The real story of polygamy

By: American Decency Staff

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Each week the TLC show “Sister Wives” paints a pretty picture of polygamy – a modern day “Brady Bunch.”  Each episode strives to normalize this sickening lifestyle and succeeds in doing so in the case of many undiscerning viewers.  Somehow the fact that polygamy is illegal is swept under the proverbial rug.  Instead, TLC gives a one-sided positive depiction of this warped lifestyle, while opposition to polygamy is portrayed as persecution. 

Well, as Paul Harvey would say, here’s the rest of the story.  Recently, we received this email from a woman who was raised in a polygamist family.  In this and ongoing communications with her, she sheds light on the truth of polygamy.

She writes:

To those with open minds,

 Note that the objective is to decriminalize polygamy, not to legalize it. Polygamists don’t want polygamy to be legal. If it were legal, men would have to accept the legal responsibility for their excessive families. Sure, any woman can file a paternity suit, BUT SHE CAN’T COLLECT if he already has a family that exceeds his capacity to provide or if his assets are held in a business, a ranch or a corporation in a name other than his own.

 Polygamy is not a “lifestyle.” it is an indoctrination where in men believe breeding with multiple mates makes them a God, but a disloyal woman should be “destroyed.” It is mind control where in those who don’t condone it, are in danger of losing their children, their salvation, and acceptance of their families and in some cases their lives.  Those of us who were raised with the teachings in Vol. 4 of the Journal of Discourses, know this is an inconvenient truth. Most polygamist families teach from these books today, complete with gender and racial bias as part of God’s plan.

 Polygamy is not held together by faith. The glue that binds polygamy is FEAR. This fear is the primary reason women endorse polygamy. The other two reasons are a lack of education or capacity to be responsible or provide for one self and or one’s children.

We polygamist children were taught from birth to sacrifice our body, mind and our rights.

The emotional and intellectual needs of women were considered weaknesses to overcome. Women had to accept polygamy with grace and pretend they liked it or be accused of being unholy and having an evil spirit. Yet none of these men could or would have tolerated what they demanded of women. If the men had to share their mate, they would realize that polygamy is in itself abuse. In polygamy suffering is not required by God but rather by greed. Polygamy is a form of slavery condoned through religion. Decriminalizing it would take human rights into the dark ages.

 … Where ever there are discrepancies in human rights, the abuse is always in direct proportion to the distance between the entitled and those not entitled. The extreme dual standard of polygamy creates a spawning ground for abuse.  … abuse should NEVER be decriminalized nor should it be presented in any civilized society as acceptable, normal or a “lifestyle”.

 R.K.

Born in polygamy

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This is exactly what TLC’s “Sister Wives” is doing – de-stigmatizing polygamy.  Those in rebellion against God’s innate law – in this case a happy-go-lucky polygamist family and a group of Hollywood elites – don’t want to submit to a moral law.  Instead, they strive to convince others to accept their sin as just a “lifestyle choice.”

And these lies are empowered by the advertisers who support the show.

Repeat advertisers include:  Hershey, Amazon, Barnes & Noble Nook, Comcast, 3M Scotch tape, Geico, Microsoft, and Advil (Wyeth Corp.).

New advertisers include:  Campbell’s soup (V8), Kitchen Aid; Bissell; Hamilton Beach; Nikon; MasterCard; and local advertiser Meijer supermarkets.

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