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- .^ The article on marriage, which was published in the early editions of the Doctrine and Covenants was frequently used by the early Mormon Church to counteract the report that polygamy was being practiced.
- Issue 66 - Salt Lake City Messenger 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1998, President Gordon B. Hinckley made the following statement about the Church’s position on plural marriage: “This Church has nothing whatever to do with those practicing polygamy.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ It appears that G. D. Smith hopes to capitalize on ignorance about nineteenth-century laws and practices regarding marriage and divorce.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
For the botany term, see Sexual reproduction in plants.
.^ Make no mistake about it, while polygamy is recorded to have been practiced in Scripture it by no means is endorsed by Scripture!- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ The article on marriage, which was published in the early editions of the Doctrine and Covenants was frequently used by the early Mormon Church to counteract the report that polygamy was being practiced.- Issue 66 - Salt Lake City Messenger 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Along the way, it will cast light not only on our domestic debates about marriage, but also on the war on terror and even the meaning of democracy itself.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Polygamy can be defined as any "
form of marriage in which a person [has] more than one spouse at the same time."
[1]
.^ Even while Elkanah is not depicted as an evil man, polygamy forced him to favor one wife over another, and his two wives were not friendly toward one another.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Make no mistake about it, while polygamy is recorded to have been practiced in Scripture it by no means is endorsed by Scripture!- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ This is the only recorded incident in Vedic history of a woman having more that one husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Otherwise, polyandry, or a woman having more that one husband, simply does not make much sense.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But none of these women could have more than one husband.
.^ The way I see it, polygamy is just another form of men vielding power over their women.- Finland for Thought » Problems with polygamy? | Politics, current events, culture - In Finland & the United States | Blog of an American living in Finland 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.finlandforthought.net [Source type: Original source]
^ (See "Forms of Polygamy" below.- Polygamy | ChaCha Answers 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.chacha.com [Source type: General]
^ Today in the West we see polygamy practiced in varies forms.- ISLAM UNCOVERED ™ : Polygamy in Islam 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.islamuncovered.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ It is thus consistent with her later behavior for her to have agreed (if only reluctantly) to a marriage with Fanny only to have second thoughts later.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Gay marriage, by contrast, is fully consistent with these values.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Two hundred pages later, we learn that this suspicion was only because of his [Clayton's] "discussion of plural marriage" (p.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ In a comparable fashion, the lesson on Eternal Marriage makes heavy use of section 132 to discuss Eternal Marriage, and includes several optional paragraphs (everything in a lesson, though, is optional) on Plural Marriage.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Some other relationships might benefit if they were given marriage rights but is that germaine when we're specifically discussing same sex marriage?- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And, if we see that the purpose of marriage is to have children, then it makes no sense, as it only takes one man to get one woman pregnant.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ However, most people identify the word polygamy to mean men taking more than one wife, and are not familiar with the word polygyny, i will use the word polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I can see how some forms of polygamy (whether polygyny or polyandry or a mix of both) might be used to oppress partners in the same way that our culturally acceptable form of pair-bonding can.- Brian Whitaker: Is there a serious problem with polygamy in the UK, or is the Baroness's attack simply point-scoring? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
.^ Polygamy can refer to either polyandry or polygyny.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We have been in a polygamous relationship for more than 6 years.
^ Rather, prior to the advent of Christ Roman law forbid a man to take more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[citation needed]
Forms of polygamy
.^ It’s one woman for one man.- How Can I Embrace Monogamy While My Genes Crave Polygamy? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ironshrink.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As we know, polygamy exists in 3 forms: ploygyny, polyandry and group-marriage.
^ It is generally assumed to mean only multiple wives ( polygyny ), not multiple husbands ( polyandry ) as well.- VDARE.com: 04/18/06� - Diversity Is Strength! It�s Also�Polygamy? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.vdare.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Anthropologist James Danandjaja said that polygamy was historically common in the country's patriarchal society but it was only practiced by kings or tribal chiefs, as a symbol of power.
^ Despite differing in many respects now from its earlier teachings and practices, the LDS Church still has much in common with fundamentalist Mormons (which is founded in early Mormonism).
^ Rauch conceded that, historically speaking, monogamy is an aberration—polygamy has been the most common form of marriage since biblical times.- Polygamy - The Atlantic(November 7, 2006) 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[2] .^ Yet there are other contemporary definitions for the terms that Joseph used—especially as applied to youth—that connote only relatively minor imperfections.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Polyandry
.^ His first wife insisted that she would only marry a man that would have more than one wife.
^ He said that the man should not marry more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Notice also that God did not make more than one woman for the Man!
.^ Tomorrow, I’ll deal with the procreation argument in two parts: one post on the standard version and one post on Maggie’s more subtle version.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the same talk he mentioned that the higher classes of men, the priest and government men, mostly they would take more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ More specifically, the practice of polygyny or a man having multiple wives, compared to polyandry or a woman having multiple husbands.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Polyandry is believed to be more likely in societies with scarce environmental resources, as it is believed to limit human population growth and enhance child survival.
.^ Many Endtime Message believers will retort that only the man can remarry but not the woman.
^ How many PMS weeks can one husband handle in a month?
^ With no money and often only eighth-grade educations, many end up homeless or in jail.
.^ On the other hand, there are stories of polygamous husbands giving greater attention and financial assistance to favored wives, while less favored wives had a difficult time surviving financially and emotionally.
^ In modern Wester though, though, individuals are more likely to think of themselves as independent units capable of providing for themselves, but choosing to pool resources and enter social contracts for the mutual benefits they can enjoy.
^ But just as many marriages succeeded, and sharing the burden of household chores actually allowed wives more freedom to pursue others interests, such as education.
.^ His first wife insisted that she would only marry a man that would have more than one wife.
^ Was it the ideal at Creation for the man to have more than one wife?- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Polygyny is the marriage of one man and two or more women.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
These wives could be simultaneously pregnant).
[3] .^ Much of the time, serial monogamists were poor and transient people, for whom the property rights that came with a recognized marriage would not have been much of a concern, people whose lives only rarely intersected with the law of marriage.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I don’t know any polygamists, though I exist only because of them (on both sides of the family).
^ And polygamy undercuts companionate monogamy, the only form of marriage that can function in a modern liberal society.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[4]
Group marriage
.^ And in marriage, all over the world, pairs are more common than more than pairs.
^ He said that the man should not marry more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Notice also that God did not make more than one woman for the Man!
[citation needed]
.^ She thought they were shacking up because they wanted to live with one another, on a long-term basis - like in marriage - like for life.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The idea of love as central to marriage, by no means common in the world at large, has a long history in the West, going back to the Bible, notably the letters of Paul.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ When performed by proxy, it is used to "seal" deceased married members of the LDS Church to each other for time and eternity, while for the living it serves as the current marriage ceremony.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ On the other hand, it seems to me significant that, in fact, the courts DIDN’T find otherwise—because suits were never brought against Joseph for the Kirtland marriages.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ In other words, his point is just that by endorsing gay marriage, we do not somehow lose our ability to independently consider the possible benefits and harms of group marriages.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
Bigamy
.^ If men become cultured to only marry chaste virgins this encourages chastity and purity in society. Another reason is that women are to adjust their personality to become compatible with the husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Adultery A single or married person who lives with another person's spouse as man and wife commits adultery.
^ A single or married person (male or female) who commits any of such acts is called a FORNICATOR. A married man or a married woman who lies with another person of the opposite sex commits fornication and not adultery (though the sexual act is often called an adulterous act).
.^ Beason (1890), the Supreme Court stated that: "Bigamy and polygamy are crimes by the laws of all civilized and Christian countries.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Allowing that divorce to proceed in the courts would have robbed the rest of BY’s family and the church, and Sarah had not been married that long; she really was not that invested.
^ They forget that it is the law of the land to only be married to one person.
^ (A minister once said that if the law of your country allows you to have more than one wife, you may marry another if you wish.
