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	Authorized Plural Marriage 1835-1904
		Plural marriage 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.
		The Book of Mormon makes clear that, though the Lord will command men through his prophets to live the law of plural marriage at special times for his purposes, monogamy is the general standard (Jacob 2:28-30); unauthorized polygamy was and is viewed as adultery.
	www.mormonfundamentalism.com /NEWFILES/PluralMarriage1835to1904.htm (1988 words)

	Celestial marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Celestial marriage is a doctrine peculiar to the Mormon religious movement, particularly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
		Celestial marriage is an instance of the LDS doctrine of sealing.
		However, while plural marriage is eschewed by the LDS Church today, it continued to be practiced, even after The Manifesto (the 1890 Official Declaration by then LDS President Wilford Woodruff, by which he counseled the Saints to discontinue plural marriage).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celestial_marriage (522 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.
		Mormon teachings on marriage, which Joseph Smith had begun teaching in Nauvoo, taught that men and women could be married for all eternity, not just in this 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 /mormonism/Plural_Marriage (4110 words)

	Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - Redefining Celestial Marriage
		While a great portion of the activity in a Mormon temple is on behalf of the dead (baptisms for the dead, endowments for the dead, etc.), marriage ceremonies for the living, called celestial marriage, also plays a very important role in the LDS view of salvation.
		To the 19th century Mormon, celestial marriage was synonymous with plural marriage.
		Mormon historians concede that celestial and plural marriage were at one time inseparable.
	www.mrm.org /multimedia/text/redefining-celestial-marriage.html (820 words)

	Plural marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the death of Joseph Smith, plural marriage was taught and practiced as polygyny by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until 1890, when the Church officially ended the practice as a doctrine of the Church.
		Plural Marriage continues to be practiced today, usually in the form of polygyny, by a number of splinter groups of Mormon fundamentalists in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plural_marriage (3878 words)

	Background Information
		Taylor is believed by Mormon fundamentalists (but not by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) to have had a revelation in 1886 to continue the practice of plural marriage despite federal opposition (and an eventual LDS Church decision to stop the practice).
		The Mormon splinter group is one of several that split from the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the decades since it renounced polygamy in 1890.
		Men and women in plural marriages are expected to create as many children "as the Lord requires of them." Women often have more than a dozen children and men with more than one wife routinely count their offspring in double digits.
	www.childbrides.org /history.html (5543 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.
		A quick history lesson in the Mormon church's involvement with the issue of plural marriages.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/198/story_19877_1.html (1020 words)

	Mormon plural marriage
		During that year polygamous marriages continued to be performed in the Logan Temple by Marriner W. Merrill, in the Salt Lake Endowment House by Franklin D. Richards, aboard ship by Francis M. Lyman, and in Mexico by Moses Thatcher and Alexander F. Macdonald.
		Consequently, previously signed plural marriage recommends were used in new marriage ceremonies throughout the summer until 22 September 1889 in the Salt Lake Endowment House and until 2 October in the Logan Temple.
		Plural marriages had ceased in Utah, but (possibly in response to the revelation of 24 November 1889) the First Presidency had already resumed giving recommends for plural marriages to be performed in Mexico.
	www.lds-mormon.com /mormon_plural_marriage.shtml (2676 words)

	Changing World Chapter 9 Part 1
		Mormon apologist John J. Stewart admits that "there are at least two points of doctrine and history of the Church about which many LDS themselves—to say nothing of non-members—feel apologetic or critical.
		The revelation sanctioning the practice of plural marriage was given by the Prophet Joseph Smith on July 12, 1843.
		Mormon Apostle John A. Widtsoe said that "The evidence seems clear that the revelation on plural marriage was received by the Prophet as early as 1831" (Joseph Smith—Seeker After Truth, p.236).
	www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/changech9a.htm (7457 words)

