Episode 98: How Polygamy Affects LDS Doctrine, Policy, Theology, and Culture
Join Lindsay as she discusses how polygamy affects modern LDS doctrine and culture. Featuring special interviews with Claudia Bushman, Kristy Money, and Cami Ashby.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS
Links mentioned in this podcast:- Elder Russell M. Nelson discusses Mormon Celestial Marriage at the 178 General Conference
- Dialogue Article on the demographics of the Celestial Kingdom
- Chapter 7: Providing Temple Ordinances, Member’s Guide to Temple and Family History Work, (2012), 29–36
- MRM’s quotes about polygamy being essential
- LDS.org on the Three Degrees of Glory
- Bruce R. McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine
- Elder Quentin L. Cook, an Apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, appealed to news media in 2008
- Quotes at the end of the podcast by LDS leaders
- Polygamy as an Abrahamic Sacrifice–Dr. Valerie Hudson– Fair Mormon Podcast
Tags: 3 wives rule, celestial kingdom, lds, lds apostles, modern polygamy, mormon polygamy, mormons become god, three degrees of glory, year of polygamy
Trackback from your site.
Comments (7)
Liz
| #
Thank you! Thank you!
Reply
Jessica Deschaines
| #
What a great episode! Thank you for talking about the 3 degrees *within* the CK. I’ve so rarely heard members discuss that, and have gotten into heated disagreements about the topic in the past.
I will be so sad to see this project end. <3
Reply
Bet
| #
Thank you for this. I found this incredibly painful to listen to, especially the part where Elder Nelson talks about celestial marriage compared to the rest of marriages. I am a convert and I was married in the temple. Years later, I am embarrassed that I let a religion talk me into a wedding that would exclude my entire family. I mourn for the wedding ceremony I could have had if I had married in a public ceremony.
Reply
Noell
| #
Lindsay, this was absolutely an amazing episode. I know you put a lot of time into it and I want to say thank you!!!
Reply
Erin
| #
Lindsey, thank you so much for this. I just found this podcast and I do love it. I’ve been lds my whole life,I am only 19 years old and preparing to serve a mission in just a month. My entire familyisn’t Mormon anymore. It seems they study the history and they fall away. I was wondering why. when I went through the temple for my endowment I bawled afterwards, and not out of happiness. I could see the sexist undertones and they hurt me. I love that you aren’t afraid to bring this disscusionn out in the open and reveal the truth that had never been told to me. I think all of us should know the truth and the whole truth. It is a deep unconscious fear in every Mormon and I think it would do us good to bring it out and finally deal with it. Ignoring it doesn’t help. I just wanted to say thank you. For a while I believed that God rally did think his sons were more important than his daughters, but I realize that that’s not the godI know. I know that he loves me. I haven’t lost my faith. I wad just wondering are you still lds? How had studying this affected your faith?
Reply
Elder David A. Bednar: „Es gibt keine homosexuellen Mitglieder in der Kirche“ | openfaith.de
| #
[…] gibt in unserer Kirche Intellektuelle wie z.B. Lindsay Hansen Park, die sagen, dass Polygamie – und damit das Sexualverhalten unserer ersten …. Aber kann es vielleicht sogar sein, dass Joseph Smiths und Brigham Youngs Theologie in Bezug auf […]
Reply
Minderellah
| #
I came to a different conclusion about section 132 but now I understand that I was only partially correct. You’re able to state the problem in a much nicer way that I can. I now understand how polygamy affected my entire life — and I’ve never even been married.
Reply