A scene from the HBO series Big Love has stayed with me for the past few days. The 3 wives were congregated in the kitchen discussing the neighbors proposition for Margie (the 3rd and youngest wife, from a previous "normal" life) to be a surrogate mother to her and her husband. Margie felt she had the right to choose whether or not she wanted to accept. Nikki (the 2nd wife, born on the compound, the truest polygamist of them all) felt it was completely against the Principle to do this because Margie had the calling expand their own family of true and righteous souls not be a baby depot to every Tom Dick and Harry on the block.
This scene has stuck with me because the most educated, social-minded, and "normal" people are choosing to marry later and later in life and are having fewer and fewer children. They are not populating anywhere near the rate as extremist religious folks (ie my aunt and uncle-- 7 homeschooled missionary children).
So eventually, hundreds of years from now, societal norms could shift again, putting the information age behind us and a new religious fervor upon us.
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