Talking Big Love: Part Two, conclusion
We gathered a few people together to see what they thought of the premiere episode of HBO's new series "Big Love." The edited comments below are excerpted from a panel comprised of activists who want the state to take a harder line against polygamy and ex-members of several polygamous groups.
The third episode of "Big Love" airs Sunday.
On the ties that bind
Vicky Prunty, co-founder of Tapestry Against Polygamy who was part of two plural marriages: It's not the love bond, it's the religious bond. That's the cohesive, the glue of the marriage that keeps these families together.
It's not that these people aren't human. There is love, there are emotions. There is hate, envy, strife. There's goodness, unselfishness, all those those things are included in polygamy. It's just the coercive nature that nearly every one Tapestry works with [has experienced]. It is founded on religious coerciveness.
John Llewellyn, a former member of the Apostolic United Brethren and author of the critical book Polygamy Under Attack: If a guy is going to keep his family together, he has to keep reminding them of the covenants they took and of the Doctrine and Convenants [LDS scripture] because it is the priesthood that is the bonding.
When that guy went up to the prophet and said, "You're not going to get all that money, right there and then he would have taken those wives away from him.
[On free agency] The first wife reminded the second wife and the third wife, "Hey, we chose this," implying free agency. Would you like to explain what free agency is among the fundamentalists? Free agency implies absolute freedom, but the fundamentalist concept of free agency implies punishment if you don't make the correct choice. Now, that is not free agency in my mind.
Christy Tucker, a former member of the Kingston group: [On free agency] You get to choose if you want to go to heaven or not. They should have addressed that, when they said, "We've chosen to be here together." We've chosen to go to the celestial kingdom and this is the only way that we can get there.
We were always taught that if you don't live polygamy, you aren't a polygamist, when you get to heaven you'll only be a ministering angel.
The third episode of "Big Love" airs Sunday.
On the ties that bind
Vicky Prunty, co-founder of Tapestry Against Polygamy who was part of two plural marriages: It's not the love bond, it's the religious bond. That's the cohesive, the glue of the marriage that keeps these families together.
It's not that these people aren't human. There is love, there are emotions. There is hate, envy, strife. There's goodness, unselfishness, all those those things are included in polygamy. It's just the coercive nature that nearly every one Tapestry works with [has experienced]. It is founded on religious coerciveness.
John Llewellyn, a former member of the Apostolic United Brethren and author of the critical book Polygamy Under Attack: If a guy is going to keep his family together, he has to keep reminding them of the covenants they took and of the Doctrine and Convenants [LDS scripture] because it is the priesthood that is the bonding.
When that guy went up to the prophet and said, "You're not going to get all that money, right there and then he would have taken those wives away from him.
[On free agency] The first wife reminded the second wife and the third wife, "Hey, we chose this," implying free agency. Would you like to explain what free agency is among the fundamentalists? Free agency implies absolute freedom, but the fundamentalist concept of free agency implies punishment if you don't make the correct choice. Now, that is not free agency in my mind.
Christy Tucker, a former member of the Kingston group: [On free agency] You get to choose if you want to go to heaven or not. They should have addressed that, when they said, "We've chosen to be here together." We've chosen to go to the celestial kingdom and this is the only way that we can get there.
We were always taught that if you don't live polygamy, you aren't a polygamist, when you get to heaven you'll only be a ministering angel.
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