.^ If anyone knows more about this, I’m interested.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ I don’t know what to think about all that.
^ Even while Elkanah is not depicted as an evil man, polygamy forced him to favor one wife over another, and his two wives were not friendly toward one another.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
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.^ It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ This hinders the debate over gay marriage in the United States as well as the controversy over polygamy in France.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Article 3 Section 1: The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this State: First: -- Perfect toleration of religious sentiment is guaranteed.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
Having more than one spouse at the same time gets classified as polygamy, and bumped to a felony, if it is done "in purported exercise of a
plural marriage..." According to Joel
Feinberg in
Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: "Righteously, flaunting one's illicit relationships, according to the
Code, is apparently a morally aggravating circumstance, more punishable than its clandestine and deceptive counterpart."
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Serial monogamy
.^ If remarriage is allowed following divorce or death of a spouse, the marriage pattern could be defined as being "serial monogamy .- Human Culture: Glossary of Terms 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC anthro.palomar.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.- Is polygamy explicitly condemned in the bible 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.answers2prayer.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Both described themselves as first wives, married at 16, who joined their husbands in New York in the 1990s, never having attended school.- Special Reports - Polygamy, Practiced in Secrecy, Follows Many Immigrants from WestAfrica to New York 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.wehaitians.com [Source type: News]
Other forms of nonmonogamy
.^ Some other relationships might benefit if they were given marriage rights but is that germaine when we're specifically discussing same sex marriage?- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
One modern variant is
polyamory.
Patterns of occurrence worldwide
According to the
Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, of 1231 societies noted, 186 were monogamous.
.^ This particular post will focus on a more narrow and discrete topic: From a feminist perspective, is polyandry more or less acceptable than polygyny?
^ Although polygamy encompasses both polygyny, where a man has several wives, and polyandry, where a woman has several husbands, polygyny has been far more common in human (and other) societies.- The Becker-Posner Blog: Is There a Case for Legalizing Polygamy? BECKER 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
^ More often it is used to denote polygyny (several wives) than polyandry (several husbands).- polygamy Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.encyclopedia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[2] .^ We just don’t practice it in the traditional way where they are all married to each other at the same time while living.
^ SMITH. I think likely I have been practicing the same thing even before the law was passed ."- Issue 66 - Salt Lake City Messenger 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
^ How many men have had more than one wife? The law and society allow it, as long as the man has only one wife at a time.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ It should not be surprising, then, that there are no references to nor examples of polygamous marriages relationships seen in the Apostolic Scriptures.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ With a lone exception, there is no account after Joseph's death of Emma admitting Joseph's plural marriages in any account.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[8] .^ But i am only referring to men taking more than one wife, not women taking more than one husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If the majority of people are against Polygamy than will a majority of people get involved if it was suddenly legal?- The Becker-Posner Blog: Should Polygamy Be Legal?--Posner's Comment 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He said that the man should not marry more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In such a society, polygamy is defined as one man and many women.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Many Messianics consider Moses to be a figure worthy of emulation, and advocates of polygamy often claim that Moses had multiple wives.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ But, serial polygamy is totally legal in today's society and the majority of people who object if I were to take a second religious wife, they themselves practice irreligious polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This is why Srila Prabhupad says these laws prohibiting polygamy are typical of a 'demoniac' society.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There are communitarian benefits to gay marriage; there may well be serious communitarian harms to polygamy.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
[citation needed]Patterns of occurrence across religions
Samaritanism
Samaritanism is the only monotheistic religion that is monogomous based on the interpretation of the Samaritan Torah.
.^ You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ (A minister once said that if the law of your country allows you to have more than one wife, you may marry another if you wish.
^ After his father's death, Stanley S. Ivins copied the names of those who had been married in polygamy into another book and then gave the original book to the Mormon leaders.- Issue 66 - Salt Lake City Messenger 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC utlm.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ A man is not permitted then, to ever marry his wifes sister, or for that same matter marry any one of his wifes generic sisters (meaning females in the community) while she is alive.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ While we have good evidence that children do well when raised by two parents, including same-sex couples, we have no evidence they do well when raised in communal living arrangements.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is some difficulty with how to understand the phrase ishah el-achotah ( Htxa-la hVa ), literally meaning a woman to her sister.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Buddhism
In
Buddhism, marriage is not a sacrament. It is purely a secular affair and the monks do not participate in it. Hence it receives no religious sanction.
[9] Forms of marriage consequently vary from country to country.
.^ Polygamy is not a part of Mormonism and is not tolerated if it is found.
^ In such a society, polygamy is defined as one man and many women.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We believe in one woman and one man.
[11]Until 1935 polygyny was legally recognized in
Thailand. In
Burma, polygyny was also frequent.
.^ But, modern marriages are based on 'like' and 'dislike', which is flickering and temporary and is practically guaranteed to change from one day or year to the next.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These developments also opened legal channels for the prosecution of Latter-day Saints who were practicing plural marriage.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ We do not practice slavery or indentured servitude in modern society today, and very few of us will ever have to serve on a jury where the prosecution is seeking the death penalty.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
. In
Sri Lanka, polyandry was practiced (though not widespread) till recent times.
^ Even though G*d ended the practice, in a world most hostile to it, He still holds it a true principle and will doubtless restore the practice when He views the time as right.
[9] When the Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese, the concubines of others were added to the list of inappropriate partners.
.^ Otherwise, polyandry, or a woman having more that one husband, simply does not make much sense.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ More specifically, the practice of polygyny or a man having multiple wives, compared to polyandry or a woman having multiple husbands.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Yet Mormon wives or husbands were not held "in common," nor were members permitted unfettered access to any and all sexual partners.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12] .^ In today's world there is no set role, no set duty, and no peace, no harmony, no family, no real home.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Its so ironic but if Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were to return to this earth today, they would be most at home in the church of Warren Jeffs.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ When Leviticus 18:18 prohibits a son from sleeping with his fathers wife, this could very well not be his mother, but be his stepmother.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ E. Merrill, the son of an apostle, testified that his father had married him to a plural wife in 1891...- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ It does concern the selling of a young woman to a family as an intended wife for either the man or for his son (v.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Other forms of marriage are also present, like group marriage and monogamous marriage.
[13] .^ We call certain people pure, for example, pure Chinese or pure Indian, because their ancestors, who have been living in their parts of the world, have never mixed with any of the other races in their marriages.
.^ He said that the system is generally when the wife becomes pregnant that she will return to her mothers' house so she can be taken care of properly.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Many Messianic families already struggle financiallyand those are families made up of one husband, one wife, and multiple children (beyond the average three to four).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ The drama heats up when fiftysomething Metwalli Said, longtime husband of three, decides to court a young woman, Samira, in the hope of making her his fourth wife.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I have five kids, and three more 17-year-olds.
^ A 65 year old man marrying a 15 year old girl.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To give 12 year old (I heard recently even 11 year old) girls condoms in public schools and teach them how to engage in 'safe-sex' is 'acceptable' moral behavior? While the Vedic culture of the father arranging the marriage of a girl to be married as a child and to live as wife and become a mother - under strict religious marriage, is somehow immoral? It is different then the west, yes, but not wrong.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Polygyny is the marriage of one man and two or more women.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This statement was about a technically polyandrous marriage.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ The women "liked it," they "did not complain," and they did not leave when they could.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
Hinduism
.^ There are many splinter groups who are affiliate themselves with some of the teachings of the LDS church who do practice polygamy which, in my opinion causes the confusion.
^ How many men have had more than one wife? The law and society allow it, as long as the man has only one wife at a time.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ By the time Pratt allegedly told this to JF Smith, the Mormons were in Utah, and Pratt himself was a practicer and apologist for polygamy.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ There is no need for women having more than one husband, there is a need in society for religious men to give shelter to more than one woman.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Brother Branham related what happened, while he was up there on that mountain, concerning the amber Cloud coming down, going back and spreading out.
