Category: Polygamy
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Nauvoo Expositor (excerpts, part 1)
The newspaper published in 1844 that exposed Joseph Smith’s polygamy practices and later led to his death after he ordered the printing press destroyed. For background information see: Full text of the Nauvoo Expositor available here (PDF) (typescript excerpts) NAUVOO EXPOSITOR —THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.— NAUVOO, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JUNE…
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Brigham Young’s Wives and His Divorce from Ann Eliza Webb
By Sandra Tanner [List of Brigham Young’s wives included at the end of this article.] In 1868 Brigham Young, at age sixty-seven, married Ann Eliza Webb, an attractive twenty-four-year-old divorcee with two children. Young had already married dozens of other women. LDS scholar Jeffery Johnson, writing on Brigham Young and his wives, explained: Sixteen women…
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Wanted: “One Mighty and Strong”
Continuous changes in the LDS church are accompanied by fundamentalist claims of apostasy and hopes that “one mighty and strong” leader has now arrived, as prophesied.
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Is Polygamy Part of God’s Plan for Marriage?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner When God created humans He instituted His plan for marriage: one man should have one wife. Genesis 2:24 states: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.(Genesis 2:24, KJV) [Bold in quotations is added for emphasis…
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Polygamist Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Tom Green, a modern-day polygamist in Utah, was given a five-year prison sentence on August 25, 2001. Green might never have come to the attention of the state if he had kept a low profile. Instead, he appeared on various television programs and granted numerous interviews, explaining his polygamist life-style.…
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Indian Polygamy Revelation
A look at Joseph Smith’s 1831 revelation commanding intermarriage between Latter-day Saints and American Indians in fulfillment of Book of Mormon prophecy.
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Doctrine and Covenants, Section 132
Date: July 12, 1843Place: Nauvoo, IllinoisRevelation to: Joseph Smith 1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the…
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Joseph Smith Sermon: Boasting and Denial of Polygamy
Responding to criticisms of being a fallen prophet and promoting polygamy, Joseph Smith boasts of maintaining a church better than anyone (including Jesus), and claims to have only one wife (while he actually had more).
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Covering Up Mormon Polygamy
Should leaders be trusted who have used so much deceit and cover-up in establishing their work?
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Mormon Doctrine Altered
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Unfortunately, most members of the Mormon Church are completely oblivious to the serious changes that have been made by church leaders since the days of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Dr. Hugh Nibley is proclaimed by many to be one of the greatest defenders the Mormon Church has ever known.…