Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...
The church disavowed polygamy in 1890 as a condition of Utah statehood, and today members of the faith found to be practicing plural marriage are excommunicated. Fundamentalist Mormons ...
where Mormons fled and went to Utah to be able to practice polygamy in peace.” Grenfell delved further, saying that those ...
It promises to expose polygamy and Christine’s experience as a lifelong member of the Mormon religious offshoot ... a sisterhood of wives to share him with. Raised in Utah by practicing polygamists, ...
Mormons challenged anti-polygamy statutes ... pardoned polygamists, and admitted Utah to the Union in 1896. The Manifesto, though never described as a revelation, has remained the official ...
"Let Utah alone," says B. H. Roberts. "Polygamy will die of itself," says the Mormon church. Polygamy, I reply, will die when we kill it, and not sooner. What matter if new polygamous marriages ...
In 1956 Utah authorities seized seven children of ... So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
On January 24, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, penned a ...
SALT LAKE, Utah, Nov. 28. -- At a meeting of the leaders of the Democratic Party of this State to inquire into the cause of the defeat of the party at the recent election, it was unanimously ...