Latter Day Struggles 97: The Toxic Twin Towers of Patriarchy & Polygamy
Series Title: Psychological Health Check on LDS Theology of Marriage & Family [Part III of XII]
In this third of a multi-part series, Valerie and therapist colleague Brannon Patrick continue to unpack the very multifaceted doctrine of eternal marriage.
In this episode Val and Brannon address the twin evils that profoundly impact every level of identity within the LDS church from the macro to the micro levels:
PATRIARCHY and it’s painful offspring, POLYGAMY.
Their analysis highlights that:
- while patriarchy continues to be institutionally endorsed, true partnership on any level [institutionally or within a marriage] can never be fully achieved, and that
- the eternal polygamy doctrine as currently still taught by the LDS church damages real-time marriage relationships and creates a corrosive power differential between partners that makes true healthy relationships of equality impossible to achieve unless/until this doctrine is rejected by both partners.
Val and Brannon invite us all [members at every level of the LDS church] to look honestly and with humility at the theological ideas that shape [or misshape] our implicit sense of worth, and work together to receive more truth and light that is more consistent with the nature of our divine parents and our Savior and their incompressible love for all of their children.
The doctrines discussed in today’s episode highlight the negative impact of institutionalized gender hierarchies both on earth and in the next life.
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