Mormons May Bring Back Polygamy if Tom Green Case Overturned - 5 Dec 2003
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...A Christian pastor with a ministry geared toward winning Mormons to Christ says he expects the LDS Church could reinstate polygamy if a convicted polygamist is successful in getting his case thrown out. In 1890, the Mormon Church officially renounced polygamy. But may followers did not go along with the change and continued the practice. Some 30,000 polygamists remain in the West, including Tom Green, who was convicted of four counts of bigamy in 2001. But now his attorney contends that conviction needs to be thrown out, based on this summer's Supreme Court decision striking down the Texas sodomy law. Joel Kramer with Living Hope Ministries believes that if Green is successful in legitimizing polygamy, the LDS Church would bring it back. "It would seem that if it became legal in the country that the LDS Church, as it does so often, would get a revelation from God all of a sudden that would say that now it's legal again within the context of Mormonism," he says. "I would expect that." Kramer says polygamy is part of Mormon history -- both in its past, and perhaps in its future. Kramer's ministry has recently produced a video about new DNA research that could spell disaster for the Mormon Church. |