Inasmuch as laws have been enacted by Congress forbidding plural marriages, 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.
There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. 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.
Wilford Woodruff President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1890
Where is the part where their god TELLS them to stop obeying him?
Doncha just LOVE qualifiers!!
#1...If Woodruff's 1890 declaration had taken amongst all of its leader, the 1904 Second Manifesto would have been redundant/superflous.
#2...May I suggest you at least look at the lengthy appendix in Solemn Covenant: THE MORMON POLYGAMOUS PASSAGE (and perhaps read a chapter or two from this book)
Hardy, himself a descendent of polygamists, lists (if I recall correctly) about 260 plural unions between 1890-1910 in the appendix. These were solemnized by hierarchy Mormons.
If you look at this list closely, you'll see some of these additional plural unions lasted all the way until the early 1960s.
#3 To elaborate further on this, Woodruff's declaration didn't evaporate most of the existing plural unions as of that time.
#4 Current Lds teaching is that if you are solemnized to more than one spouse in the lds temple (for example, a second after the first died), you are a polygamist as of death...provided you make it to the Celestial Kingdom, that is.
#5...Lds "apostle" McConkie taught that polygamy was a "holy practice" that would jumpstart again when the Mormon jesus returns...(see his book, Mormon Doctrine).
And then after 1890 Woodruff continued to practice polygamy and “married” more Moemoin women and fi8nally died still in polygamous relationships
as did EVERY Mormon “prophet and president” after him until 1945 when the last polygamous pro$it Heber Grant died...
along with Woodruff et al Mormon “apostles” and elders and members of the top quorum of 15 in SLC lived with extra women as “wives” too...
All that the proclamation of 1890 did was fooled congress into voting Utah into the union as a new state...
about 1895 another proclamation was necessary because of all the continued “illegal habitation” AKA polygamy going on and so many apostles etc arrested and jailed...
after 1900 yet another proclamation or 2 were again necessary...
in all this though the utterer and signers of the proclamation ie Woodfuff and the later the Mormon pro$its never obeyed their own proclamations but kept right own committing adultry and bigamy a crime in all the US states...
even though Mormon doctrines command them to obey the laws...
well I guess the laws that they want to..
and I guess any of the laws that Brigham Young might have bothered to obey..
LOL