^ As long as he is only responsible for one wife at a time, then he can marry and divorce and remarry as often as he likes, to this there is no law against it.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Joseph Smiths attempt at plural marriage with Orson Pratts wife: Sister Pratt, the Lord has given you to me as one of my spiritual wives.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Even while Elkanah is not depicted as an evil man, polygamy forced him to favor one wife over another, and his two wives were not friendly toward one another.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ We have also proved that both God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ inherit their wives in eternity as well as in time...- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ And Krishna expanded Himself into 16,108 expansions so that he was able to spend full time with each wife simultaneously.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And, in Krishna's appearance here on earth 5,000 years ago Krishna, God Himself, married not just 2 or 3 wives, or 2 or 3 hundred wives, but He married 16,108 wives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In this number there was an excess of 5,055 males over females.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The question would be: Were there any "lost boys" in the early LDS Church teenage and young adult males forced out of the church because their numbers were too high, as compared to the number of teenage and young adult females?
^ Far from there being any fault with the female Eve, humanitys expulsion rests with the sin of the male Adam (Romans 5:12) who was not deceived and knew exactly what he ate.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Historically, kings routinely took concubines (such as the
Vijaynagara emperor,
Krishnadevaraya).
.^ Mormons DO NOT practice polygamy, the FUNDAMENTALIST mormons still do.
^ Now, I may have taken some liberty to exaggerate the figures a bit, but it illustrates a true reality in society.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Also, my mom was the editor of the one volume edition and she might even still get some sort of royalties for it (although I doubt it).- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ I dont think religions should be allowed to tell us what our laws ought to be regarding marriage.
^ It is the system of marriage according to the laws of Sanatan-Dharma (Eternal-Religion).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We believe in following and abiding by the law and if someone in my religion were to break the law and be in plural marriage they wouldn't belong to our church any longer.
.^ Why is Polygamy illegal and gay marriages not?
^ The New and Everlasting Covenant, known as Celestial Marriage- Plurality of Wives (Polygamy)-cannot commit adultery, men can become gods has never ceased being performed by The Mormon Church.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ JS allowed Zina (as with all his other wives who were married to other men) to continue to live and cohabit with her first husband, Henry.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
[16]
Judaism
Biblical practice
The Hebrew scriptures document approximately forty polygamists.
. In practice, multiple marriage was considered a realistic alternative in the case of famine, widowhood, or female infertility.
^ These so-called alternative life-styles must not be accepted as right, because they frustrate Gods commandment for a life-giving union of male and female within a legal marriage as stated in Genesis.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These so-called alternative life-styles must not be accepted as right, because they frustrate God's commandment for a life-giving union of male and female within a legal marriage as stated in Genesis.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So, although the best way to preach is by setting the proper example (practice what you preach), in my case, I will have to settle for simply preaching what I know to be needed and what is right and let others practice it.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[17] One source of polygamy was the practice of
levirate marriage, wherein a man was required to marry and support his deceased brother's
widow, as mandated by
Deuteronomy 25:5–10.
.^ The 1862 federal Morrill Act was not the first law which made bigamy illegal; it was merely the first law which specifically reinforced existing state anti-bigamy laws.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Likewise, with respect to the practice of polygamy after the Manifesto, the text never states that polygamy stopped on or before September 24, 1890.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ The Practice of "Sealings" Once again, before polygamy, marriage was just that; marriage.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ A wife will become the mother of the man's children.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He remarried another man's wife after the man died.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Blackmore certainly does not hate his mother, who was a plural wife.
[19] The king's behavior is condemned by Prophet Samuel in
1Samuel 8.
Exodus 21:10 also speaks of Jewish concubines. Israeli lexicographer Vadim Cherny argues that the Torah carefully distinguishes concubines and "sub-standard" wives with prefix "to", lit. "took to wives."
[20]
.^ Only a few wealthy kings such as Herod the Great were polygamous (Josephus Jewish War 1.562), and just like the kings of Ancient Israel, his household too was a place of extreme problems.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire....Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
[21]
Modern practice
.^ This world is just out of whack, why would we not expect polygamy in olden days and the modern church not to be completely crazy too?
^ G. D. Smith appears to relish pointing out that Latter-day Saint prophets taught that polygamy was essential for salvation and then contrasting this with the church's current stance (p.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Ashkenazi Jews have followed
Rabbenu Gershom's ban since the 11th century.
[22] .^ Now for my proposition; it is more particularly for my sisters, as it is frequently happening that women say they are unhappy.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The abandonment of polygamy, that is considered by some to be so easy of accomplishment, is more untenable even than fighting.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ I'd like to hear more from some of the women on Free Republic what they think of polygamy as an accepted institution for themselves or their daughters.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The cost of happiness, the cost of peaceful family life, the cost of the children who suffer from a non-existent real mother in their youth (as mother was too busy with her career).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Two Houses of Israel : House of Judah : House of Ephraim : Land of Israel : Torah in Perspective Is Polygamy for Today?- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today?- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ He [a priest] shall take a wife in her virginity (Leviticus 21:13).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ He tells a man to love his wife, and what that means is that he gives himself up for her.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This means that the fathers could be giving their daughter to a man as a second or 3rd or greater wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Is polygamy permittedor is there more to consider?- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ In countries that allow polygamy it is only practiced by a few men, not by the masses.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I heard one of these men once describe church at his home as “dead” — he said that all they talked about was polygamy; there was no attention to any other principle.
Israel
.^ The 1862 federal Morrill Act was not the first law which made bigamy illegal; it was merely the first law which specifically reinforced existing state anti-bigamy laws.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Likewise, with respect to the practice of polygamy after the Manifesto, the text never states that polygamy stopped on or before September 24, 1890.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus, polygamy became specifically illegal under U. S. common laws in 1850; but, since polygamy was also illegal under Mexican laws beforehand, there was never a time when polygamy was legal in Utah.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This article is an attempt to convince others of the need for allowing it's practice openly and legally in all of human society, not just within the religious society that I adhere to.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Although state law will continue to value children and families, Huntsman said, "circumstances occasionally exist where a child must be freed from the legal bonds of their parents."
.^ Therefore, I am totally in favor of seeing polygamy made legal.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Since polygamy was unannounced yet practiced, credance [ sic ] was given to the claims of former Mormons which cast even more doubt upon the Prophet's character.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Christianity
.^ Finally Polygamy historically old and new testament was allowed only when specific conditions were accepted.
^ Polygamy was allowed by ancient Jewish law, it was allowed in the Old Testament.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Although most recognized this as a sacrifice which would assist in liquidating Church debts, to William Law it sounded too much like totalitarianism.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The key is not just marriage to any man, but to be 'properly' protected means they must marry a man who is properly trained to be a good husband and father.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Indeed, this is followed by the instruction, Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests (Deuteronomy 17:18).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ Certainly there is no law for it.- Bigamy (in Canon Law) 20 September 2009 3:18 UTC www.catholicity.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They begin to marry and bear children.
^ Although the revelation only specifically mentions that a man can have 'ten" wives, the favorable reference to the wives of king Solomon who was a polygamist in the Bible and had numerous wives leads to the conclusion that a man can have even more than ten wives.
[27]
.^ The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints commonly called 'Mormons" DOES NOT PRACTICE POLYGAMY. If they did they would be excomunicated.
^ The following are some specific individuals from the Tanach that are often provided as examples of why polygamy should be an acceptable practice for Messianic men today.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ So why did the founding prophet of the LDS church contradict and violate his own "revelations", as well as the laws of the land, by secretly teaching and practicing polygamy?- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Many Endtime Message believers will retort that only the man can remarry but not the woman.
^ There is no need for women having more than one husband, there is a need in society for religious men to give shelter to more than one woman.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One so-called minister from Africa wrote in his letter to me that when sexual union had taken place between a man and a woman, it would automatically be considered a marriage.
[28] .^ "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His first wife insisted that she would only marry a man that would have more than one wife.
^ He said that the man should not marry more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[29]
.^ Finally Polygamy historically old and new testament was allowed only when specific conditions were accepted.
