I just watched a show on the TLC channel called "Forbidden Love". There is a girl that is doing a documentary. She said that she has never been married, and wants to experience the different lifestyles that people are living....to see what it's all about before she walks down the aisle.
They did an episode tonight on Polygamy. She had to go out in the dessert in Arizona to different places to track down families that would even talk to her.
The one family...let her in their home. They lived in gigantic expensive, and beautiful and immaculate home. They are Mormons. Even though Polygamy is illegal...the way they get around it, is the man legally marries one woman, and then they bring in other women, and have "spiritual" marriages with the rest of the women. They believe that men should make as many babies as they can. She wanted to know why any woman would want to live like that. I find stuff like that to be fascinating on one hand, and completely nuts on the other... I just don't understand where people create these beliefs from...and why they believe in that...and other people don't. I thought the whole thing was crazy, and why would anyone want to do it, and then the girl got an answer...she was told that the women believe that in their "after life" they will become Gods/ Goddesses.
But, I never heard the reason as to why they feel that will happen, just because they have a bunch of children, and have what they were calling "plural marriages". I don't understand how they think that makes you a Goddess.
I was wondering if anyone followed that story in Texas where the 400 children were taken out of their homes....this documentary was filmed around that time period...that is why there was even more reluctance to do it. But, those children were all returned to their homes.
Personally...I don't get it. But, I like seeing how other people live...it makes me appreciate my life even more.
Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
i did follow that story in texas myself also and those woman were very strange to say the least the way they all dressed the same and wore plain hair-do's etc. kinda like the stepford wives? very creepy what possesses these women to do this? and why would you want to share one man with all these other women? i don't get it? i feel really bad for all the children they are the ones that really suffer from this!! dee
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