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Old 10-23-2014, 05:14 PM   #1
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Default The church tackles polyandry

https://www.lds.org/topics/plural-ma...uvoo?lang=eng2
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Old 11-06-2014, 08:07 PM   #2
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So there have been some facebook kerfuffles over this, but not to the extent that Ordain Women caused.
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Front page news on CNN, NYT, BBC.
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Yeah. An atheist friend asked me about my opinion on this. I said it's old news to me, but some Mormons were blindsided by it.
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Funny that it's such big news.
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I'm surprised as well, as it wasn't about gays, feminists, or Mitt Romney.
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Article talking about how the church will change its views on gays.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...lation_to.html

Not exactly the faithful take on things.

There's a grain of truth there. It wasn't like Spencer Kimball said "really weird thing happened, out of nowhere, God came to me and told me we need to give black folks the priesthood. Weird. Never saw that coming."

Rather it was a process that had been stewing for decades, with a lot of thought, arguments, and disagreements among senior church leaders (i.e. apostles).

The faithful take is that God allows his servants to work it out and when the time is right, he will put his seal of approval on it. In ways, not so different than many of us have experienced in our own lives.
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Anything's possible.

By the way, in his new book, Terryl Givens said that would never happen because male-female complementarity is at the heart of Mormon theology. The priesthood ban has no known revelatory origin.
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It would be hard to understand a same-sex theology, i.e. same-sex celestial sealing.

A more likely scenario is a theology that would permit same-sex marriage, but say it is just for time and not eternity.

Which would lead to cries of "bias" etc.

But I think part of the problem here is that we don't have a theology that makes sense of same sex attraction.
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Yesterday was a weird day on the internet. Two of the top stories were Joseph Smith's 40 wives and Kim Kardashian's naked butt.
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