Random quote on LDS sealings and widows
Apr. 10th, 2010 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageFrom Wikipedia:
"In the case where a man's first wife dies, and then man remarries, and both of the marriages involve a sealing, LDS authorities teach that in the afterlife, the man will enter a polygamous relationship with both wives.
[...]
As of 1998, however, women may be sealed to more than one man. On page 72 of the 1998 edition of the Church Handbook of Instructions, the LDS Church created a new policy that a woman may also be sealed to more than one man. A woman, however, may not be sealed to more than one man while she is alive. She may only be sealed to subsequent partners after both she and her husband(s) have died.[44] Thus, if a widow who was sealed to her first husband remarries, she may be sealed by proxy to all of her subsequent husband(s), but only after both she and the subsequent husbands have died. Church leaders have not clarified if women in such circumstances will live in a polyandrous relationship in the afterlife. It should be noted, however, that proxy sealings, like proxy baptisms, are merely offered to the person in the afterlife, indicating that the purpose is to allow the woman to choose the right man to be sealed to, as LDS doctrine forbids polyandry."
How weird... I mean, I kind of understand it, but it still strikes me as rather... Half-assed? I dunno.
Also, fundamentalist Mormon communities, I have to wonder if they just don't care that large portions of the male kingdom simply can't make it to the celestial kingdom. Or maybe there's some sort of provision for them in the afterlife? Being sealed to children that are born then? Not that I pretend to have more than a surface understanding of LDS, fundamentalist or otherwise, theology.
Largely unrelated, I have to wonder if the person who created the Last Friends OP watched the Big Love OP (1:07) first... (BTW, wasn't the red string just the most subtle thing EVAR?! Although i guess to the average westerner, it would have gone largely unnoticed.)
P.P.P.P.P.S. The Hetalia parody of the Last Friends OP continues to be hilarious.
"In the case where a man's first wife dies, and then man remarries, and both of the marriages involve a sealing, LDS authorities teach that in the afterlife, the man will enter a polygamous relationship with both wives.
[...]
As of 1998, however, women may be sealed to more than one man. On page 72 of the 1998 edition of the Church Handbook of Instructions, the LDS Church created a new policy that a woman may also be sealed to more than one man. A woman, however, may not be sealed to more than one man while she is alive. She may only be sealed to subsequent partners after both she and her husband(s) have died.[44] Thus, if a widow who was sealed to her first husband remarries, she may be sealed by proxy to all of her subsequent husband(s), but only after both she and the subsequent husbands have died. Church leaders have not clarified if women in such circumstances will live in a polyandrous relationship in the afterlife. It should be noted, however, that proxy sealings, like proxy baptisms, are merely offered to the person in the afterlife, indicating that the purpose is to allow the woman to choose the right man to be sealed to, as LDS doctrine forbids polyandry."
How weird... I mean, I kind of understand it, but it still strikes me as rather... Half-assed? I dunno.
Also, fundamentalist Mormon communities, I have to wonder if they just don't care that large portions of the male kingdom simply can't make it to the celestial kingdom. Or maybe there's some sort of provision for them in the afterlife? Being sealed to children that are born then? Not that I pretend to have more than a surface understanding of LDS, fundamentalist or otherwise, theology.
Largely unrelated, I have to wonder if the person who created the Last Friends OP watched the Big Love OP (1:07) first... (BTW, wasn't the red string just the most subtle thing EVAR?! Although i guess to the average westerner, it would have gone largely unnoticed.)
P.P.P.P.P.S. The Hetalia parody of the Last Friends OP continues to be hilarious.
