No!
I noticed a little while ago that the Church was so serious about actively spreading word that the LDS Church does not condone or practice polygamy that it was advertising the Newsroom.lds.org website.
Those same ads are still showing up in Google ads but they are now pointing to MormonsandPolygamy.org. It’s a one page site with a video of President Hinckley explaining the Church’s policy on polygamy, links to various resources, and tools to spread the word (including social bookmarking).
They even include a button to link the page that you can put on your own site.
Unfortunately, I can’t get the code to work for me right now. But I would recommend linking to it to boost its page-ranking and give it more notice in the search engines.
MORE: Thanks Bryce for the solution to fixing the code.
Tags: Mormon Church, newsroom.lds.org, polygamy
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Can Mormon men seal more than one woman in eternal marriage?
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The badge code works if you put a “www” before the web address of the image in the code. Not sure why it doesn’t work without it. I’ve added the badge to my website.
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To answer the post title question: My understanding is that some Mormons still practice polygamy. There are still living widowers who were sealed to their spouse in the temple, only to marry a second time for all eternity. The law doesn\’t recognize this as polygamy, but we LDS recognize it as being sealed (married) to two wives at the same time, one spouse living, one spouse dead. So, using the world\’s definition of polygamy, which believes in marriage dissolution at death despite the words or religious priesthood used in the temple sealing, we can say we don\’t practice it, but as LDS who recognize this ordinance as valid beyond the grave, we must say we do still practice it. So, the answer to the question, Do Mormons Practice Polygamy? is \
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The question is if you couldn’t live with your spouse on Earth,
what makes you think it will work in Heaven. My non-Mormon
sister-wife [sort of] is desperate to feel that my ties to my ex
are compleatly severed. He wanted to put me through college.The saddest thing was that she was desperate to get his
grandmother to understand that he and I are completly
divorced and their child [now in college] was completely
respectable and legitimate. Some of her friends and
most of her mother’s were married in polygamy.Her husband dealt with money and the outside world so
she never would have considered it. Actually, we don’t
speak about these things, they are sacred to us, and
no, this wasn’t anything some lawyer just came up with.We really don’t. Her desperate haranging of a very old
woman– It’s was like squeezing sand in your fingers–
the harder you squeeze, the less sand you have to hold
in your hand. His Grandmother knew that it was
her Grandson’s wife who wasn’t getting it, never
would.She was yelling at me as she told the story. She
doesn’t beleive it, so what does it matter? There
is something between us hard and adamant as
diamond.Why did we part–it’s so Talmudic. I got very, very ill
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The church doesn’t practice polygamy, nor has it ever. Now *polygyny*, on the other hand…
[David B wanders off, muttering about specificity in word choice and other such things.]
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I recommend all Mormons read a book entitled “Under the Banner of Heaven” by John Krakauer about the true history of the Mormon church. Its got everything-betrayal, fraud, infidelity, polygamy, pedophilia, brainwashing, racketeering. Its all an agnostic needs to completely pull him over the line of atheist.
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Vanbren5 -
Thanks for the heads up but Banner is hardly a history, true or otherwise of the Mormon Church. It’s a very partial and slanted version that sold some books to those who already didn’t like organized religion.
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