	Mormonism and the American Mainstream - The Nineteenth Century - Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
		When Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it came to be officially designated, first emerged on the religious scene in 1830, it was simply one of the many, often short-lived, new religious groups born amidst the spiritual ferment of mid-nineteenth-century America.
		Even when they abandoned church ownership of property, the Mormons made sure that those who joined their community had a beginning economic stake in the community and instituted a strict regime of tithing to insure that no member of the community would be abandoned to poverty.
		Finally, with the promulgation of its doctrine of plural marriage, Mormonism threatened to undermine the conventional institution of monogamy that "mainstream" America increasingly envisioned as a central bulwark against immorality and the principal agency for the control of sexuality.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us /tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nmormon.htm (2544 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.ldshistory.net /pc/required.htm (11862 words)

	Four Major Periods of Mormon Polygamy
		Smith’s next marriage, or “sealing” according to Mormon terminology, may have occurred in 1838 in Missouri, but the great majority of his thirty-three well documented marriages, give or take a few because formal records were not always kept, occurred in 1841-44 in Nauvoo, Illinois.
		However, plural marriage was more widely practiced among the elite than among the church’s rank and file, a good number of the latter remaining monogamous.
		Two apostles who had been prominent in post-Manifesto plural marriages, John Taylor and Matthias Cowley, were released from the Quorum of the Twelve and subsequently dismissed from the church—excommunicated in one case and disfellowshipped in the other.
	www.signaturebookslibrary.org /essays/mormonpolygamy.htm (1928 words)

	Distinctive Beliefs of the Mormon Church
		Mormons try to attract new members by projecting an image of wholesome family life in their circles.
		Mormons maintain that the need for divine guidance is as great or greater in our modern, complex world as it was in the comparatively simple times of the Hebrews." Thus, revelation continues.
		Indeed, the faithful Mormon wife of a lukewarm Mormon man will leave him behind in an inferior place while she goes on and is sealed to a more devout Mormon gentleman.
	www.catholic.com /library/Distinctive_Beliefs_of_Mormon.asp (1887 words)

	The Story of Mormonism: Chapter V
		The thought that plural marriage has ever been the head and front of "Mormon" offending, that to it is traceable as the true cause the hatred of other sects and the unpopularity of the Church, is not tenable to the earnest thinker.
		In 1862, a law was enacted with the purpose of suppressing plural marriage, and, as had been predicted in the national Senate prior to its passage, it lay for many years a dead letter.
		But the people have suspended the practise of plural marriage; and the testimony of the governors, judges, and district attorneys of the territory, and later that of the officers of the state, have declared the sincerity of the renunciation.
	www.sacred-texts.com /mor/som/som06.htm (1998 words)

	Mormonism Research Ministry - Articles - The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
		Smith's marriage to Louis Beaman is considered by some to be his first official plural marriage since it is the first for which there is a witness and a reliable record.
		However, several Mormon general authorities and LDS historians believe that Smith married his housemaid Fanny Alger as early as 1833.
		Mormon historian Todd Compton estimates that Smith married at least 33 women and that one-third of them were simultaneously married to other men.
	www.mrm.org /multimedia/text/plural-wives.html (374 words)

	Polygamy was rejected under the gun
		Theologically, Mormonism - the so-called ‘Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ is a cult of Christianity.
		Given that the theology and practice of the Mormon Church violates essential Christian doctrines, Mormonism does not represent historical, Biblical Christianity, is not a Christian denomination, and is not in any way part of the Christian church.
		Throughout the rest of the 20th century, Mormon leaders worked strenuously to separate the church from plural marriage by excommunicating polygamists, clamping down on historical research, and eradicating any reference to the practice in the church’s official literature.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /6436/polygamy-was-rejected-under-the-gun (1050 words)

