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elderolddog
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Date: March 26, 2021 06:10PM
I think it is quite fair to compare mormon-racism-against-the-Blacks and mormon 'whatever-it-ism' against-non-heterosexuals, don't you?
And when you make the comparison, what is one absolutely unavoidable speculation that really slaps the church right up-side the head?
Prior to say, the mid-1050s, was there any doubt in the corporate church mindset that the Blacks had been denied the priesthood and all its blessing via a commandment from ghawd?
And isn't that their current mindset with regard to "one man + one woman" comparable to the Black issue prior to the mid-1950s?
(which begs the question, what the hell happened to the Great & Everlasting Covenant?)
So why shouldn't there be an expectation that the church will eventually do the right thing? Well, two right things: give women the priesthood and allow same-sex marriage and polygamous marriage.
(In "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" author Robert A. Heinlein came up with "line marriage". Interesting notion...
For those with time on their hands, here's a fairly impartial explanation of Heinlein's idea:
"But I will first give a short impression of Heinlein’s concept of line marriage in The moon is a harsh mistress. In this novel the Moon is colonized by humans, the Lunar government is set up and run by the United Nations, while Lunar society is highly anarchistic. The primary purpose of the Lunar government is to ensure the delivery of grain to Earth, and the local population is mostly left on their own. All necessities of life are to be bought, even air.
In this harsh environment, it is not surprising that people are seeking cooperation. One of the forms described, and the only one actually discussed in detail, in The Moon is a harsh mistress, is the line marriage. In this kind of marriage, multiple people are married together, and in the course of time, new spouses are allowed to enter the line. In theory, such marriage can survive for generations, even if the original spouses have been dead for centuries. Since the potential durability of a line, all wealth collected by it will be kept together. The particular line described by Heinlein is highly self-sustaining, they produce their own food and recycle their own water.
Since the bond between the spouses, of both sexes, is based on mutual affection the members are ensured of assistance whenever required. Younger spouses take up the care of the elderly, children have virtually no worries about being orphaned."
https://republicoflagrangia.org/2013/01/23/line-marriage-as-an-alternative-of-the-state/