Of course, my friends have been ribbing me about becoming a "first wife," teasing me that my husband, Greg, will surely feel the pressure to take on additional (younger, prettier, richer??) wives. HA! Fortunately for me, I KNOW that Greg would become as wobbly as melting jello if there was another woman in the house bemoaning her cramps, demanding his attention, and nagging him with her honey-do-right-now list.
The Mormons who make up a good chunk of the spiritual population in Salt Lake City no longer practice polygamy. Haven't for years. Yes, there are some splinter Mormon groups who have continued the practice (which inspired the widely-popular HBO drama Big Love), but the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints does not condone the practice -- though it was handed down as a right by church founder Joseph Smith.
Mormons believe many things I'm having trouble getting my head around (ie: the fact that Joseph Smith rewrote the bible to "correct" it, that Mormons put so much stock in the Book of Mormon, and that God is not the architect of the universe), but I'm looking forward to making some good Mormon friends -- if they'll let me.
Word on the street is that if you're not Mormon, it's not likely you'll be invited into their circle. Not that Mormons are rude or unfriendly. It's that they like to hang out with peeps who share a common vision of what life -- and the afterlife -- is supposed to be about.
But maybe I'll get lucky and be offered a cup of iced lemonade by some of them. Which would be lovely, as I hear the Salt Lake summers swelter! ;-)
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