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	History of the Church : Late Nineteenth Century, 1878–98: LDSFAQ
		Plural marriage, popularly known as polygamy, is the practice of a man marrying more than one wife.
		Plural marriage was taught and practiced in the Church for a relatively brief period.
		Plural marriage brought public hostility against the Church and eventually federal antipolygamy legislation that stripped Latter-day Saints of their rights as citizens, disincorporated the Church, and permitted the seizure of Church property.
	ldsfaq.byu.edu /view.asp?q=318 (315 words)

	Plural marriage at AllExperts
		Most plural marriage relationships involved sexual relations between the husband and each of the wives, though some plural marriage relationships were said to be celibate.
		Initially believing the marriage applied to eternity and not this life, Helen Mar stated she was surprised that she was not allowed by family to attend a youth dance.
		Relinquishment of plural marriage by church members was not universal, however; some did not accept as divinely inspired the pronouncements truncating polygyny, and were either expelled from the church or left on their own.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pl/plural_marriage.htm (2957 words)

	Plural Marriage (Mormonism) : Plural Marriage (LDS)
		Plural Marriage (usually referred to as polygamy as practiced by the Mormons, but more properly called polygyny) is a doctrine and was a practice of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
		However, a few members continued to practice plural marriage privately with the approval of a few Church leaders until a second proclamation was issued by the Church in the early 1900s.
		According to sympathers, Joseph, Brigham Young and other prominent Church leaders were reluctant to embrace the practice of plural marriage especially given their strict Victorian morals.
	www.fastload.org /pl/Plural_Marriage_(LDS).html (699 words)

	The Polygamy Dilemma - Is Plural Marriage a Dead Issue in Mormonism? \| Mormonism Research Ministry
		This document was basically a promise to the United States stating that the LDS Church would submit to the laws of the land and desist from solemnizing plural marriages.
		LDS historians and apologists have given numerous reasons as to why Joseph Smith felt it necessary to establish the covenant of plural marriage.
		LDS Apostle Bruce McConkie declared, "All who pretend or assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness" (Mormon Doctrine, pp.579).
	www.mrm.org /topics/marriage-family/polygamy-dilemma-plural-marriage-dead-issue-mormonism (2875 words)

	Polygamy - MormonWiki.org
		Where you have the eternity of marriage you are bound to have plural marriage; bound to and it is one of the marks of the Church of Jesus Christ in its sealing ordinances." (George Teasdale, Journal of Discourses, vol.
		An LDS wife may be asked by her husband to act as a proxy for the woman that he wants to marry for eternity, perhaps if he cannot get the other woman to agree to the ceremony, or if it would be too uncomfortable to ask her permission, or if that woman is deceased.
		Proxy marriages are performed similarly to proxy baptism for the dead, in that the living "proxy" wears on her clothes a name tag with the name of the person for whom she is acting as proxy.
	mormonwiki.org /Polygamy (2163 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plural marriage (also sometimes called celestial marriage, The Patriarchal Order of marriage or simply polygamy) is a type of polygamy that was taught by Joseph Smith, Jr.
		Current church leadership asserts that only a small percentage of the LDS pioneers that settled in Utah actually practiced plural marriage (the figure cited is usually around 2%-5%); that those who did usually had only two wives; and that these men often helped support widows, or women that were struggling on their own.
		In consequence of the tendency of outsiders to confuse the LDS church with the breakaway groups, the LDS church seeks vigorously to disassociate itself from the practice of plural marriage.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=plural_marriage (3800 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Polygamy case in court
		Court briefs are due this morning in the case of Bronson vs. Swensen, a lawsuit that is challenging Utah's ban on polygamy.
		After the clerk's office denied the license because plural marriage in Utah is illegal, they sued — seeking only one dollar in damages and a change in Utah's anti-polygamy laws.
		Jeffs, 50, is scheduled to appear in 5th District Court in St. George on Wednesday to answer to a pair of charges of rape as an accomplice, a first-degree felony.
	www.deseretnews.com /dn/view/1%2C1249%2C650193578%2C00.html (787 words)

