I have been very vocal on this blog that I am a fan of plural marriage.  Not that I have the ability or desire to live it (my goal is to live simply and without complications – and that form of living seems like it would be fraught with complications of so many kinds) – but that I believe that our past supports it full implementation and that it is the highest form of consecration (sadly, especially if you are female).   It would take the faith of the individuals to the extreme level in order to pull it off.  Also, charity and so many other points.  For a while, we had my MIL living in our home as she is aging.  In the end, my wife – probably the most patient of people – could not get along with her (a highly dysfunctional woman) and it was part of the reason we literally bolted for Cardston last fall.  I had to save the sanity of my wife when things finally came to a head.  So, I have experienced the difficulty of trying to pull off the intricacies of female relationships (given that my MIL is one of of the more selfish people I have ever known – and not given to living a terrestrial or higher lifestyle).  I know that, with the best of circumstances, two good people will have difficulty getting along (and that does not even factor in the complexities of intimacy with all of those loaded issues).

So, on the surface, I say NO THANKS!!  But, I also know that it is a sifting institution where all people can be refined at the highest rate possible; the greatest bang for the spiritual buck, so to speak.  It was something that gave Emma Smith fits – and many others among the spouses of the earlies.  Most would/will fail at it – simply because it is difficult in the extreme.  I also know that Isaiah 4:1 (click link) is coming in the future – when most men are wiped out due to war/famine/pestilence.  There will be few left to fill the role of providing posterity.  So, I expect it to rise once again as a practice.  I am looking forward to it even though I may not be among those elect who are called to live it.  I simply may not be spiritually of a level where I could do it.  I may not be alive for that.

What it does signify for me (and possibly my posterity who do live in “those days”), is that it means that the dead wood has been purged and that the millennium is in full effect.  It means that Consecration (in it’s highest form) is being lived and that good has crushed evil for nearly 1,000 years.  It means that Christ and His people have gotten the victory.  No more corruption.  No more lies.  Just peaceful living in a near-perfect world.  So, yes.  I do support the practice – because I know what it means for the world.

Here are some stats that kind of shocked me.  I had no idea the ratios were as bad as they are already – even before the purging.  I know they are terrible down in Brazil in that 4 out of 5 of those sisters that I served with have had to marry outside the Church in order to have children.  Most have experienced divorce, as well, probably due to the stress of the asymmetrical relationship.  Marriage is difficult enough without having to deal with radical differences of value sets.  So, yes.  I do see plural marriage as a solution to the problem we have.  Just when and where and how remains to be seen:

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I would love anecdotal input out there that backs this article one way – or the other.

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