Polygamy and Homosexuality: The Link

Hi! We did not post all last year! The main reason may be that we have been enjoying a new church and learning how to actually worship God and how to actually study the Bible. It's a small local Bible church, but growing rapidly. Every Sunday we talk to people who are in the process of leaving the LDS church. Our prayers for new friends have been answered to overflowing. In spite of complications with our family and friends, we have never been so happy and confident in the Lord.

Who knew there was so much to learn and love and rejoice in and find rest in through Jesus Christ in God's Word? Who knew we could praise and glorify God singing 6 or 7 lively songs about Christ who was born, lived, taught, died for our sins, and was raised as if it is Christmas and Easter every Sunday? Who knew we could eat up 40-minute Sunday sermons based on one or two Bible verses taken in context and applied to our everyday lives and go home rejoicing every week? Who knew we could enjoy Bible study classes with Christian friends multiple days/nights a week? Who knew it doesn't matter what you wear or what your past has been or what "callings" you have held? Who knew it's all about loving God and becoming a new creature in Christ? As rubber-stamp Mormons we certainly didn't know any of these things.

 It was when we came to Christ that we found ourselves no longer welcome in the Mormon church and began our long journey out of it and into truth and healing and real worship of God.

So that is what's been happening. We hope and pray any readers we still have will experience God's saving grace as we have, and be confident in the assurance of salvation through Christ this very day (something priceless that Mormons never have).

On to the topic of this post, the link between polygamy and homosexuality---and also every other out-of-bounds sexual lust, perversion, and preoccupation. As a wise woman wrote, "Sex is a serious thing. If it is misused somebody gets hurt."

We are looking at this topic from a lifelong-Mormon-recently-seeing-the-light perspective, as in how polygamy was instituted in the early church, how many splinter groups emerged when the mainstream church gave it up (or rather pretended to), how facts about this historical practice have suddenly been admitted to by the mainstream LDS church itself, how practicing splinter groups are being exposed for their many atrocities common to the practice, how the internet is making these facts and push-backs highly public, and how there is a glaring crucial blind spot concerning homosexuality inherent in these ex-Mormon anti-polygamy, yet always pro-gay, conversations. Yes, most ex-Mormon channels and podcasts are pro-gay no matter what they are talking about. It always pops up how ignorant, cruel, and hateful the Mormon church is toward gays. But here we are particularly discussing the glaring blind spot linking polygamy and homosexuality coming from ex-Mormons.

Once the Biblical boundary of marriage between one man and one woman is crossed, say, be it through adultery or its euphemism polygamy, we submit that there is no reason to have any boundaries at all. Granted, this boundary may be crossed in many ways, such as child abuse and pedophilia, incest, pornography, rape, sex trafficking, prostitution, the list goes on. But here we are concerned with a strange phenomenon in which those who are adamantly against the horror of polygamy are outspoken in favor of homosexuality. That terrible blind spot.

We know why this is happening. It is happening because today's culture has utterly accepted all things homosexual to the point of  granting this particular lust/behavior a special identity, special celebration, and special rights, no questions asked, no thinking required, and no health warnings issued. And having jumped on the virtue-signalling band wagon without any critical thinking, the lgbtetc brainwashing within many people's minds is complete. While they can see the abuses in polygamy and of course child sexual abuse, they can't see past the end of their own noses when it comes to homosexuality, which is certainly inordinately fraught with illnesses and abuses and tragedy and death.

Bear in mind, this is not true of  LDS church leaders, past and present. It is our opinion that they most certainly know. They know these sexual perversions are wrong and harmful. They know Joseph Smith was a conniving scoundrel---in many ways, including seducing women in God's name. Otherwise, why did they cover up his sexual and other shenanigans for nearly 200 hundred years? And now, when they finally are forced to admit them (probably for legal/financial reasons) because of the pervasiveness of information on the internet, why else would they continue to unscrupulously whitewash these facts unless they knew?

Yes, the leaders know, and don't care. They are only concerned with their corporation, their personal gain, their fame, their power over the peons, and their standing in the world. This is a corporation richer than Google or Disney. They know exactly what they are doing and why. This is nothing new in the history of mankind. Human corruption is a broken record, playing over and over again. But the LDS members, the ordinary trusting members, don't know. And apparently neither do many of the ex-members who on this topic seem to have traded one set of man-made beliefs for another set of man-made beliefs: We don't believe in Mormonism anymore; instead we believe in all the woke ideologies that have become popular around us in the last few years. Voids have a way of getting filled, for good or evil.

Many ex-Mormon podcasts and YouTube videos, and as a result, many vulnerable ex-Momons, as part and parcel of leaving the church, along with exposing polygamy as truly terrible, are lgbtetc affirming. We submit in this post that this makes no sense. For one thing, if they had stayed a little longer in the LDS church, they would have found it to be more and more pro-gay itself, at least looking the other way and allowing all things lgbtetc to infiltrate the church by leaving these issues up to local leaders who are all over the map politically and even morally. Left-leaning inclusivity is seeping into the LDS church big time. (here and here and here and here and here) It has given up many of its hardcore doctrines in favor of mainstreaming. (You can bet they reeeeeally wanted a Mormon U.S. president and still do.) This is nothing very new for the church, as we know it eventually gave up polygamy, and even pretended to demonize it, to advance in the country and world. The way things are going, it ought to bring it back soon for those same reasons!

Another reason being anti-polygamy but pro-gay makes no sense is because both stem from being out of God's boundaries for human sexuality. An honest thorough thinker can see this. Once a man's conscience is seared to the point where he can look at any number of females with lust and get them to "marry" him, what is to stop him from lusting after anyone and anything? This may be shocking for some people until you put your squeamishness aside and look at the human male honestly. Warning, this may get graphic. Males like the sensation of sex. They like the pressure and the friction. This is unique to men in its own way. If a man is not concerned about his wife's emotional well-being or physical comfort, he will not have the empathy, love, and patience it takes for her to prepare for penetration. Even if, or especially if, a man has unlimited (lonely? jealous?) women at his beck and call, he may get impatient, even bored. Since women do not or should not allow sodomy to be committed on them, the man may fantasize about sodomy with men. Indeed, there are many instances when men involved in adultery, polygamy, incest, etc. also stray into homosex.

 Anyway, that's our Biblical stance.