^ Josie, I actually find no evidence in the new testament that polygamy came from Heavenly Father.
.^ Timothy 2:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife , vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 1 Tim.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We are to have one wife and one husband.
^ Paul is by no means telling Timothy that male leaders must be the husband of at least one wife.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Something similar is repeated in the first chapter of the
Epistle of Titus; however, the author of 1 Corinthians (chapter 7, verse 2) writes, "Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let
every man have his own wife, and let
every woman have her own husband." In modern times a minority of Roman Catholic theologians have argued that polygamy, though not ideal, can be a legitimate form of Christian marriage in certain regions, in particular Africa.
[30][31] The Roman Catholic Church teaches in its Catechism that
.^ Ohio 1969) "overruled" Beason in regards to adverse consequences for advocacy; but, polygamy laws, and thereby the morality upon which such laws were based, are still on the books.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
[Conjugal] communion is radically contradicted by polygamy; this, in fact, directly negates the plan of
.^ The polygamous women make this arguement: They point out that few men are truly worthy of a good woman’s love.
^ There is no need for women having more than one husband, there is a need in society for religious men to give shelter to more than one woman.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Let men be the great thinkers and builders and laborers, let the women be the affectionate mothers, the great women who use their sensitive emotions to 'care' for others.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[32]
.^ For those of you who do not think that polygamy was/is an actual inspired or doctrine, or feel that the early church’s practice of that doctrine was misguided (i.e.
^ David is touted in Scripture as being a man after Gods own heart (1 Samuel 13:14), yet the Biblical record is clear that he practiced polygamy.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Therefore the idea that polygamy is not Christian or not allowed or is immoral according to the teachings of the Bible have no basis at all.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ That was not 'punishment' for taking a second wife, it was simply the standards that must be followed.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He requested to be allowed to take the girl as his second wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ It is also highly offensive to the many thousands of adult women who have chosen to live their beliefs in plural marriage.
The double marriage was to be done in secret however, to avoid public scandal.
[35] .^ Some of these men marry, but it is does not last.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1840, the doctrine was taught to a few leading brethren who, with the Prophet, secretly married additional wives in the following year.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He Contended that no person Could have a Celestial glory unless He had a plurality of wives.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
("
Ego sane fateor, me non posse prohibere, si quis plures velit uxores ducere, nec repugnat sacris literis.")
[36]
.^ I decided not to post the full book on the Internet because it contains many quotes from his lectures and books and letters that are mostly of interest only to his immediate followers.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The two had been a couple off and on for two years and Hopkins was killed at a West Jordan apartment Dutson shared with two other young men.
^ She asked if there was any other alternative, and I told her, yes, there is no age limit, you could consider an older man as well.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ (A minister once said that if the law of your country allows you to have more than one wife, you may marry another if you wish.
^ Nestorian priests were always allowed to marry and could remarry a second or third time ( CE ibid.- Polygamy in the Bible and the Koran (No. 293) 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ccg.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ A man may marry up to four women.- Relationships/Monogamy and Polygamy - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC en.wikibooks.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
- Monogamy and Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.eioba.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In monogamous societies, man 1 will marry women 1, and man 2 women 2.- The Becker-Posner Blog: Is There a Case for Legalizing Polygamy? BECKER 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In Islam, we are allowed to marry 4 women at a time.
The men were admonished to behave honorably, provide for their wives properly, and prevent animosity among them."
[37][38][39][40][41]
.^ If serial polygamy (divorce and remarriage) is tolerated and legal, then there is absolutely no reason in the world why true polygamy should remain illegal (a Felony).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There are communitarian benefits to gay marriage; there may well be serious communitarian harms to polygamy.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There was also the issue that since it was illegal several members pointed out that it may cause serious legal problems for ISKCON. .- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[43] .^ She thought they were shacking up because they wanted to live with one another, on a long-term basis - like in marriage - like for life.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The very nature of multiple wife marriages takes care of that problem automatically.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Therefore, all these things are accepted in Vedic culture to help to assure a life-long marriage, which is to the individual's and society's benefit. .- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I realize that now there are more differences between the mainstream LDS church and the former RLDS/now Community of Christ.
^ By the second century, polygamy had completely faded from the Christian Church.
^ I know there are people who see no difference between the polygamy practices of the FLDS Church and the early LDS Church.
.^ When performed by proxy, it is used to "seal" deceased married members of the LDS Church to each other for time and eternity, while for the living it serves as the current marriage ceremony.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I thougth there might be some other ansonites out there.
^ And I feel kind of like, even if it was commanded for a while, there must have been some reason behind it other than it’s just the way it’s supposed to be.
.^ The LDS church does not practice polygamy and.
^ Those who practice polygamy are not Mormons.
^ Polygamy is not recognized by the church and definetly not practiced.
Mormonism
The history of Mormon polygamy (more accurately, polygyny) begins with
Mormonism founder
Joseph Smith stating that he received a revelation from God on July 17, 1831 that some Mormon men would be allowed to practice "
plural marriage". This was later set down in the
Doctrine and Covenants by the
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
[44] .^ Joseph Smith publicly denied repeatedly that he was practicing polygamy.
^ That was the doctrine of plural marriage by divine sanction.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Doctrine and Covenants Section 101 - Article on Marriage .- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ President John Taylor died in the Mormon underground.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ John C. Bennett and Oliver Olney had published about polygamy, and Godfrey argues that "such extensive publicity appears to have aroused the public against Mormonism and its marriage system."- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The touching experience today when mormon families reunite after the veil in the temple, started out as an experience Smith could use to show how polygamy worked in heaven.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
[45] .^ In fact, most of his plural wives were young.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The final nail on the coffin which demonstrates polygamy's illegality was when Ann Eliza Webb filed for "divorce" from Brigham Young and sued him for alimony in 1877.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Ever wonder what today's Mormon Church would be like if Joseph Smith had never practiced polygamy?- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The New and Everlasting Covenant, known as Celestial Marriage- Plurality of Wives (Polygamy)-cannot commit adultery, men can become gods has never ceased being performed by The Mormon Church.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ No legal marriage licenses were ever applied for nor granted, and every single child born of Mormon "plural marriages" was illegitimate - i.e.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Above all else, one's attitude toward Joseph, the church, and plural marriage will influence how such contradictory and biased testimony is interpreted.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[49] .^ Nauvoo innovations, notably plural marriage .- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Nauvoo Polygamy begins with an odd introduction to plural marriage—G. D. Smith makes Napoleon Bonaparte a Joseph Smith doppelgänger by quoting a letter from the future Emperor to Josephine about their first night together: "I have awakened full of you.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This is only nine marriages out of Todd Compton's list of thirty-three—or G. D. Smith's list of thirty-eight—plural marriages.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The Nauvoo City Council, led by Mayor Joseph Smith, declared the press a nuisance, and ordered it destroyed.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ G. D. Smith reproduced Nauvoo Polygamy 's introduction, with minor edits, in the Council for Secular Humanism's flagship publication, Free Inquiry .- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Joseph and the city council ordered the press destroyed, and the resulting furor resulted in his imprisonment and death from a mob attack.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Plural marriages continue .- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those who continue the practice are not "Mormons".
^ Nauvoo innovations, notably plural marriage .- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[50].^ God told us to stop the practice of plural marriage so we stopped.
^ Even these would probably not think of their participation as "cursory," since a majority of men never practiced plural marriage at all.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ An RLDS conservative, Price is committed to the stance that Joseph did not teach or practice plural marriage.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ A Duane Litfin indicates, Virtually all commentators agree that this phrase prohibits both polygamy and promiscuity, which are unthinkable for spiritual leaders in the church.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ A true Mormon follows the laws of the land, and that includes NOT supporting polygamy.
^ I'd like to remind them that the term "Mormon" was given to the original church PRIOR to the adoption of polygamy, throughout the practice of polygamy, and following the banning of polygamy over 100 years ago.
