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DOCTRINE- POLYGAMY

Contradictions

Excerpt: Lying For The Lord

Quote: Brigham Young: Lawful to Leave A Man for a Higher Authority

Quote: Brigham Young: Only Polygamous Men Can Become Gods

Quote: Brigham Young: Scratching and Fighting

EXTERNAL LINKS

Another Wife Please! - A collection of historical quotes from Church leadership regarding polygamy.

Official Statement - regarding polygamy, from Gordon Hinckley, speaking for the Utah Church.

Plural Marriages after the 1890 Manifesto - text of a speech given by D. Michael Quinn, August 1991.

Polygamy Central - "Plural Marriage, a more Unbiased Look"

Tapestry Against Polygamy - "...by living polygamy we had each woven a unique story. Although all of our experiences in polygamy varied greatly, several common threads held us together, including an overwhelming desire to help liberate families adversely affected by polygamy."

BOOKS

Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, by C. Camron Hardy, University of Il. Pr., 1992. Book review: "Carmon Hardy has done an excellent job of describing the Mormon church's doctrinal change from a polygamous to a monogomist ethic. The first part of his book deals with the polygamous beginnings and early Mormon justification for the practice. Polygamy was considered the "family order of heaven" and was sanctioned by revelation given to the founding prophet Joseph Smith. Polygamy was practiced in secret until the Mormons came to Utah, were it was openly taught. Early church leaders even taught that polygamy was a requirement to reach the highest Heaven, where God dwells. Hardy spends the rest of his book describing the slow death of polygamy. Even though polygamy had always been against the law, the Federal government started passing tougher laws against the practice. The most strict law became the "Edmunds-Tucker act" in 1887, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1890. This law disincorporated the church and most of its properties. The church realized that it could not survive and so that same year the manifesto was issued, which publically stated the church would abandon plural marriage. However, it was not that simple. Hardy shows how many members of the church, including high church leaders, continued to practice polygamy well into the beginning of the next century. This created a discrepancy between what the church was saying (that they had given up polygamy) and what they were still doing (allowing some to continue in taking new wives). Hardy's final chapter deals with the issue of deception used by some in the church to try to keep the practice alive. "Solemn Covenant" is very well written and Hardy's keen sense of irony manifests itself throughout the book. Especially in the chapters that deal with the church being so strong in the doctrine of polygamy, to a church that is now strongly anti-polygamous. This is the best book about Mormon polygamy that I have read."