Polyamory

[Thoughtful Monk]

Now that the LGBTQ+ movement has essentially won and is simply mopping up the last resistence, I've been wondering what movement is coming next.

According to this article, https://www.realclearinvestigations....on_122979.html, it is going to be Polyamory and they will be using the same playbook that LGBTQ+ used. Given how society has changed in the last 30 years, I'm presuming the movement will be successful.

Here's what I think the impact will be:

• Many churches will become more "spiritual and not religious" and become even more Christian-in-name only.
• It will become harder to find churches or believers who hold to traditional marriage.
• Churches that want to stay faithful to the Bible will have to accept they'll have smaller membership.
• Christians will be more ostracized in public especially the media.
• The government will start taking over the role of Christianity (and other religions in society) and provide some form of spiritual services.

Is it time for Christians (especially on the conservative end) to:

• Concede they will be a minority in the new America
• If they believe America was founded as a Christian nation, say it's time to concede America is no longer a Christian nation
• Start planning for some form of persecution and smaller membership rolls

What do you think?

[Sparko]

Well if it does become legal, I predict that the Mormon church will get a new revelation saying God approves of polygamy once again.

[Thoughtful Monk]

Well if it does become legal, I predict that the Mormon church will get a new revelation saying God approves of polygamy once again.

Yuuuup. Also what's left off the mainstream Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, etc. will discover that God really approved of it after all, they'll have clergy participating, services to bless it, and they'll repent of their opposition to it.

[QuantaFille]

Well if it does become legal, I predict that the Mormon church will get a new revelation saying God approves of polygamy once again.

I agree. I think their recent relaxing of rules regarding homosexuals is calculated to put them in better footing to demand that polygamy be made legal. Otherwise they'd be shut down as hypocrites who demand their own peculiar view of marriage be made legal without extending the same courtesy to others. I think that if polygamy is made legal in the near future, it will be in large part due to the efforts of Mormons.

[KingsGambit]

The one thing that makes me wonder... The Bible *does* say that some of David's extra wives were gifts from God. So that makes me hesitant to outright say that polygamy is evil.

[Thoughtful Monk]

I agree. While I think it's a shaky case, one can make a Biblical case that polyarmoy is acceptable maybe. I remember reading about Christian Polygamy (not necessarily Mormon, either) groups about 20 years ago.