[51] .^ Any writer knows that you need to check your facts before you publish a piece of work or else they run the risk of becoming discredited.
.^ Republicans called slavery and polygamy "twin relics of barbarism," and Lincoln attacked Douglas over both issues in the campaign of 1860.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Edmunds Act was an amendment to strengthen the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Law of 1862: .- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Republican Party platform Slavery and polygamy are the twin relics of barbarism .- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
The LDS Church believed that their religiously-based practice of plural marriage was protected by the
United States Constitution,
[53] however, the unanimous 1878
Supreme Court decision
Reynolds v. . declared that polygamy was not protected by the Constitution, based on the longstanding legal principle that "laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices."
^ According to Reynolds v United States (1878), it was held that: "Laws are made for the government of actions, and while they cannot interfere with mere religious belief and opinions, they may with practices."- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But, the law has made their form of irreligious serial polygamy legal, so they are free to criticize a religious person from practicing true religious polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ They are simply not interested in practicing true, religiously centered, polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[54]
.^ That is where we are at with anti-polygamy legislation.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Josie - Those of us who question the legitimacy of Mormon polygamy also question the legitimacy of polygamy as practiced by Abraham et al.
^ HEY! Just like the founder of mormonism and POLYGAMY in the US, Joseph Smith!- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ President Wilford Woodruff issued the manifesto...- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The LDS church does not practice polygamy and.
^ Prophet Wilford Woodruff, Official Declaration 1 (also known as "The 1890 Manifesto") in the Doctrine and Covenants , 1981 ed.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ This predominantly non-Mormon party opposed statehood, as they felt that the shackles of the local theocracy had not yet been removed from all the people of Utah.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In 1893, as a result of the Manifesto and after years of antagonism to Mormon polygamy, the Salt Lake Tribune, which had been the organ of the Liberal ( anti-Mormon ) party, came out in favor of statehood, thus ending any opposition to statehood from inside the state.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ These women did a beautiful job of portraying a "Normal" life but like I say poligamy is not a "Normal" practice for UTAH MORMONS. .
.^ The LDS church does not practice polygamy and.
^ And that the LDS church does not practice polygamy.
^ Again, the LDS church does NOT practice polygamy.
.^ Any so-called members of the church who practice polygamy is excommunicated.
^ Those who continue the practice are not "Mormons".
^ The LDS church does not practice polygamy and.
.^ Leadership continues to take plural wives .- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ JS allowed Zina (as with all his other wives who were married to other men) to continue to live and cohabit with her first husband, Henry.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Even when Ancient Israel was subject to Gods judgment, it was both husband and wife [that] shall be taken (Jeremiah 6:11), as opposed to a husband and his herem of wives.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
[55]
.^ Plural marriages continue .- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The LDS church does not practice polygamy and.
^ "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904."- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
[56] .^ This hinders the debate over gay marriage in the United States as well as the controversy over polygamy in France.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Note that the Utah Commission did not state precisely where these marriages occurred.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Note that the Utah Commission did not state where these marriages occurred.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Fundamentalist Mormons broke with the mainstream church when it renounced polygamy in 1890.
^ As to the unabated anger at the polygamists refering to themselves as "Mormon", it has nothing to do with the LDS church.
^ I heard the polygamist family referred to as "Mormons" but they are Not.
.^ Such doctrines as plural marriage .- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ President John Taylor went to the Lord in the True Order of Prayer and asked the Lord concerning His mind and His will concerning continuing practice of plural marriage in the LDS Church?- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Above all else, one's attitude toward Joseph, the church, and plural marriage will influence how such contradictory and biased testimony is interpreted.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[57] .^ SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (28 articles) .- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ You have said more than once that in living in polygamous relations with your wives, which you do and intend to do, you knew that you were disobeying this revelation?- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ And they idealize the early saints’ polygamous relationships: “there were so many excess women, they needed protection and provision, God needed to raise up seed,” etc.
[58]
Islam
.^ And it certainly wasn't the revelation that polygamy was permitted (from that time) to the Christian men!
^ No-one can claim a nickname they didn't come up with only applies to them and no-one else can use it.
^ Even while Elkanah is not depicted as an evil man, polygamy forced him to favor one wife over another, and his two wives were not friendly toward one another.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ So, he said the men who are able they should take at least 3 wives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At one point he said that if men today do not accept at least 12 wives they will all go to hell (in reference to so many women who were being exploited by degraded men.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I have one good husband, and that is enough for me.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Wives of great emperors didn't have to fear that their husbands may take more than one wife, so their positions were safe.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If the man has had two wives, with one wife dying and him marrying a second time, he cannot disregard children born from his first marriage.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ That leaves 50 other women who will have no qualified husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Many women today have more than one husband in the form of serial polyandry, by marrying, divorcing and remarrying.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ How many women today have had more than one husband?- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And, this is also confirmed in the Islamic countries that do allow polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Also with the association that the LDS Church still harbors polygamy within it's walls/teachings is bull.
^ Thereafter, the LDS church prohibited the practice of polygamy while it continues to permit the practice of men being sealed to more than one wife (although the man is prohibited for being a bigamist).- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And, this is also confirmed in the Islamic countries that do allow polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But such missionaries never encourage continuous polygamy , prohibiting it for the next generation of Believers, and rightly training them that a proper marriage is between one man and one woman.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ Monogamy was an ongoing situation in many nations throughout the world: the Chinese Han people in ancient China, the Dong, the Manchus and the Yao.- Polygamy in the Bible and the Koran (No. 293) 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ccg.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Plans to open branches of a Malaysian "Polygamy Club" in Indonesia have upset women's groups and religious leaders in the world's most populous Muslim nation...
^ Joseph Smith, apparently, felt that what he was doing was very different than “bigamy” or polygamy.- LDSLF: Polygamy and the Wilford Woodruff Manual 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC ldsliberationfront.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ Note that polygyny is rare even in those Muslim countries that allow it, such as Iran.- The Becker-Posner Blog: Is There a Case for Legalizing Polygamy? BECKER 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Polygamy may be abhorrent to most Americans, but in the global community it is common, normal and accepted.
^ Polygamists may be members of the FLDS church or some other church - of which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints (aka Mormon church) has nothing to do with.
.^ Men in this mainly Muslim country are allowed up to four wives, according to Islamic Sharia law.
^ Under Islamic law, men can be married to as many as four wives.
^ A Malay man may take up to four wives.- The Becker-Posner Blog: Is There a Case for Legalizing Polygamy? BECKER 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The wives are often unaware of the fact that other women are 'sharing' their husbands with them.- Whisper Article - Meeting Place for Reverts/Converts To Islam 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.convertstoislam.com [Source type: Original source]
- Women in Islam Versus Women in Christianity and Judaism - A comparative Study 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.themodernreligion.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And all other women are to be respected the same as one's own mother.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The wives are often unaware of the fact that other women are sharing their husbands with them.- Polygamy in the Judeo-Christian tradition in the west and in islam 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.thewaytotruth.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ They got married about a year later.
^ Because many have misunderstood what the Prophet had said.
^ She described boys who have little recourse in a community where self worth is based on how many wives you are "given" by the prophet, based on merit that is decided by him and the God he alone speaks for.
.^ I think in heaven just like on earth, polygamy will be the exception rather than the rule.
^ If one man is supposed to have multiple wives, this means that some men don’t get any.
^ So, he said the men who are able they should take at least 3 wives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ So, why is polygamy needed in today's world?- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This world is just out of whack, why would we not expect polygamy in olden days and the modern church not to be completely crazy too?
^ The attack from the left, and pressure from France's allies in Africa (where public anger at the polygamy remarks ran high), quickly forced President Chirac, through a spokesman, to distance his government from the controversy.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[59] .^ He has not addressed what many consider the more subsantive arguments against it, such as those raised in the comments.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The great Jewish Sage Hillel significantly frowned upon polygamy, saying, lots of women, lots of witchcraft; lots of slave girls, lots of lust (m.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ But such missionaries never encourage continuous polygamy , prohibiting it for the next generation of Believers, and rightly training them that a proper marriage is between one man and one woman.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ (A minister once said that if the law of your country allows you to have more than one wife, you may marry another if you wish.
