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while the NT, trying to get Roman converts, calls for monagamy

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Or more likely, was largely written by Roman converts, who inserted their own beliefs into the framework they were building.

It seems that monogamy would be something lost in a move to gain converts.

Foreskin removal not a requirement: Could be a move to gain converts, or a move BY converts to avoid the moel.

Moving holy days to days already held holy by the Romans: Could be either.

Dietary laws: lost as a recruitment tactic, or pushed out by swelling discontent among the converts.

I can see relaxing the Jewish laws to make christainity more appealing to the converts, but i really feel that a second step of adopting Roman laws would have been a move made by the converts once they were christains, imposing their already-held-holy beliefs on the outcoming product of messianic judaism...i mean christainity.

Consider the 'tales' told by military recruiters. They can't actually promise that you'll be laid in Tahiti by a wahine, but they do tell juicy stories about liberty ports. They don't point out the restrictions of the UCMJ that you'll be living under, or the loss of certain constitutional rights, but they lean heavily on moving out, getting paid, and not having to spend that salary on food or shelter. Party on, dude.

As recruiters, you'd get more flies by telling men that God WANTED them to have more than one shorty in the crib. And even if they never wanted to actually acquire a spare wife, or were sure that wife number one wouldn't tolerate it, (see below, Mrs. BYU), the appeal of just knowing that it wasn't a sin to fantasize about it....well, that, for one, seems an imposed law, not a recruitment move.
The legality of polygamy has been decided in the courts of our grand nation, but the fact of polygamy goes on, especially on the farms and in the enclaves across Utah. It is something mentioned in about every news story about 'mormon sepratists,' usually in connection with a shootout with the cops, that they are polygamists 'as god intended.'


Brigham Young was married to Wife Number One before he got apprised by God that the secret to becoming a God in the next world was to have lots of babies that had lots of babies that had lots of babies in this one. The more descendents worshipping god THROUGH you, the more power you had, and the sooner you could make your own planet. Polygamy is merely a generational force-multiplier.
Mrs. BYU didn't think much of the idea. Didn't see that Brigham should be in such an all-fired hurry to have that heavenly power.
On the trek from Illinois to the ThisIsThePlace monument, Brigham's bodyguard, Porter Rockwell, had the main job of keeping him alive in the face of rather severe christain intolerance. After Salt Lake City was established, his mission statement creeped more over to making sure Brigham could visit his other....16 (IIRC) wives without getting caught by Wife #1.