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	General Questions Regarding Mormon Fundamentalists
		The practice is referred to as "plural marriage." It occurs when one man is married to more than one wife (technically called "polygyny").
		In 1852, Church leaders announced to the world that plural marriages were being allowed.
		"The exact percentage of Latter-day Saints who participated in the practice [of plural marriage] is not known, but studies suggest a maximum of from 20% to 25% of LDS adults were members of polygamous households.
	www.mormonfundamentalism.com /GeneralQuestions.htm (1195 words)

	DISSOLVING A PLURAL MARRIAGE IN CONNECTICUT
		Since the marriage presented in your question meets the statutory definition of bigamy, it could not have been legally performed here; thus, it appears that a Connecticut court would view the second and third marriages as invalid and not grant a divorce.
		A marriage performed in a foreign country that involves at least one Connecticut resident is valid if the parties could have legally married in Connecticut and the marriage conforms to the laws of the foreign country.
		The Court held that although the marriage was valid where it was celebrated, it contravened the strong public policy in this state against incestuous marriages (currently CGS § 46b-21); thus, the plaintiff was not the decedent's surviving spouse.
	www.cga.ct.gov /2002/olrdata/jud/rpt/2002-R-0971.htm (1114 words)

	Plural marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plural_marriage (3007 words)

	Celestial marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Celestial marriage is an instance of the LDS doctrine of sealing.
		In their view, plural marriages in the early church, when properly authorized and conducted, were, in fact, celestial marriages; but celestial marriages need not be plural marriages.
		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 (536 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)

	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 (2969 words)

	First European Christian Polygamy Page: Articles 5: Guidelines on Plural Marriage for Pastors
		Plural marriage is not a principle that anyone should aspire to (and especially not the men) because it is God who decides who is to live it, and when.
		Plural marriage is a type of the Body of Christ reflected in an earthly family.
		Though a plural marriage is "one marriage", in terms of the demands it places on a husband, it could perhaps be compared to many marriages all rolled into one.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Atlantis/2430/CPM005-Pastors.html (3494 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)

	Gospel Link
		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.
		Following a vision showing him that continuing plural marriage endangered the temples and the mission of the Church, not just statehood, President Wilford Woodruff issued the Manifesto in October 1890, announcing an official end to new plural marriages and facilitating an eventual peaceful resolution of the conflict.
	ldsfaq.byu.edu /emmain.asp?number=145 (0 words)

	Plural Marriage
		According to the Lord's law of marriage, it is lawful that a man have only one wife at a time, unless by revelation the Lord commands plurality of wives in the new and everlasting covenant.
		After Brigham Young led the saints to the Salt Lake Valley, plural marriage was openly taught and practiced until the year 1890.
		Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/plural_marriage/McConkie_MD.htm (0 words)

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		Plural marriage is oppressive to women and leads to male domination.
		The value of plural marriage can be seen in the respect of testing the worth of a man as a husband.
		Plural marriage breaks the one flesh relationship between a man and wife.
	grailchurch.org /plural_marriage2.htm (1211 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)

	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 /mormonism/Plural_Marriage (4110 words)

	Book Review-In Sacred Loneliness: the plural wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
		The case of Joseph’s marriage to 17-year-old Sarah Ann Whitney exemplifies both the extreme secrecy that surrounded early polygamy and Compton’s skillful use of the historical record to reconstruct the events.
		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.
		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 (0 words)

	review of Plural Marriage
		Surely, Kilbride says, there are some cases where plural marriage -- he dislikes the word polygamy because of its negative bed-hoppping connotation -- could be a solution.
		He has looked at plural marriages in which men, women and children live together, and those in which the women and children have separate households, sharing the man who is, essentially, without a permanent home.
		In addition, he said, let's be honest: Plural marriages already exist in all strata of society.
	www.polyamory.org /~howard/Poly/plural_marriage.html (741 words)

	MORMONFUNDAMENTALISM.COM
		Members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that the principle of plural marriage, which was practiced by the ancient patriarchs such as Abraham or Jacob, was restored to this earth sometime in the 1830s through a new prophet named Joseph Smith.
		Between 1852 and 1890, plural marriage was openly taught and practiced among the Latter-day Saints.
		Woolley professed that the authority to solemnize new plural marriages was held by men who were not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
	www.mormonfundamentalism.com (0 words)