	The Changing World of Mormonism, Chapter 9 (Part 1), Plural Marriage, by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Reason!, Joseph ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mormon apologist John J. Stewart admits that "there are at least two points of doctrine and history of the Church about which many LDS themselves--to say nothing of non-members--feel apologetic or critical.
		The revelation sanctioning the practice of plural marriage was given by the Prophet Joseph Smith on July 12, 1843.
		Mormon Apostle John A. Widtsoe said that "The evidence seems clear that the revelation on plural marriage was received by the Prophet as early as 1831" (Joseph Smith-Seeker After Truth, p.236).
	www.xmission.com /~country/chngwrld/chap9a.htm (7627 words)

	Gospel Link
		Personal accounts document that most who entered plural marriage in Nauvoo faced a crisis of faith that was resolved only by personal spiritual witness.
		The Book of Mormon makes clear that, though the Lord will command men through his prophets to live the law of plural marriage at special times for his purposes, monogamy is the general standard (Jacob 2:28–30); unauthorized polygamy was and is viewed as adultery.
		Another safeguard was that authorized plural marriages could be performed only through the sealing power controlled by the presiding authority of the Church (D&C 132:19).
	ldsfaq.byu.edu /emmain.asp?number=145 (2696 words)

	Mormons and Polygamy: Do the Latter Day Saints believe in Plural Marriage? at Deo Omnis Gloria
		The revered prophet described plural marriage as part of “the most holy and important doctrine ever revealed to man on earth” and taught that a man needed at least three wives to attain the “fullness of exaltation” in the afterlife.
		Mormonism is a church founded by a very charismatic man who seemed to enjoy women, so he instituted polygamy to serve his purpose.
		If Mormonism is true what he should have told his disciples was not to waste their time witnessing, that during the next 1800 years the true faith would entirely disappear no matter what they did.
	www.deoomnisgloria.com /archives/2006/06/mormons_and_polygamy_do_the_la.html (19154 words)

	Reviews -- An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton
		Clayton was initiated into the secrets of plural marriage by Brigham Young in March 1843, performed the plural marriage of Almera Johnson to Joseph Smith on 2 April and took his own first plural wife (a sister of his first wife) on 27 April (altogether he married ten wives and fathered forty-seven children).
		Chosen in 1852 as a member of a Mormon mission to England to justify the church's adoption of polygamy, the trip proved a personal debacle when his license to preach was briefly revoked after his being charged with immorality.
		The great travail of the members of the Mormon Church, with the principle of plural marriage is told from the perspective of both those who practiced and didn't practice it.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/clayton.htm (5148 words)

	History of Plural Marriage / Poligamy
		In 1890 the Manifesto announced that no new plural marriages were to be authorized.
		Plural marriage, or poligamy, was the nineteenth-century LDS practice of a man marrying more than one wife.
		The Book of Mormon makes clear that, though the Lord will command men through his prophets to live the law of plural marriage at special times for his purposes, monogamy is the general standard (Jacob 2:28-30); unauthorized polygamy was and is viewed as
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/plural_marriage/History_EOM.htm (2709 words)

	Plural Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although polygamy had been practiced for much of history in many parts of the world, to do so in "enlightened" America in the nineteenth century was viewed by most as incomprehensible and unacceptable, making it the Church's most controversial and least understood practice.
		Beason, it became clear that plural marriage was leading toward the economic and political destruction of the Church.
		Plural marriage remedies these penalties by enabling every woman the opportunity to have a righteous husband, enjoy the blessings of motherhood, and fulfill the measure of her creation.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/plural_marriage/index.htm (250 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.
		Samuel Katich, "Joseph Smith," Mormonism 201 (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR) Katich explores the many issues regarding Joseph Smith that are mentioned in Mormonism 101.
		Stephen R. Gibson, "Does the Doctrine and Covenants Contradict the Book of Mormon," One-Minute Answers to Anti-Mormon Questions (Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers) The Book of Mormon states that the many wives and concubines of David and Solomon were an abomination before the Lord (Jacob 2:23-24).
	www.fairlds.org /apol/ai049.html (1094 words)

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