honest, I can't remember, wasn't paying attention too much. Too much else been dealing with.

ldsfaqs wrote:The "Sealing Ordinance" is not Polygamy.

It may be Plural Marriage, but it's not Polygamy.

Lol:

"Polygamy (Plural Marriage)...God, through His prophets, has directed the practice of plural marriage (sometimes called polygamy), which means one man having more than one living wife at the same time." - http://www.LDS.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=9887ec6f164b2110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

The important matter, as far as the law of the land is concerned, there are no members in good standing with the church of Jesus Christ of LDS who are actively and intimately engaged in the practice of polygamy in this life. I think that the government could hardly care less about our temple sealings involving the afterlife.

gdemetz wrote:The important matter, as far as the law of the land is concerned, there are no members in good standing with the church of Jesus Christ of LDS who are actively and intimately engaged in the practice of polygamy in this life. I think that the government could hardly care less about our temple sealings involving the afterlife.

Does a man being sealed to two women who are both alive count as Polygamy?

Does a man being to two women, one of whom s dead, count as polygamy?

Are you willing to have more than one wife either in this life or the next if the Prophet says God commands it?

Yes, technically those could be termed polygamous or plural marriages, but as I stated before, I don't believe that the government would care as long as there weren't more than one marriage which was intimate. For example (even though I'm sure that the church would not allow me to do it), if I married one wife whom I were intimate with, and I were sealed to another for the afterlife only, I don't believe that that would be something that the government would, or should, harass me about. In answer to your last question, yes! I would hope that the Lord would command me to have many wives! I wouldn't have a problem with that at all!

gdemetz wrote: In answer to your last question, yes! I would hope that the Lord would command me to have many wives! I wouldn't have a problem with that at all!

You're not married, right? If you are, ask your wife how she feels about you having many wives, either now or in the afterlife.

I'll wait until you've asked her. Good luck with that.