^ JS allowed Zina (as with all his other wives who were married to other men) to continue to live and cohabit with her first husband, Henry.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The Lord was quoting what was written in that law, found in Deuteronomy 24:1-4, that it was wrong for a man to divorce his wife on grounds other than fornication.
Legal situation
.^ In America monogomy is not at all a common thing in or out side of marriage and it's considered not a crime.
^ Nineteen of the present-day states permit unrestricted marriage between first cousins, and most countries have no restrictions at all on marriage between cousins.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If he were to 'legally' marry more than one wife, obtaining State marriage licenses for each one, this would be considered a Felony in most states, punishable by fine and prison time.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Growing up I had a friend from a polygamous family, and several years ago I lived across the street from a polygamous wife and her children .
.^ They are crimes by the laws of the United States, and they are crimes by the laws of Idaho.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The 1862 federal Morrill Act was not the first law which made bigamy illegal; it was merely the first law which specifically reinforced existing state anti-bigamy laws.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Inside Polygamy" stated that although 30,000 to 50,000 people are involved in polygamy (rooted in 19th-century Mormonism), the actual number may be much higher.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
[60]
.^ (A minister once said that if the law of your country allows you to have more than one wife, you may marry another if you wish.
^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But such missionaries never encourage continuous polygamy , prohibiting it for the next generation of Believers, and rightly training them that a proper marriage is between one man and one woman.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ (A minister once said that if the law of your country allows you to have more than one wife, you may marry another if you wish.
^ We have recently had published in some of the Utah papers some letters on this subject, and one from Joseph Smith, the eldest son of the Prophet, in which a great deal of sophistry is made use of, special pleading, such as the lawyer that he is, seems only capable of using.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Until that time, faithful members married in the temple to only one spouse did not have a celestial marriage!- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
[61]
.^ Such a dishonest man may be punished, but if polygamy were legal, then men would not need to be so dishonest either.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
By country
.^ (In some European countries the legal age is 14 for these girls).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Roberts's discussion of the Expositor reminds the reader of "the introduction of the practice of the new marriage system of the church, permitting under special conditions a plurality of wives," and notes that the dissident paper had "charged the Prophet with exercising illegal authority, both in ecclesiastical and civil affairs; with the introduction of the plural wife system, and other supposed doctrinal heresies; with gross immoralities; and malfeasance in the administration of the affairs of the church."- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ No-one can claim a nickname they didn't come up with only applies to them and no-one else can use it.
31/1993, Art.
.^ Even when Ancient Israel was subject to Gods judgment, it was both husband and wife [that] shall be taken (Jeremiah 6:11), as opposed to a husband and his herem of wives.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ If the man has had two wives, with one wife dying and him marrying a second time, he cannot disregard children born from his first marriage.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ According to the Vedas, generally the first wife is given a bit higher respect by the other co-wives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
(See
Polygamy in Libya.)
Malaysia: Permitted for Muslims; required to obtain judicial consent, show financial capability, and several strict conditions. .^ The 1862 federal Morrill Act was not the first law which made bigamy illegal; it was merely the first law which specifically reinforced existing state anti-bigamy laws.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ As Wikipedia points out: The proposition amended California's marriage law, adding section 308.5 of the Family Code stating Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Hence, there is a difference between living under the Law of God and living under the Grace of God.
[64]
Morocco: Permitted for Muslims, restrictions apply.
Pakistan: Illegal for non-Muslims. .^ JS allowed Zina (as with all his other wives who were married to other men) to continue to live and cohabit with her first husband, Henry.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Wives of great emperors didn't have to fear that their husbands may take more than one wife, so their positions were safe.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If the man is the sole provider and he takes care of her basic needs, nice clothes, pays the bills, etc., then the wife can take good care of her husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
This permission is documented at the time of the Nikah and forms part of the Nikah-nama (agreement of Nikah). .
South Africa: Legalised for indigenous, black traditionalists by the Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998.
Tunisia: Illegal.
Turkey: Illegal.
United Kingdom: Illegal if the marriage took place in the UK, but recognized (for some private purposes; but not for e.g.^ And the next marriage took place in 1891?- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ It does not, however, require any clergy or religious official to solemnize any marriage in violation of his/her right to free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the California Constitution.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
pension, immigration or citizenship rights) if it took place in another country where the law allows it if the parties were domiciled in that country.[65]
United States: Illegal in all 50 states (but see Polygamy in the United States)
Uzbekistan: Illegal.
Africa
.^ What all of this means is that in order to discuss the legal aspects of polygamy, we have to clarify what the moral concerns are first of all.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I started this page to write about polygamy, but got a little off-topic by covering all the 'related' aspects, because in Vedic culture, all the aspects are related, so I could not talk about one aspect without explaining something about all other aspects.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ All of the federal laws enacted against Mormon polygamy from 1862 to 1879 merely served to force the Mormons to comply with existing common laws.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And in marriage, all over the world, pairs are more common than more than pairs.
^ However, Snow told the Quorum of the 12 on 11 July 1901 that there were to be no more plural marriages.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Wherever the emphasis of marriage is placed on procreation or the sexual satisfaction of the man, more than likely polygyny will flourish ( ABD ).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ The children of families that stay together will become productive and responsible members of society.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ How many men have had more than one wife? The law and society allow it, as long as the man has only one wife at a time.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Many Messianic families already struggle financiallyand those are families made up of one husband, one wife, and multiple children (beyond the average three to four).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Thus polygamy was part of empire building.
.^ This is only nine marriages out of Todd Compton's list of thirty-three—or G. D. Smith's list of thirty-eight—plural marriages.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ [P]erhaps the only known plural marriage was that between Joseph Smith and Fanny Alger.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Two hundred pages later, we learn that this suspicion was only because of his [Clayton's] "discussion of plural marriage" (p.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Esther Stanford, an African-focused lawyer, states that this decline was encouraged because the issues of property ownership conflicted with European colonial interest.
[66] .^ Also muslims prctice polygamy in the US but keep it very clandestine.
^ Gay marriage and polygamy are not only not united by any single common principle necessary to the argument for gay marriage, but for the traditionalist, the affirmative arguments for them are quite distinct.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
However, the diffusion of Islam to this region has (rather counterintuitively) decreased the prevalence of polygyny in this region
[67]
South Africa
.^ The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints commonly called 'Mormons" DOES NOT PRACTICE POLYGAMY. If they did they would be excomunicated.
[68] .^ The New and Everlasting Covenant, known as Celestial Marriage- Plurality of Wives (Polygamy)-cannot commit adultery, men can become gods has never ceased being performed by The Mormon Church.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smiths attempt at plural marriage with Orson Pratts wife: Sister Pratt, the Lord has given you to me as one of my spiritual wives.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ President Joseph F. Smith admitted that he had had eleven children borne to him by his five wives, since pledging himself to obey the revealed manifesto of 1890...- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ But, the worst thing is that these children, for the most part, will tend to loose respect for all authority.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Fathers will continue to be the loving and caring full time fathers of their first wife's children as well as all other children from other wives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Many of these children grow up to become the social miss-fits or low-class citizens and all of society degrades further down and suffers.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[69][70] .^ In Africa, co-wives and their children generally live in separate houses or huts.- Polygamy Versus Democracy - You can't have both. 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.freerepublic.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I also gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ He also says, I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms (NIV) or possession of your master's wives (NJPS).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
[71]
Sudan
.^ Polygamy would not increase the population.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But such missionaries never encourage continuous polygamy , prohibiting it for the next generation of Believers, and rightly training them that a proper marriage is between one man and one woman.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ And indeed, history does show examples where the religious authorities have allowed for polygamy when the population of a country has been utterly devastated by war.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
[72]
Asia
The
Chinese culture of
Confucianism and thus the practice of polygamy spread from China to
Korea and areas that are now
Vietnam.
