…It is necessary sometimes for the saints to make sacrifices for the good of their fellowmen, that the honorable ones of the earth perchance may be saved. This is one of those times. There are, he said, about 300 plural wives among the saints who are bearing children, as against the body of the church—say 350,000—who are not in polygamy. These 300 women for the good of the nation and of the church should be willing for a time to refrain from having children. They would lose nothing by it, for the Lord would reward them abundantly.
Though no formal vote was taken the brethren generally seemed to endorse the views of President Snow. Meeting adjourned sine die.”
Leviticus 19:11; “Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another”.
First of all wouldn’t telling the truth be the best for your fellow church men and women?
Secondly, how is telling the truth a sacrifice?
Thirdly, there were a lot more than a measly 10% of the Mormons who were practicing polygamy at that time. My family is proof of that. They were no one special in the upper ranks of Mormonism and in the past the Church has claimed only a select few were doing this.
If my family who was just the average Mormon was practicing polygamy you can be sure more than 10% was involved.
And last but not least – the only way to heaven is through childbirth as we saw just a couple of days ago, so how do they justify not having kids?