[Servant of the Cross]

... the republican party was founded to oppose polygamy.

Quick. Somebody tell Spielberg he HAS to redo Lincoln!

[ansel12]

Spielberg should have mentioned it, and he could have pointed out that republicans passed the first legislation against polygamy before the Emancipation Proclamation.

“The GOP’s first party platform in 1856 took direct aim at polygamy, placing it in the same sinister frame as slavery in the hope of cultivating the votes of Christians wary of the spread of these dual threats to the republic.

“It is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism — polygamy, and slavery,” the party declared as it emerged on the national stage for the first time.

Later on, Republicans used their congressional power to wipe away any secular power Mormon leaders had in the Utah Territory and were the main backers of a law that disincorporated The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”