Comment Re:Obvious question... (Score 1) 1002
I've known more than my fair share of mormons (being raised as mormon, until I stopped attending at age 17), and unless they keep it REALLY damn quiet, I have never known/heard of any mormons practicing polygamy.
However, there are at least a couple of different churches that have taken some mormon beliefs and went off on a tangent (Mormon Fundamentalist, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). But as far as the original (complete with Book of Mormon-toting door-to-door missionaries) Mormons preach, no polygamy has been church-sanctioned since mid 1800s. (And when they were practicing polygamy, it was for repopulation. Apparenly mucking about in the desert isn't easy.)
And I'm not being argumentative, just relaying what I was taught as a child/teen. I'm not much of a religious person.
However, there are at least a couple of different churches that have taken some mormon beliefs and went off on a tangent (Mormon Fundamentalist, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). But as far as the original (complete with Book of Mormon-toting door-to-door missionaries) Mormons preach, no polygamy has been church-sanctioned since mid 1800s. (And when they were practicing polygamy, it was for repopulation. Apparenly mucking about in the desert isn't easy.)
And I'm not being argumentative, just relaying what I was taught as a child/teen. I'm not much of a religious person.
