Yes there are. A lot of people believe a lot of crazy things. It was ever thus.Fiannan wrote:And yet there are people who feel that polygamy is rising to the challenge of living a higher law.KMCopeland wrote: But this is another dispensation. We are supposed to be living a higher law now, not just regarding polygamy, but regarding all those unevolved, primitive customs of many thousands of years ago. I'd like to think we can rise to that challenge.
Women past their peak fertility years will have just as hard a time conceiving in a polygamous relationship as in a normal one. And considering all the excellent treatments for infertility now, selecting polygamy as a way to address it is some serious overkill.Fiannan wrote:This morning I went in for a health physical. In the waiting room there was a screen with various tips on healthy living, etc. One of the announcements however was for a large fertility clinic (part of a research hospital) that is desperately seeking sperm and egg donors. I would actually go in if I was in the age category they are seeking. The point is that more and more women are seeking sperm donations because they are in their 30s and unmarried and they don't want to miss their opportunity to have at least one baby.
That's not obvious because, again, entering into polygamy just so your children can know who their dad is, is a case of the cure being much worse than the illness. IMHO.Fiannan wrote:Polygamy would obviously be better for women willing to enter into it as their children would at least know their dad, as opposed to anonymous sperm donations.
And you think lesbian women would buy that argument? I don't know fiannan. You must know something I don't know. Which wouldn't surprise me at all.Fiannan wrote:Even LDS women entering into lesbian marriages could avail themselves of this as they could marry a worthy man; and even if they did use artificial insemination the children would be born into a male-female family.
I don't get the connection between frequency of sex and marrying a man for his name and his ability to father a child only. I really, really don't.Fiannan wrote:Anyway, considering that many LDS couples have very little sex anyway then what difference would it make if a lesbian LDS couple were to marry a man if only for his name and fatherhood
I'd love to see that scripture. But knowing the oddities contained in the darker recesses of the Old Testament, I'm not going to be surprised if you come up with it.Fiannan wrote: -- hey wait, doesn't the Bible predict that very thing for the future?