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It is still taught and it is anticipated that all good Mormons will one day be polygamists (in the afterlife), and ~~if a new revelation is given~~ if polygamy ever becomes legal in the US, then they will pick up where they left off.

There, fixed it for you.

http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/centennial_celebration/101595.html

The Mormon Church was all but bankrupt as it entered the decade of the 1890s. Drastic action was necessary to save what was left. Woodruff, since his succession to the church presidency, was also on the run and in hiding to avoid prosecution for polygamy. But on September 25, 1890, he took the only option open, and published in the Deseret News his manifesto—or “Official Declaration” against new polygamy. Woodruff’s statement, in essence, explained that: “Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriage, which laws have been pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort, I hereby declare my intention to submit to those laws, and to use my influence with the members of the church over which I preside to have them do likewise.

And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”

Revelation from God revoking polygamy? :)

...if polygamy ever becomes legal in the US, then they will pick up where they left off.... There, fixed it for you.

Wrong. The kind of polygamy practiced by the FLDS is technically legal, unless the "spiritual" spouse is either a minor or non-consenting adult.

Marriage laws have been so watered down in the last century that a man can have 100 wives as long as he does not attempt to get a marriage license for more than one at a time.

The LDS Church is stuck between a rock and a hard place. They know it would be suicide for their religion if they suddenly allowed their members to "practice polygamy", but they can't repudiate it, since polygamy is a central doctrine of the LDS Church and is central to their doctrine of "eternal progression" where good Mormons will someday take their harems into heaven and procreate billions of spirit children to populate a planet in which the population of those planets will refer to them as their "Heavenly Father".

But even if polygamy were legalized (which it technically is) the Utah LDS Church is not going to be getting any revelations allowing the practice to begin again.