Near the end of her book Pearson writes of this hopeful future: “The writings and folklore around polygamy, the old stories and the statements even of prophets, will have been put away in the ...

If there is a pope of Mormon polygamy, a powerful prophet who controls the lives of thousands of Americans who still believe in the sanctity of plural marriage, that man is Warren Steed Jeffs.

Moving away from the stereotype that Mormonism was led by fanatical prophets with multiple wives and long beards, as Mormons assimilated, LDS Church leaders developed a more modern clean-shaven ...

It's time for mainstream Mormonism to strip away all vestiges of polygamy — past, present and future — argues a prominent LDS writer and activist. Remove a defense of polygamy from Mormon ...

Utah Polygamy Denounced Before Mormon Conference at Kirtland. THE PROPHET'S SON SPEAKS; JOSEPH SMITH, JR., DENOUNCES POLYGAMY. A REMARKABLE SERMON IN THE FAMOUS OLD TEMPLE AT KIRTLAND--MORMONS ON ...

Ken Verdoia is a Utah historian and has made several documentaries about the Mormons. Read the full interview » In September of 1890, Wilford Woodruff says, "Inasmuch as laws of the land and the ...

In the 1840s, Mormon prophet Joseph Smith taught that "plural marriage" was given to him in a divine revelation and was ordained by God as sacred. As Mormons migrated west, they took polygamy with ...

(RNS) — Polygamous Mormons didn't go to Mexico in the late 19th century in defiance of the church; the church sent them there with its blessing.

It seems that Mormons hate polygamy even more than abortion. ... as is the case with current apostles Russell M. Nelson and Dallin H. Oaks, and past prophet Howard W. Hunter ...

Every schoolboy knows that the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) ... There in 1852 Prophet Young publicly proclaimed polygamy as a divine doctrine which, ...

Smith died in 1844, but despite his dedication to this particular cause, by 1890, the Church had outlawed polygamy, a decision that eventually led to the split that gave us the pro-polygamy FLDS ...

At one time, Mormonism practiced and preached polygamy. Then it discontinued and disavowed it, dubbing members apostates if they promoted and participated in it.