"Big Love" Keeps it Real?

The issue is not the LDS church but the FLDS church which is a COMPLETELY different organization.

Does the LDS Church ask (not demand as someone posted) for a tithing of 10% so that you can go into the temple? Yes, but I know many people that pay tithing and are not LDS. So, big deal tithing is in the bible which states that you are stealing from God if you do not pay tithing.

The FLDS broke off in the early 1900's because a group of old men liked being married to multiple wives. The LDS Church ended polygamy over 100 years ago. Get over it! Even in countries where polygamy is legal, LDS church members MAY NOT be in polygamous relationships, that is not the case for pretty much any other namebrand christian religion which do allow for polygamous unions without question. If you are going to spout, at least know some basic facts. The FLDS church on the other hand actively practices polygamy and consanguity which has resulted in some inbreeding issues including fumerase deficiency leaving an iq of 25.

Thank goodness there are people here who are willing to set things straight! I was getting kind of ticked off when reading the comments added by people who just seem to want to stir things up.

The bottom line, if you ask me, is that in all religions, there are crackpots and rude people, and, of course, Mormons are not different in that respect.

But it's ridiculous to assert that we think our underwear is "magical" in some way (I can't remember who posted that, but it's pretty ignorant and idiotic a comment!) or that we advocate polygamy (we don't!) . In short, I'm going to echo David's comment and put it in all caps for the people who are too lazy to add or read anything that isn't caps-locked :

MORMONS AND FLDS========= NOT THE SAME!

94. "These women and children have been raised this way since birth, so they know no difference. It's like a Muslim child raised to hate America. It is all they know..."

Or like American children raised to think anyone with the right headwear or skin color is a terrorist, raised to hate people who aren't of their culture, color or religion, and raised to blindly pay taxes that support murderous dictatorships then spout the Stepford like mantra "They hate us for our freedom" when victims of our blood money protest. Ignorance and brainwashing isn't the sole domain of "others," but is instead equally rampant in American culture.

What's this about magical underwear?

This isn't about religious preference. Young girls are being forced to marry and are being raped. This is acceptable to some people?

By the way, "tithing settlement" is such that you sit down with your bishop and go over your yearly tithing record, to talk about any financial difficulties you might be having, and to square things up when and how you might be financially able. We consider it to be less between you and your bishop and more between you and God.

So.... just in case anyone got the idea that our bishops are demonic overlords of Satan and that Mormons are money-grubbing social-service-hounds, I thought I'd put that straight.

EXPERIENCE CAN INDEED BE A TEACHER BUT YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE LDS CHURCH TAUGHT YOU VERY LITTLE. NUMBER ONE THE PEOPLE IN TEXAS ARE A SECT OF THE CHURCH THAT WANTED TO CONTINUE PRACTICING POLOGMY WHICH IS ILLEGAL. THE LDS CHURCH OBEY THE LAWS OF THE LAND WE FEEL NO SPECIAL PRIVILEDGES SHOULD BE GRANTED DUE TO RELIGION. NUMBER TWO THE REASON POLOGMY WAS PRACTICED WAS DUE TO THE LOSS OF SO MANT AFTER THEY WERE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES IN NAHVOO. NUMBER 3 IF YOU WERE ALLOWED TO HAVE A SECOND OR EVEN A THIRD WIFE THE MALE MUST BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEM AND THE FIRST WIFE HAD TO GIVE HER CONSENT. THIS ENDED IN 1890 BECAUSE IT WAS AGANIST THE LAW AND UTAH WAS NOT A STATE UNTIL 1896. NUMBER FOUR THE REMARK ABOUT ROMNEY AND WACKOS IS SO IGNORANT THAT ONE WOULD WONDER IF YOU EVER SET FOOT IN A LDS CHURCH! ROMNEY WAS THE ONLY CHANCE WE HAD TO RETURN TO A PRESIDENCY RUN WITHOUT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS AND SOMEONE WHO COULD STRAIGHTEN OUT THE MESS BUSH HAS MADE. INSTEAD WE HAVE A HOTHEAD WITH A POTTY MOUTH THAT SINGS SONGS ABOUT BOMBING ANOTHER COUNTRY. A WOMAN WITH NO SCRUPLES WITH SOMETHING TO PROVE. THEN WE HAVE OBAMA A MAN PEOPLE LIKE OR DO NOT LIKE WITH LITTLE EXPERIENCE DEALING WITH WORLD ISSUES OR DOMESTIC ISSUES. YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO CALL MORMONS WACKOS? OH PPPLLEASSSE!

Yes, Mormons wear "magic underwear", others wear "magic crosses" "magic crucifix's" "magic beads" "magic chai's" "magic star of david's etc etc etc. We all have weird beliefs. The problem with the FLDS is they act on those weird beliefs that results in the injury of children, including rape, incest, withholding food as punishment, kicking boys off the compound and other crimes.

Hey you don't happen to have that dress in say - blue - do you? I can't decide if these are FLDS women are a gathering of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Society - Utah Chapter. Coming to CBS next season - Survivor - FLDS.

We think it's as disgusting and heart-wrenching as you do. I can't help but feel ashamed that the name of our church is even remotely close to theirs. That's probably something I shouldn't say, as an "example" of a member of the Mormon faith, but I'm only human, I guess. :-/

..hmmm, this is news we need to know? For your information (someone may have already said this), the other two were normal when the dude met them, and the other chic lived on the compound...so, really this is a non issue. Get a life, it's a show!!!!

That's not correct. You re giving the sanitized version of Mormonism.

FLDS and mainstream Mormonism have the same founder, JosephSmith., who practised polygamy himself. He had approx. 34 wives , many of whom he married behind his wife's back.

Polygamy was supposedly disbanded in 1890 but it just went underground. The last polygamous mainstream prophet was actually Heber J. Grant. When one of his two wives died he did not marry a third wife.

The main reason the Mormon church was persecuted in the 1800s was not because of the BoM but because they practised polygamy in secret, while lying about it in public.

Of course, it is not possible to keep anything secret for very long in the Mormon community.
When the Nauvoo Expositor threatened to expose Joseph's polygamy,among other problems, he had the printing presses destroyed.
Freedom of the press meant nothing to this bunch.

The Mormon underwear was established to mark the people who were practising polygamy in the 1800s. The garments are supposed to be a "shield and a protection" to the wearer. Of course this is humbug, like everything else in Mormonism.

Hmm. I should probably clarify that by saying that we try to abstain from passing judgment, even upon people as clearly misguided (in my opinion) as the FLDS... but I felt the need to draw a separation between the two churches just to alleviate some of the confusion that people are having in reference to which is which, et cetera.

My magical underwear are crotchless.

I'm not sure where your American children were raised, but my American children have not been raised to hate people who aren't of their culture, etc. Hey, one of my kids can't even use the gym we are paying for at certain hours of the day... seems the Muslims want it to themselves. And a local Junior High School is now having to deal with a lawsuit because they don't have footbaths in the restrooms. Oh yeah, the school says they will probably cut the music classes to pay for either the footbaths or the lawsuit. And Jeanie, how many LDS have blown up planes, or flown them into buildings or the ground? Or was it dumbass George Bush who just happened to be smart enough to pull those things off?