First, aren’t all Latter-day Saints millennialists (there is quite a divergence among evangelicals)? Secondly, does the LDS Church believe they will possess male and female slaves during a future millennium? In this post, I am not going to get into all the changes made by the JST or BoM to the KJV text because I just want to jump right into a big heart issue phrased in my title.
In Understanding Isaiah(1998), the LDS authors interpret,
Following a lengthy prophecy concerning Babylon’s fall (13:11-22), Isaiah extends hope to us (the house of Israel) that we will be gathered to our promised lands and eventually rest from sorrow. Certainly our (Israel’s) return to our covenantal lands is a prominent sign of the times. After we have gathered to our promised lands, we will eventually “exercise dominion domestically (menservants and maidservants), militarily (take . . . captives), and politically (rule over/ ‘dominate’)” (14:2). We who follow Christ and make his atonement effective in our lives will, in the end, rest from sorrow, fear, and hard bondage (14:3) (140).
Is this the standard LDS position? Is this what you believe? Because I like the guy, I would love to get a response from Mitt Romney regarding his personal view of this chapter.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 
Todd,
As you know, I have elsewhere described this post as disappointing. I explained why there, but also suggested that my comment may be removed as it was somewhat of a threadjack. I thought you deserved to know my thoughts, though.
I hope you realize that I classify you as sincere. I hope that these comments are helpful, and I offer them merely to give you a sense of how this post came across. I hope this is helpful.
Todd,
That would help a little bit. The problem is, though, is that you’ve picked up on a bit of trivia, and seem to want to make a mountain of it. I had never thought of millenial slavery at all, until you brought it up. Even in the revised question, you are impugning that I, as a mormon, must have thought about it simply because another (published) mormon wrote about it. Frankly, I think your analysis (to paraphrase: There will be millenial “slavery”, because we will all be happiest as servants of Christ) is right on. I doubt that the authors you reference on your blog -without giving citation – would disagree with such analysis, either.
Why is it important to you to know Mitt Romney’s position on the matter? As I said, it is an obscure point with an innocent, even uplifting, explanation, which you were able to supply on your own. Asking the question, even as revised, suggests that you think that mormons believe in some sort of millenial slavery that involves subjugation of those who do not believe as we do. Such an accusation is an affront to us because of the clearly stated position in our eleventh article of faith.
In short, the way you phrased the question, even as revised, seems to suggest that Mormons have a doctrine that we will dominate unrighteously over those who do not believe as we do. This is manifestly untrue. You may say that you did not intend to insinuate this, but slavery is a loaded word, and you did not clarify. And, I suspect, you knew before you posted that millenial slavery gets about as much play in LDS sunday school as it does in that of any other church.
If you wanted to avoid the ‘ambush’ sense, you could have clarified by including your own (rather enlightening) perspective on the Isaiah passage in question, or, at least, recognized that any sense of unrighteous dominion would be untenable in light of A of F 11 and the LDS belief that Christ, not LDS Church qua Church, will be in charge during the millenium.
In all honesty to your question, I am just incredibly curious. 🙂