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From the article: Although she does not directly point this out, the last year of her study, 1910, coincides with a letter sent to stake presidents instructing them to enforce the 1904 decree that those who entered into or performed new plural marriages would be liable to excommunication. Finally, it truly was no longer possible to marry "more wives than one" and remain in harmony with the Church.

Mormon "prophets" actually had two decrees vs. plural marriage: 1890 (Woodruff) and 1903 (Smith). B. Carmon Hardy in his book, Solemn Covenant, documents a few hundred specific additional plural marriages in his appendix -- these occurring between 1890-1910.

IOW, polygamy just went underground a bit more -- but was still solemnized by Mormon leaders...especially during the years of 1890-1903...in the 1900s, two Lds "apostles" were ex-communicated for still legitimizing polygamy. And it wasn't until this 1910 enforcement letter went around that Mormon leadership took seriously any line in the sand on polygamy.

So when people try to tell you Mormonism ended polygamy in 1890, they're "snowing you" -- or they just don't know.

Even in 1910, Mormon leadership didn't address existing polygamists. Some of those polygamous unions didn't die out until the early 1960s.

Also, if Mormons tell you or imply that polygamy is past tense, they indeed are snowin' you.

#1...they believe marriage is eternal...so all these 19th & 20th century polygamists, they think, are still practicing polygamy...it's just colonized to somewhere near Kolob.

#2...Mormon policy dictates that even Mormons living today can become eternal polygamists. All they need to do is to serially marry more than one spouse...and be sealed to each for eternity.

2 posted on 05/29/2011 4:00:26 PM PDT by Colofornian (Key Q for Romney & Huntsman: Show us your spirit-birth certificate from Kolob)
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God created ONLY Adam and Eve.

Not Adam and Eve and another Eve and another Eve, etc.


3 posted on 05/29/2011 4:02:30 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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still practicing polygamy...it's just colonized to somewhere near Kolob.

Or Utah. With magic underpants, anything is possible.

5 posted on 05/29/2011 4:05:18 PM PDT by humblegunner (Free Lazamataz!)
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