The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven

The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men

â€œPolygamy?â€ says the mainstream Mormon Church. â€œWe gave that up long ago.â€

Not so, claims noted LDS poet and author Carol Lynn Pearson, who examines the issue as it has never been examined before. Any member of the LDS Church today who enters the practice of polygamy is immediately excommunicated. However, Pearson claims, polygamy itself has never been excommunicated, but has an honored and protected place at the table. It has only been postponed, a fact confirmed by thousands of â€œeternal sealingsâ€ giving a man an assurance that he will claim as wives in heaven the two, three, or even more women he has sequentially married during his lifetime. No such opportunity is available to women. Through her own personal stories, those of her ancestors, and the thousands of stories that came to her through an Internet survey, Pearson shows the power of the Ghost of Eternal Polygamy as it not only waits on the other side to greet the most righteous in heaven, but also haunts the livingâ€”hiding in the recesses of the Mormon psyche, inflicting profound pain and fear, assuring women that they are still objects, harming or destroying marriages, bringing chaos to family relationships, leading many to lose faith in the church and in God.

Mormon historian and author Dr. Gregory Prince says of The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: â€œCarol Lynn Pearson has hit a home run in her quest to illuminate both the damage that Mormonismâ€™s de facto practice of polygamy continues to inflict, and the route to a better, more humane place. Those who truly hope for eternal polygamy or who resent any call to institutional reform will be upset, but countless others will rejoice that she has shown â€˜a more excellent way.â€™ â€
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-21
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-07-21
Format	Kindle eBook

The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men

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