Last General Conference they announced 20 new Temples. I wanted to scream.
Why not 20 homeless shelters, 20 children’s hospitals, 20 soup kitchens, 20 new schools, 20 cancer research centers, 20 libraries? Why not 20 military hospitals in Ukraine? Or since we are so into wars and rumors of wars how about 20 F16’s for Ukraine?
No. It’s 20 shitty movie theaters with no popcorn!!
Go on a mission for 3 to 7 years and we’ll take your wife, or don’t go and we’ll take your wife and have our way either way. General Conference 1852.
If the numbers of men and women in a community are about even....
The mathematics of polygamy doesn’t work very well.
If the number of wives a man has is directly inked to entering Heaven and their status there, it is important to create opportunities to acquire more women.
I have found at least ten things that 19th Century Mormons did to offset the math.
1. Marry very young girls. 14, 15 and even younger.
2. Send men on extremely long missions. 3 years or more...So they aren’t marrying until about 24 or 25.
3. Allow some missionaries who were already married to date and find new wives on missions,
4. Marry other men’s wives.
5. Send men to war like the Mormon Battalion.
6. Specially target single women on missions.
7. Threaten men if they dated some girls and even kill and castrate.
8. Excommunicate men for small offenses to push them out of competition.
9. Allow wealth to accumulate in the hands of leaders.
10. Push young couples out of Salt Lake to other settlements so that leaders got first pick of immigrant women.
Other related posts:
Joseph Smith is a Sexual Predator
Brigham Young had a favorite wife
Who is keeping the law of chastity?
She also is another example of the Mormon exploitation of young girls.
She lost her father and two sibling in 1857 to cold and starvation in the handcart tragedy. In 1860 her mother died from a scorpion bite.
As an orphan at age nine she was sent to be raised by a step sister and her husband George.
For five years she was raised as their child but at the age of 14 years and 10 months she was married to George as his second polygamous wife.
Ten months later at age 15, she had her first child.
She had four children by age 22 when George died and she was left with four young children.
By age 33 she had left the Mormon church and married to an Episcopal Dentist. There is some evidence that her children were taken from her when she left the LDS Church.
She died at age 71.
Sources:
Because of an excessive building program and other causes, in the late 1950s the Church was once again in a financial crisis. The Presiding Bishopric hence commissioned this film of the BYU Motion Picture Studio to help in a reformation similar to that in 1899; the brief was for a film on tithing, and Scott Whitaker struck upon this particular story.
Both the scope of production and publicity for the film were the greatest of any BYU film up to this point. The thirty minute commission grew into a fifty minute production--their longest yet--and hundreds of Church members were involved, including Harold B. Lee, who scouted for period locomotives. The members in St. George, including some who had been present in the actual meeting with President Snow, were particularly stallwart in creating this film, which they saw as their story. President David O. McKay, who had also known President Snow, was greatly moved, and after a St. George premiere it was distributed throughout the wards and missions and became BYU's most popular film; it effected a similar retrenchment in tithing, and the financial crisis was solved.
Scott Whitaker's script was apparently based primarily on the writings of Lorenzo Snow's son LeRoi. In his article, E. Jay Bell discusses several of the differences between the historical and the filmic events, foremost among them the fact that President Snow never mentioned anything about rainfall in connection with tithing.
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