Wow. Putting aside my preference for adult attachment theory and my belief that we’re emotionally wired to not be with more than one partner at a time, where do you get the idea that some men have polygamous inclinations by nature? On that same note, what about the woman with inclinations to have multiple husbands? Perhaps she will not have to suppress them in the next life?

A woman would not be forced against her agency to stay with a man that marries another after her death if she doesn’t wish to. Surely a woman would be presented with a situation that she believes is more to her taste.

Furthermore take the case of a man who has polygamous inclinations by nature, but was born into a situation where he was commanded to be monogamous his whole mortal life, and has to suppress that in mortality. Such things are terribly difficult to deal with just as a homosexual must have a terribly difficult time if he would have an inclination that he finds difficult to live with. Surely, the Lord would not force such a man to go forever without the opportunity to have more than one wife in eternity. Neither would the Lord force a woman into a situation with such a person.

So for all you that find it distasteful, you go have it your way, and let people that find it tasteful and who have the inclination to have their belief their way. Not all women find it distasteful, and they are the ones that will want to be in such a relationship.

Everybody will have it the way they want it, as I see it. That is called agency.

Do what you want. If you only want to be sealed to one woman for all eternity then do it. But don’t make the mistake of assuming that a widower who remarries for eternity is dishonoring his late wife.

The things of God are only known by the spirit of God.

Dear Lord,

The saints have requested that I petition Thee for a revelation to define marriage in heaven. They have also submitted hundreds of petitions demanding that the revelation that Thou would’st give them is that marriage in heaven be defined as “one man married to one woman.”

Comment: I would not want to be in the position of taking such a request to the Lord.

I wonder what would happen if a few hundred wards around the country did this?

Let’s do it!

I asked my wife for her take on this and she re-worded the description as: the priesthood holder is a LINK to the end (rather than a MEANS). I liked that choice of words.

Re: If “eternal increase” is the primary benefit of a sealing, then how can a person “envision” that with a gay relationship ?

I can’t envision it. D&C 132:19 Describes the benefit of exaltation to be “a continuation of the seeds forever and ever.” Verse 63 of the same section adds: “that they may bear the souls of men: for herein is the work of my Father glorified.” Genesis 3:15 describes the seed of Eve as having the destiny of crushing the serpent’s head. This certainly sounds as if Eve was promised a continuation of seed that would defeat Satan’s work/glorify the work of the Father. That seed began with her perception of the need to enter mortality to obey the commandment to multiply. The Genesis and Moses accounts of Adam and Eve both teach that a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife, becoming one flesh.

I know that some have criticized the use of the Genesis account to defend marriage as between a man and a woman because they consider it allegorical. If someone is going to write a satirical slam based on a belief in the “importance of eternal marriage” as a veiled argument in favor of same-sex marriage, then discussing the teachings of the endowment and LDS scripture in refuting the argument seems like fair game.

Teachings of the Prophet
To Gain Salvation the Laws of God Must Be Obeyed
Section Six 1843-44, p. 332

I * * * spoke to the people, showing them that to get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded. Men may preach and practice everything except those things which God commands us to do, and will be damned at last. We may tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs, and still not obey and teach others to obey God in just what He tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular, I will always maintain a true principle, even if I stand alone in it. (Feb. 21, 1844.) DHC 6:223.

Since the idea that women are not special enough to possess multiple spouses in the eternities is by all measures a very popular principle in the Church today, I doubt that Joseph Smith, Jr., would have ever taught such an idea (especially since nothing about this popular notion is logical to or congruent with anything that Joseph Smith, Jr., ever actually did teach)!

Clay – that’s why I couldn’t watch Big Love anymore. just too weird.