Someone recently used satire in South Carolina to expose many to an Orson Pratt quote:
“We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity by whom He begat our spirits as well as the spirit of Jesus His first born, and another being upon the earth by whom he begat the tabernacle of Jesus, as his only begotten in this world.” (The Seer, pp. 172-3)
I’m not sure who sent this card, and I’m not sure what their motivations were, but I’m glad that the public is being exposed to this. I’m sure some Mormons are hoping their institution will take this opportunity to distance itself from the content of the quote, but the fact is that the Mormon Church today takes no official position on whether God is polygamous or whether God the Father was married to his spirit daughter Mary, so don’t be deceived by any impression that the Orson Pratt quote is mutually exclusive to the Mormon worldview.