	Mormon Polygamy after Wilford Woodruff's manifesto
		The first type was civil marriage to a new wife where the legal wife was either dead or divorced, but where at least one pre-existing plural marriage of the man was still in force.
		Utah civil marriage laws also sheltered such arrangements from prying eyes: it was possible for residents of one county to obtain a marriage license in a different county and have the civil ceremony performed in a third county.
		Plural marriages were being performed in Mexico and in various places in the United States, but because anti-Mormons began publishing accusations of these violations of the Manifesto, Church authorities began excommunicating a few new polygamists.
	www.lds-mormon.com /new_plural_marriages.shtml (3075 words)

	Plural Marriage / Polygamy
		Plural marriage, or poligamy, was the nineteenth-century LDS practice of a man marrying more than one wife.
		Rumors of plural marriage among the members of the Church in the 1830s and 1840s led to persecution, and the public announcement of the practice after August 29, 1852, in Utah gave enemies a potent weapon to fan public hostility against the Church.
		Faced with a national antipolygamy campaign, LDS women startled their eastern sisters, who equated polygamy with oppression of women, by publicly demonstrating in favor of their right to live plural marriage as a religious principle.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/plural_marriage/History_EOM.htm (2709 words)

	Why Government Should Support and Protect Marriage
		Plural marriage redistributed property from richer men to poorer women; many of today's polygamists rely on the welfare system and on the property of converts entering their organization.
		In the nineteenth century marriage between uncle and niece was legal, though apparently rare among LDS plural marriages; only a handful of states consider the practice legal today.
		LDS plural marriage of the nineteenth century required the consent not only of the first wife, but also the man's bishop, stake president, and the President of the Church.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /publicforum/020830polygamy.html (2648 words)

	Plural Marriage - MormonWiki - Mormonism - the LDS Church, Beliefs & Religion
		Polygamy, usually called plural marriage, plurality of wives, or the Principle, by Mormons, is the most controversial practice of the Mormon Church, properly called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even though Mormons have not practiced it since 1890.
		Marriage was for "time and all eternity." Time referred to this mortal life while eternity referred to the next life.
		Today in the United States the average age for a first marriage is between 25 and 27 years old, but in the nineteenth century teenage marriages were not that unusual and in many cases the marriage was contracted, but the girl remained with her family until she reached adulthood.
	www.mormonwiki.com /Plural_Marriage (4102 words)

	Book Review-In Sacred Loneliness: the plural wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
		It is clear these women took their marriages to Joseph very seriously, and understandably so, since Joseph had made it clear that not only in some cases was his life at stake, but that in other cases, marriage to him would guarantee her salvation, and also the salvation of her parents (p.
		Though neither are LDS, their work shows in part how the legacy of nineteenth century polygamy as a means of creating spiritual and earthly dynasties continues to impact modern polygamists who also believe that only "righteous men" are to "have the privilege of being patriarchs of plural families" (pp.
		It is interesting that Compton seems compelled to provide a sociological reason for Joseph’s plural marriages whether it be levirate (marrying a brother's spouse to carry on the family name for him), or dynastic (marrying for the sake of creating or strengthening ties between families) when Joseph repeatedly gave his motivation as theological.
	www.irr.org /mit/sacredlon.html (3929 words)

	MORMON FUNDAMENTALISM : Encyclopedia Entry
		A member of the LDS church might respond that the term "fundamentalist Mormon" is a contradiction in terms, since fundamentalist by definition requires a strict and literalistic interpretation of ancient scripture.
		Almost invariably, the practice of plural marriage in these sects consists of polygamy, where men are married to multiple women simultaneously, which is what they believe is after the manner of Joseph Smith, the church's founder and prophet, though some groups practice polyandry as well.
		The mainstream LDS church stopped practicing polygamy in 1890 after a decree (the first manifesto) by the then president of the church, Wilford Woodruff, effectively barring new polygamous marriages.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Mormon_fundamentalism (2067 words)

	Plural marriage (LDS) - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plural marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a sort of polygamy (more properly called polygyny) formerly practiced by some members, during the church's 19th century founding days.
		He claimed to have received a revelation from God regarding plural marriage (see Doctrine and Covenants 132), and a new commandment from God to take more wives.
		Some critics contend that Smith at first committed adultery with Fanny Alger, a young maid in the Smith household, and later invented the doctrine of plural marriage to legitimize his immorality.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Plural_Marriage_(LDS) (680 words)

