How was polygamy discussed in the Mormon religion to promote and implement it as a positive acceptable religious concept because it seems a win lose proposition for the female?

Answer 1

For one, polygamy was taken out of church doctrine a very long time ago. We must take into account that it was not 'discussed'. It was required of the Lord at that time because of the few men due to winter, mobs, etc. It was so women could have a place to live and food to eat.

Answerpolygamous union. In such a marriage a woman who was the first wife or the "Sarah" (as in The Bible), had the say over whether the man brought another into the family.

It actually became a very comfortable relationship for many blood sisters who married the same man. They were able to continue close relationships for their entire lives.

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• Is Polygamy Part of God's Plan for Marriage?
• Plural Marriage
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Answer

What I learned in US History: way back when the Mormon religion was first established, women had little to no rights as US citizens. Therefore, when a husband died, leaving behind his widow and children another man in the community (who was usually married at the time) would marry her and take in the children to raise as his own. In that way, the woman was not left fending for herself with a bunch of kids, because no doubt there were no condoms or Birth Control at the time.

It started out innocent enough, until men started getting greedy and marrying multiple girls just for the thrill of it. THEN it became a no-win situation for the women.

ClarificationWomen's Suffrage, the right of women to vote, was won twice in Utah. It was granted first in 1870 by the territorial legislature but revoked by Congress in 1887 as part of a national effort to rid the territory of polygamy. It was restored in 1895, when the right to vote and hold office was written into the constitution of the new state. In sharp contrast to the long fight for women's suffrage nationally, the vote came to Utah women in 1870 without any effort on their part. Earlier an unsuccessful effort to gain the vote for women in Utah territory had been launched in the East by anti-polygamy forces; they were convinced that Utah women would vote to end plural marriage if given the chance. Brigham Young and others realized that giving Utah women the vote would not mean the end of polygamy since most of the Mormon women supported polygamy, but it could change the predominant national image of Utah women as downtrodden and oppressed and could help to stem a tide of anti-polygamy legislation by Congress. With no dissenting votes, the territorial legislature passed an act giving the vote to women on 10 February 1869. The women were apparently a lot less "downtrodden" than the majority of women in the rest of America.

Support for polygamy among LDS women probably stemmed from two sources: 1) personal conviction that it was a commandment from God, and 2) polygamy could be a source of security in a frontier area where suitable men were sometimes scarce. Note that members of the LDS church don't develop their doctrine based on long debates and contentious votes to determine what the majority believes it should be. Rather, they believe that God reveals the doctrine to LDS church leaders who are then responsible to teach it and abide by it to the best of their understanding.

Alternate AnswerPlural marriage was seen as part of the "restoration of all things," and as a higher order of marriage than that practiced at the time. It was seen as necessary for attaining exaltation, and promised blessings not available to those who would not participate in the practice.

Utah-era plural marriage offered women who participated in it a home and a promise of exaltation in the world to come. Not every man who engaged in the practice was a model of caring and concern, but neither was it generally characterized as harem building for the sexual gratification of men and the degradation of women in the fashion it was characterized by contemporaries. Some plural wives were sent East for college education while their sister-wives saw to their homes and children, providing some of the early doctors and attorneys in early Utah.