Posted by:
Cheryl
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Date: March 18, 2013 09:30AM
I'm telling the truth.
Some of the members within your ward might be polygamists.
There are hundreds of small plyg groups and thousands of non-group associated plyg families wherever there are mainstream mormons. The polygamists and plyg sympathizers often have callings and attend regular ward meetings. They like the community and some of them have faith in temples and like to keep a TR to participate in the rituals.
Some of my relatives are polygamists who particpate in regular wards while keeping their fundamentalist beliefs secret.
The bishops and other members are usually unaware or they sometimes look the other way.
I grew up in a home where we harbored polygamist wives married to our prophet of choice in trailers on our farm. On Sundays we attended mainstream mormon meetings and on Friday or Saturday nights we held meetings in our living room for polygamists. It was a small group with a dozen or so men half of whom had more than one wife and one prophet. This went on from the time I was six to about fifteen when the group fell apart and scattered.
I doubt the story I read on RfM this morning about a MP recruiting sister mishies as wives. But I can vouch for stories of polygamists in mainstream wards since I lived it and still have relatives continuing in the same way. Busy members often don't notice and not all wards are affected, but in a few parts of Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, and California it's more common than you might think.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2013 10:54AM by Cheryl.