.^ First, modern liberal societies have emphasized values like individualism and sex equality that seem inconsistent with polygamy as it has been practiced.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ His wife is all for it (although their idea of polygamy is a bit more out there sexually than what I would guess most modern polygamists practice).
^ On Lawn ( mail ) ( www ): Dale, First, modern liberal societies have emphasized values like individualism and sex equality that seem inconsistent with polygamy as it has been practiced.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
[73]South Asia
.^ As Dale knows, all laws are to some extent over- or under-inclusive.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ It is the very refinement of cruelty, this polygamy, and it hurts are deeper and more poisonous than any other wounds can be.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Anyone believing in Israels full restoration today, and the so-called restoration of polygamy , will actually do more to deter or stop such a restoration than accelerate it!- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
India
.^ Religious polygamy is illegal, irreligious polygamy is legal.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Polygamy is now illegal even in India, the land of dharma.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus, polygamy became specifically illegal under U. S. common laws in 1850; but, since polygamy was also illegal under Mexican laws beforehand, there was never a time when polygamy was legal in Utah.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But, the law has made their form of irreligious serial polygamy legal, so they are free to criticize a religious person from practicing true religious polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So, a man could, even under Roman law, have more than one 'woman', but only one legal wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Since the authority rests solely on the few in charge and their "revelations", what, other than state or federal law, would keep them from sanctioning polygamy in the future?
^ Anyone believing in Israels full restoration today, and the so-called restoration of polygamy , will actually do more to deter or stop such a restoration than accelerate it!- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ When a man takes more than one wife with the motive of giving protection to the women, then his actions are totally moral and religious, polygamy for the purpose of protection is dharma, it is religion.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
Incidence was highest among
Adivasis (15.25%) and Buddhists (7.9%); Hindus, by comparison, had an incidence of 5.8%.
[74]
Polygamy is generally quite rare in urban areas, and among the cosmopolitan middle classes.
Mongolia
.^ If serial polygamy (divorce and remarriage) is tolerated and legal, then there is absolutely no reason in the world why true polygamy should remain illegal (a Felony).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Thus, polygamy became specifically illegal under U. S. common laws in 1850; but, since polygamy was also illegal under Mexican laws beforehand, there was never a time when polygamy was legal in Utah.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There are many splinter groups who are affiliate themselves with some of the teachings of the LDS church who do practice polygamy which, in my opinion causes the confusion.
[75]
Thailand
.^ These are the men who are qualified to give as many wives protection as they can maintain.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the same talk he mentioned that the higher classes of men, the priest and government men, mostly they would take more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But it is maintained if she became unfaithful after her marriage and if her children, in turn, followed her example; for Israel became unfaithful after God chose her, and her descendants then followed in the same pattern of life.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Among the
royalty and courtiers in the past, wives were classified as principal, secondary, and
slave.
.^ What some men have done in the past is to marry more than one wife, often times in different states, and none of the wives knew about the other women.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One of the obvious errors of those believing that polygamy can, or should, be practiced today is in failing to recognize the types of men who had multiple wives.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Polygamy (one man married to two or more living wives) may not be practiced today in the church, but its influence on church doctrine and practices still haunts the lives of millions of active members.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ They are just young men (mostly young teenagers) who have become competition to the older men who want more (and usually much younger) wives.
While a "proper woman" (Kulasatrii;
Thai: กุลสตรี) must remain faithful to her husband, there were no equivalent rules in history mandating fidelity in the "virtuous man."
.^ No legal marriage licenses were ever applied for nor granted, and every single child born of Mormon "plural marriages" was illegitimate - i.e.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If serial polygamy (divorce and remarriage) is tolerated and legal, then there is absolutely no reason in the world why true polygamy should remain illegal (a Felony).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Groups that continue the practice in Utah and elsewhere have no association whatever with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ More specifically, the practice of polygyny or a man having multiple wives, compared to polyandry or a woman having multiple husbands.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ But remarriage and a man having children from a sequence of marriages brought about by the unfortunate death of his wife/wives is different than polygamy.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
[76] .^ Who will all those women marry?
^ We just don’t practice it in the traditional way where they are all married to each other at the same time while living.
^ Over 70% of all men and women will marry more than once.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
[77] .^ Rather, they only work to further degrade women and all of human society along with it.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And for women to be married on this basis without being legally acknowledged as wives can hardly have been reassuring.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ If Messianic polygamists did not arise, Messianic egalitarians might continue to keep quiet on their views of men and women being allowed to lead, and women being elevated in value.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
[78]
China
.^ (Note: there is only one sentence that satisfys the requirement of the laws of the land: "authority vested in me, I pronounce you ______, and ______, legally and lawfully husband and wife,..."- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece."- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One of the experiences could very well have been having a wife prior to Zipporah.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ Martin told me soon after Joseph, the prophet, left Kirtland, that two years before, he had told him that as his wife had left him he needed a woman as other men.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ However, most people identify the word polygamy to mean men taking more than one wife, and are not familiar with the word polygyny, i will use the word polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
Polygamy is a by-product of the tradition of emphasis on procreation and the continuity of the father's family name.
. Before the establishment of the
Republic of China, it was lawful to have a wife and multiple concubines within
Chinese marriage.
^ Therefore, if a man marry him a wife in the world, and he marry her not by me nor by my word, and he covenant with her so long as he is in the world and she with him, their covenant and marriage are not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of the world; therefore, they are not bound by any law when they are out of the world.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Once in Utah, Young attempted to establish the "Territory of Deseret," and operate the area as a theocracy, under the "Law of the Lord," which included plural marriage and blood atonement.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Martin told me soon after Joseph, the prophet, left Kirtland, that two years before, he had told him that as his wife had left him he needed a woman as other men.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Allowing men to take more than one wife promotes morality.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So, a man could, even under Roman law, have more than one 'woman', but only one legal wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To take more than one spouse spiritually is between them and God.
.^ These are the men who are qualified to give as many wives protection as they can maintain.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Therefore those few men who proved themselves to be responsible and able to maintain their wives, Srila Prabhupad advised that these men should take as many wives as they can maintain.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Polygamy must be allowed for religious reasons.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Anyone who tries to find another explanation, or is confused because it was a part of the church, and therefore must have a reasonable/dotrinal basis, is just fooling herself.
^ If society allowed men to take more than one wife, far fewer men would find any reason to 'cheat'.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He requested to be allowed to take the girl as his second wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Allowing men to take more than one wife promotes morality.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the same talk he mentioned that the higher classes of men, the priest and government men, mostly they would take more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ More specifically, the practice of polygyny or a man having multiple wives, compared to polyandry or a woman having multiple husbands.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ The man would be seen as some sort of sexual pervert, a 'dirty-old-man', practically a child-molester.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Wherever the emphasis of marriage is placed on procreation or the sexual satisfaction of the man, more than likely polygyny will flourish ( ABD ).- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
.^ Polygamy_1 POLY-GAMY (Poly = more than one - gamy = spouse) .- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To take more than one spouse spiritually is between them and God.
^ Rather, prior to the advent of Christ Roman law forbid a man to take more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
Polygamy are seen and tolerated in south west China among Chinese minorities such as Tibetans etc.
Hong Kong
In
Hong Kong, polygamy was banned in October 1971.
[79] Some Hong Kong businessmen have concubines across the border in mainland China, but concubines do not have the legal or social status of wives and so this should not strictly be called "polygamy". Kevin Murphy of
The International Herald Tribune[80] reports the cross-border polygyny phenomenon in Hong Kong in 1995.
[81].^ Paul, the good Hillelite Rabbi, is clear to say let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband (RSV), referring to tēn heautou gunaika ( thn eautou gunaika ) in the singular.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ But they think it is a good thing if a man is already married, as they can see how he treats and loves his wife, before deciding if they want to be married to him.