	LDS.org - Topic Definition - Polygamy (Plural Marriage)
		Since that time, plural marriage has not been approved by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and any member adopting this practice is subject to losing his or her membership in the Church.
		After God revealed the doctrine of plural marriage to Joseph Smith in 1831 and commanded him to live it, the Prophet, over a period of years, cautiously taught the doctrine to some close associates.
		Just as the practice of plural marriage among the Latter-day Saints began gradually, the ending of the practice after the Manifesto was also gradual.
	www.lds.org /ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=9887ec6f164b2110VgnVCM100000176f620a____ (728 words)

	FAIR Topical Guide: Polygamy
		"Joseph Smith's marriages to young women," FAIR Wiki (City Unknown: FAIR) This FAIR Wiki article engages the claim, made by critics, that Joseph was a pedophile and/or morally depraved because he married young women.
		Jeff Lindsay, "Do Latter-day Saints Belong to a Cult?," LDS FAQ This article explores a number of reasons people have claimed the LDS are a cult.
		John Walsh, Is Plural Marriage Necessary for Exaltation?
	www.fairlds.org /apol/ai049.html (1094 words)

	Fundamentalist vs. mainstream LDS doctrine on polygamy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The LDS Church's 1978 decision to give the priesthood to fl men, in particular, galls fundamentalists.
		All trace their priesthood authority to conduct plural marriage back to LDS Church President John Taylor, whom they say had the doctrine confirmed to him in a 1886 revelation.
		Plural marriage allows a man and his "ladies" greater opportunity to provide bodies for waiting heavenly spirits and increases their ability to populate this and future worlds; righteous plural marriage brings access to the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom.
	www.childbrides.org /history_sltrib_FLDS_vs_mormon.html (185 words)

	Overview of LDS Theology
		One example is the everlasting covenant of eternal marriage and plural wives given by Joseph Smith in 1843.
		The plural marriage part of the covenant was rescinded by president Wilford Woodruff in 1890.
		We are not teaching polygamy or plural marriage, nor permitting any person to enter into its practice, and I deny that either forty or any other number of plural marriages have during that period been solemnized in our Temples or in any other place in the Territory.
	www.godandscience.org /cults/sld004.html (459 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Plural lives: the diversity of fundamentalism
		It is the mainstream LDS Church, they argue, that strayed from the faith's original doctrinal underpinnings when LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff issued the Manifesto in 1890, advising Latter-day Saints to refrain from plural marriage.
		Because polygamy continued in secrecy to a small extent, a second "official statement" on the practice was issued by LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith in 1904, ending authorization for plural marriages on pain of excommunication from the church.
		The dissenters said the true priesthood authority to perform plural marriage came to them in a variety of ways, most tied to either their early ancestors as acquaintances of church founder Joseph Smith or one of his successors, President John Taylor.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,645199994,00.html (1522 words)

	Was Mormon Plural Marriage a requirement for Exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom?
		Patriarchal marriage involves conditions, responsibilities and obligations which do not exist in monogamy, and there are blessings attached to the faithful observance of that law, if viewed only upon natural principles, which must so far exceed those of monogamy, as the conditions responsibilities and power of increase are greater.
		Where you have the eternity of marriage you are bound to have plural marriage; bound to; and it is one of the marks of the Church of Jesus Christ in its sealing ordinances.
		Marriage, then for eternity, is the great principle of marriage with the Latter-day Saints; and yet, I am sorry to say, that there are some of our young people who will suffer themselves to be married by the civil law; not for eternity, but just like the old Gentile custom--the way our forefathers were married.
	www.xmission.com /~plporter/lds/required.htm (11852 words)

	Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, Vision Articles -- Orson Pratt and the 1831 Revelation Rumor
		The great and glorious principle of plural marriage was first revealed to Joseph Smith in 1831, but being forbidden to make it public, or to teach it as a doctrine of the Gospel, at that time, he confided the facts to only a very few of his intimate associates.
		Lyman's claim that Joseph received a plural marriage revelation in 1831 is in direct conflict with the revelations which Joseph gave to the Church during this same period.
		This marriage would have been impossible in view of the Mormon claim that the plural marriage doctrine was so secret that even the apostles were not told of it until the summer of 1841.
	www.restorationbookstore.org /articles/nopoligamy/jsfp-visionarticles/orsonpratt1831revelationrumor.htm (3719 words)

	Mormon Church History
		That is to say, LDS one volume Histories of the Church, with what I thought at the time was purposely white washing of Mormon History surrounding the 1st Manifesto of 1890, by Wilford Woodruff.
		The Kirtland 1835 DandC section 101, contained church policies on marriage, which are not in the current, DandC 134 Notes or Article on Marriage, but are still published in the RLDS DandC.
		The LDS Church produced film Legacy script historical references, a beginning point in analyzing if it truly is a compilation of multiple Mormon Women's diaries, and how historically faithful it is to Mormon Women at that time period, women such as Mary Elizabeth Rollins.
	www.xmission.com /~plporter/lds.htm (1492 words)

	Review of Todd Compton's In Sacred Loneliness... by Alma Allred - SHIELDS
		The fact that plural marriage was first and foremost a principle of religion seems to have been lost to discussions of polyandry, "sexual attraction" and the dangers of "jealous husbands." (p.3).
		Although Compton includes familiar stories that have tended to emphasize the religious aspects of plural marriage, he dilutes this information with personal speculation that constantly questions the propriety of Joseph Smith’s actions and suggests that this doctrine was founded in Joseph Smith’s fertile mind rather than in revelation from God.
		We know that marriages of young girls during Utah’s polygamous years were performed with the understanding that cohabitation would be postponed until the girl had arrived at a suitable, marriageable age.
	www.shields-research.org /Reviews/Rvw-Sacred_Loneliness_Allred.htm (2937 words)

	Latter-day Saint offshoots rever plural marriage
		However, a variety of fundamentalist groups still practice the principle of plural marriage as taught by early church leaders.
		While the Warren Jeffs trial has drawn national attention to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and those practicing plural marriage, confusion and misunderstandings still persist concerning fundamentalists and their relationship with the church, observers have said.
		The murder of Smith in 1844 led to a crisis of succession, where the church and the reorganized church originally split, but the fundamentalist movement didn't begin until Wilford Woodruff, third president of the church, issued a manifesto that called for the end of the practice of plural marriage, Christensen said.
	childbrides.org /news_history_SUU_LDS_offshoots_rever_plural_marriage.html (689 words)

	Polygamy during the 19th century in Mormon Churches?
		It suspended the solemnization of new plural marriages for an indefinite interval.
		In spite of the denials, a few such marriages were apparently sealed as late as 1910 for trusted leaders of the Church.
		Although no new polygamous marriages were conducted after the 1920's, existing plural marriages continued to receive strong support from the Church.
	www.religioustolerance.org /lds_poly.htm (2153 words)

	LDS Church criticizes media FLDS stories
		The LDS Church abandoned the practice of polygamy in 1890 as a condition of statehood and excommunicates members who embrace it or other fundamentalist philosophies.
		In its statement, the LDS Church criticized specific stories such as a May 2 Fox News segment that implied members of the faith would oppose a crackdown on polygamy.
		The LDS Church also blasted CNN for imposing the face of Jeffs over a photo of the Salt Lake Temple, saying that implied a connection between the two.
	www.childbrides.org /excuses_sltrib_LDS_church_criticises_FLDS_media.html (587 words)

	Polygamy, Plural Marriage, Warren Jeffs, Fundamentalist Mormonism -- Beliefnet.com
		A woman who spent 33 years in a plural marriage describes why she supports polygamy but opposes the sect leader Warren Jeffs.
		Anne Wilde is the community relations director of the pro-polygamy group Principle Voices--which organized the Salt Lake rally--the co-author of "Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage," and a fundamentalist Mormon unaffiliated with Jeffs' group.
		The LDS church, of course, had it [polygamy] as one of their beliefs and practices in the early years of the church.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/198/story_19877_1.html (1002 words)

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