[Colofornian]

170 years ago TODAY...A dozen years AFTER Joseph Smith started fooling around with a teen-age live-in housekeeper whom he eventually made into a "plural wife" before Smith's first wife kicked her out...Smith FINALLY unveiled the official LDS "doctrine" of plural marriage...STILL on the books in the Lds "scriptures"...known as "Doctrines & Covenants 132"

Interestingly tho...Mormons STILL did NOT go "public" with D&C 132 til 1852...when a book that included mention of Mormon Utah polygamy unveiled it earlier that same year.

So...quite interesting that Mormons invested so much in a Smith "doctrine" that was really only openly published and defended for just 38 years!

Be sure ya check out the many links in the article!

[nickcarraway]

It would be kind of funny if someday the government forced plural marriage on the state of Utah.

[Vendome]

Nothing is a dead issue, particularly the dead.

[Nevadan]

I get the sense that although the LDS church does not publicly support polygamy - indeed to the contrary it denounces it, there is still an undercurrent of acceptance. Otherwise how could the polygamous communities that have thrived in Utah for decades? It seems to me that the church has merely winked at their existence because the polygamous branches of the Mormon church are being consistent with the teachings of Joseph Smith & Bringem Young.

[taxcontrol]

The author is incorrect in one assertion. The author states “...polygamy was merely tolerated by God and never commanded by Him.” That is not entirely true.

Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother’s widow, and the widow is obliged to marry her deceased husband’s brother. Levirate marriage is law under Deuteronomy 25: 5-6

While not always the case, this could result in a plural marriage. In fact, there is no excuse or “out” if the brother is already married.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Horn-dog Prophet Placemarker

[teppe]

What about Polygamy in the Bible????

Could it be that Abraham, Isaac?, Jacob as well as King David and Solomon, all ancestors of Jesus Christ himself ...

could be EVIL Polygamists?

Sorry Honey, if you have a problem with Mormons that practiced polygamy 125 years ago ..... you also have a problem with God sanctioned polygamy in the Bible.

Keep up the Smears, Innuendo, Distortions and Fabrications .... no one does it better than you!

[svcw]

I do not understand the headline, lds have never given up plural marriage, they just called it celestial marriage now

[ravenwolf]

I think the reason it was only defended for 38 years is because it was misrepresented to begin with and was realized.

It is kind of hard to make any sense from but appears that the Prophet was the only one that was under command to have more than one wife and that is the reason Emma was mentioned personally.

And there could only be one prophet on this earth at one time.

Well if plural marriage comes back again it is not going to matter to me as i could never have supported or took care of more than one wife even when i was young.

So i am sure not going to worry about it now.

[Gamecock]

Traditional Mormons, like the fLDS, still embrace good old fashioned Mormon principles. It’s these new school folks that have sold out.