Both polygamy and sodomy are mortal sins.  Yuck!

Wrong for a Catholic, yes.

But sodomy is a perversion of nature, and one of the sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance. Polygamy is not.

In fact, many of the Fathers of the Old Covenant had multiple wives, and this was sanctioned by God. So it's FAR FROM against nature for a man to support and be married to many wives. Think about it: many children result from such a union.

One woman with several husbands -- THAT would be backwards, both because women shouldn't be "mistress" of a harem of men, and because it would result in a shrinking of the population.

Jesus Christ raised the bar on marriage (and many other things!) and that is what we must live by now. But let's not be inaccurate or exaggerate in our assessment of things.

The Mormons try to be Old-Testament, but they are very messed up in many ways. But family-values wise, at least they aren't "twisted". They're just in error.

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Both polygamy and sodomy are mortal sins.  Yuck!

Wrong for a Catholic, yes.

But sodomy is a perversion of nature, and one of the sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance. Polygamy is not.

In fact, many of the Fathers of the Old Covenant had multiple wives, and this was sanctioned by God. So it's FAR FROM against nature for a man to support and be married to many wives. Think about it: many children result from such a union.

One woman with several husbands -- THAT would be backwards, both because women shouldn't be "mistress" of a harem of men, and because it would result in a shrinking of the population.

Jesus Christ raised the bar on marriage (and many other things!) and that is what we must live by now. But let's not be inaccurate or exaggerate in our assessment of things.

The Mormons try to be Old-Testament, but they are very messed up in many ways. But family-values wise, at least they aren't "twisted". They're just in error.

They have heretical doctrine about plural wives and heaven but when asked why the women will say to have Christian children.

Only the Fundamentalist LDS allow for polygamy, the "mainstream" LDS dropped the doctrine to become a state, and they constantly try to create PR  distance from the FLDS. They still accept the plural marriage after-life doctrine though.

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Jesus Christ raised the bar on marriage (and many other things!) and that is what we must live by now. But let's not be inaccurate or exaggerate in our assessment of things.

Just to clarify, because I otherwise concur with you. Monogamous marriage is the primitive (original) form of the family, as seen in Genesis. In relation to his time, Jesus raised the bar -- but viewed from a wider scope, he just put it back where it had always been.

Same thing with divorce: "From the beginning it was not so..."

[6] Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. [7] They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away? [8] He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.