	Plural Marriage / Polygamy
		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.
		Another safeguard was that authorized plural marriages could be performed only through the sealing power controlled by the presiding authority of the Church (DandC 132:19).
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/daily/history/plural_marriage/History_EOM.htm (0 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.
		Even as late as 1879, Joseph F. Smith was insisting that plural marriage was essential for LDS exaltation.
		At common law, the second marriage was always void, and from the earliest history of England polygamy has been treated as an ofence against society....
	www.mrm.org /multimedia/text/polygamy-dilemma.html (2875 words)

	National ACLU Policy on Plural Marriage
		Advocacy of plural marriage and the expression of a religious belief in plural marriage are protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment even though polygamy has been declared to be criminal by states.
		Criminal and civil laws prohibiting the advocacy or practice of plural marriage are constitutionally defective.
		The ACLU believes that criminal and civil laws prohibiting or penalizing the practice of plural marriage violate constitutional protections of freedom of expression and association, freedom of religion, and privacy for personal relationships among consenting adults.
	www.acluutah.org /pluralmarriage.htm (0 words)

	Plural Marriage
		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 (0 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).
		When Clayton died in 1879 (two years after Brigham Young), plural marriage and the theocratic kingdom were under siege by the federal government and Protestant denominations, and ceased officially and de facto by the early twentieth century.
		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 (0 words)

	Polygamy Central 1831 - 1904
		Plural Marriage a requirement for Exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom?
		Anson B. was engaged to marry his first (polygamous) plural wife, before the first 1890 Wilford Woodruff Manifesto, as things worked out, he ended up marrying 3 plural wives after the September 1890 press release.
		The majority of the early marriages of Joseph Smith were of the polyandry type (8 of the first 11).
	www.ldshistory.net /pc (0 words)

	Demos - A Network for Ideas & Action - "Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?"
		Frank concludes that laws against plural marriage may function as positional arms control agreements that make life less stressful for men, and may help explain their appeal to the predominantly male legislatures that enact them.
		The traditional argument against plural marriage is that it harms women, particularly younger women who may be coerced to enter such marriages.
		Of course, the mere fact that allowing plural marriage may eliminate attractive options for some women does not imply that it imposes unacceptable harm on women generally.
	www.demos.org /pub842.cfm (1025 words)

	Islam Question and Answer - The ruling on plural marriage and the wisdom behind it
		It is known that the numbers can only be increased through marriage, and the number of offspring gained through plural marriage will be greater than that achieved through marriage to one wife.
		So plural marriage is permitted when one is able to be fair and just.
		Even if we assume that there may be more arguments than in a marriage to one wife, even if we accept that they may be harmful and bad, the harm is outweighed by the many good things in a plural marriage.
	www.islam-qa.com /index.php?ln=eng&ds=qa&lv=browse&QR=14022&dgn=4 (1668 words)

	The Changing World of Mormonism, Chapter 9 (Part 1), Plural Marriage, by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Reason!, Joseph ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The revelation sanctioning the practice of plural marriage was given by the Prophet Joseph Smith on July 12, 1843.
		The Prophet understood the principle of plural marriage as early as 1831.
		One of those rules was that a man must obtain the consent of the first wife before entering into the practice of plural marriage, yet Pratt himself married two of his wives without the knowledge or consent of any of his other wives.
	www.xmission.com /~country/chngwrld/chap9a.htm (7627 words)

	The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives - FARMS Review
		It was of course given at the height of her resentment against plural marriage, and the Prophet was sealed to but few wives afterward.
		Thus the main plural marriage revelation is retrospective, and the Prophet dictated it in a form to communicate to Emma in terms of her own experience: "And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph" (D&C 132:52).
		Emma was at the peak of resentment against plural marriage in July and August of 1843, demanding about this time that Emily and Eliza Partridge leave the Mansion House, though she had earlier given permission for their marriages.
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=290 (12737 words)

	Islam Question and Answer - The ruling on plural marriage and the wisdom behind it
		It is known that the numbers can only be increased through marriage, and the number of offspring gained through plural marriage will be greater than that achieved through marriage to one wife.
		So plural marriage is permitted when one is able to be fair and just.
		Even if we assume that there may be more arguments than in a marriage to one wife, even if we accept that they may be harmful and bad, the harm is outweighed by the many good things in a plural marriage.
	islamqa.com /index.php?ref=14022&ln=eng (1698 words)

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