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Date: March 08, 2021 07:26AM
I began to think about this after the Mitt Romney inspired "Mormon Moment" that attempted to mainstream a fringe cult version of American protestant Christianity.
But, a decade later, what common cause keeps them them together?
Underneath all the religious mumbo-jumbo about revelations, fake pre-Columbian history of the Americas, Kolob, the War In Heaven, men becoming gods, etc, post WW2 Mormonism has had another purpose shared with their Evangelical co-conspirators: preservation of the predominance of a "white" America and the heterosexual, cisgendered, classical nuclear biologcal family in the face of vast social and demographic change.
I put "white" in quotes because it is an artificial social concept that has been expanded over the last couple of hundred years. Likewise, the modern concept of "family" has also changed to include people who are not biologically related to each other. It's a common theme in film and television -- a father figure, a substitute mom, kids, etc. all bond together as a family -- so why the hue and cry when this happens in real life?
They are fighting a losing battle and they know it. Fifty years from now, no one is going to care about who dates whom, who marries whom, what colour they are, what genitals they had or have and they will be able, if they wish, to reproduce at will by any number of means. Humans will still be human and how they bond together with each other will be different -- and there will still be families. There always will be.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/2021 10:42AM by anybody.