^ Now, where a man in this church says, I dont want but one wife, I will live my religion with one.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
[citation needed]
Current proponents and opponents
Secular
.^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ So anyone who argues that "The Mormons stopped practicing polygamy when it was made illegal" are either misinformed or misrepresenting the truth.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ So anyone who argues that "The Mormons stopped practicing polygamy when it was made illegal" are either misinformed or lying.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ If polygamy was legalized I’d tell my daughter to plan on a lifetime of staying single, because risking being dependent on a man would be too dangerous.- Donklephant » Blog Archive » The Case Against Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC donklephant.com [Source type: Original source]
^ No one would tell you off for being in an open marriage or relationship, so why the "butterfly collector" syndrome?- Brian Whitaker: Is there a serious problem with polygamy in the UK, or is the Baroness's attack simply point-scoring? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
^ At one point he said that if men today do not accept at least 12 wives they will all go to hell (in reference to so many women who were being exploited by degraded men.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ These couples may be parents of young men and young women, who they already have believed will have difficulty finding an acceptable Messianic spouse.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ "It is advised that all women get themselves married, and if there is any man who is better able to maintain wife and family, he is advised to marry as many women as he can maintain..."- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ As a mathematically-inclined lawyer, I find baffling the erroneous claims above that marriage means more to women than to men, or that men trade in their spouses for younger ones.- The Becker-Posner Blog: Is There a Case for Legalizing Polygamy? BECKER 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ There are several biblical characters, even in the OT, who remained married to single women, when the West as we know it now did not exist.- One Ghana, One Voice: Polygamy - Kathy FitzGerald 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC oneghanaonevoice.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I wish my women, and brother Kimballs and brother Grants to leave, and every woman in this Territory, or else say in their hearts that they will embrace the Gospel the whole of it....- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Women were indeed exploited in many monogamous and polygynist traditional societies, when they were frequently forced to marry men that they did not want to.- The Becker-Posner Blog: Is There a Case for Legalizing Polygamy? BECKER 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.becker-posner-blog.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Therefore, I am totally in favor of seeing polygamy made legal.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In arguing against polygamy, Dale makes no effort to show the list of benefits he claims for neutered marriage won't apply.- The Volokh Conspiracy - The Traditionalist Case – The Polygamy Slippery-Slope Argument: 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC volokh.com [Source type: Original source]
^ John C. Bennett and Oliver Olney had published about polygamy, and Godfrey argues that "such extensive publicity appears to have aroused the public against Mormonism and its marriage system."- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
This same result of polygamy is used to justify it as a way to improve the genetic characteristics in a population.
.^ Yet, a society that accepts that men can marry more than one wife, then nearly all, if not all, of the women who want a first-class husband will get one.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ As we consider the idea of polygyny, we tend to think about the numbers game: Aren’t the numbers of women and men about equal?
^ Over 70% of all men and women will marry more than once.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Polygamy would not increase the population.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ As far as polygamy increasing the population, the math just doesn't add up.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Some people argue or think that polygamy increases the population.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I dont think religions should be allowed to tell us what our laws ought to be regarding marriage.
^ The government doesnt support gay marriage either, but we still have the right to have a partner regardless of what the legal system says.
^ What I do have a definite problem with is this shadow belief that some Mormons have that polygamy is the ultimate way of life and the way that God intends for us to live.
.^ If you believe plural marriage (being the relationship entered into by CONSENTING ADULTS) is hurting people and should be outlawed, then you would also have to believe that gay and lesbian relationships between consenting adults should also be outlawed.
In Uruguay the "Colorado Party" supports polygamy.[citation needed]
.^ All the married Mormons who emigrated to Utah in 1847 had been married under the civil laws of their respective states; each one of those states had laws against bigamy, thus making monogamy the "common law."- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
[82]
.^ Those who practice polygamy are not Mormons.
^ For those of you who do not think that polygamy was/is an actual inspired or doctrine, or feel that the early church’s practice of that doctrine was misguided (i.e.
^ Therefore, I request all who read this to take it on yourself to contact your Congressmen and demand the law be changed to legally allow polygamy.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ John C. Bennett and Oliver Olney had published about polygamy, and Godfrey argues that "such extensive publicity appears to have aroused the public against Mormonism and its marriage system."- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ We haven't got a good argument to put behind our current prohibitions against polygamy.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ I do not "Hate" those people who practice polygamy anymore that I hate a family member or neighbor who's made a mistake or chosen to do something I don't understand.
^ Any so-called members of the church who practice polygamy is excommunicated.
^ So anyone who argues that "The Mormons stopped practicing polygamy when it was made illegal" are either misinformed or misrepresenting the truth.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Well I would like to say one thing about your show on polygamy.
^ They are pretty well satisfied that this doctrine of plural marriage is true, and that it was revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith, but they would like an excuse for disavowing and rejecting it.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ One is tempted to ask what evidence of no sexual relations would look like.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "The only thing left to do is to go after money, and this case has never been about that."
.^ The fact that this statement was made by a group of lawyers that have become US Supreme Court Justices shows their total and complete ignorance of what is or is not religion.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There seems to have been little criticism of such marriages among those Latter-day Saints who knew about them.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ For those who are religious, it is their religious scripture that determines their social moral standards, not lawyers who have become Supreme Court Justices, and not lawyers who have become Congressional Legislators.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ It discourages divorce and prostitution, it protects and promotes the family tradition and ultimately by allowing it it will assist society to solve all of the social problems that face it today.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Despite so-called freedom of religious rights in America, and despite polygamy being accepted by many leading scriptures of the world, in the US all states have laws prohibiting it.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But, all of these standards, taken together, form the basis of a social science that is the basis of religion itself.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
A hard-won lesson of Western history is that genuine democratic self-rule begins at the hearth of the monogamous family."
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Religious
The
Roman Catholic Church clearly condemns polygamy; the
Catechism of the Catholic Church lists it in paragraph 2387 under the head "Other offenses against the dignity of marriage" and states that it "is not in accord with the moral law." Also in paragraph 1645 under the head "The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love" states "The unity of marriage, distinctly recognized by our Lord, is made clear in the equal personal dignity which must be accorded to man and wife in mutual and unreserved affection. Polygamy is contrary to conjugal love which is undivided and exclusive."
Currently the vast majority of Protestant congregations take the Catholic view on polygamy.[citation needed]
.^ Therefore the idea that polygamy is not Christian or not allowed or is immoral according to the teachings of the Bible have no basis at all.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But the most compelling biblical argument against polygamy is found in the New Testament portrait of marriage.- The Watchman Expositor: The Pain of Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC watchman.org [Source type: Original source]
^ I have yet to come across any compelling argument against polygamy, even though I can't imagine ever wanting to engage in it myself.- Daylight Atheism > Little-Known Bible Verses XI: Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.daylightatheism.org [Source type: Original source]
Paul of Tarsus writes "submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience" (Romans 13:5), for "the authorities that exist have been established by God." (Romans 13:1)
St Peter concurs when he says to "submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right."
.^ In addition, as long as the Mormons were the effective law enforcement, the law could not be enforced.- Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC tungate.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Is the Law more merciful than Grace?
^ Women who entered monogamous marriages would now be threatened by the possibility of being forced into accepting polygamous marriage-due to dependent children, or illness or age.- Donklephant » Blog Archive » The Case Against Polygamy 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC donklephant.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ Ever wonder what today's Mormon Church would be like if Joseph Smith had never practiced polygamy?- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Those women who are on the show are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormons.
^ Polygamy is wrong, and it is against the law.
.^ Fundamentalist Mormons broke with the mainstream church when it renounced polygamy in 1890.
^ The LDS church does not practice polygamy and.
^ Again, the LDS church does NOT practice polygamy.
.^ Any Church member adopting the practice today is excommunicated.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Any so-called members of the church who practice polygamy is excommunicated.
^ And has since then been banned and any member found to be in a polygamous relationship is excommunicated from the church.
.^ And the LDS church's current edition of the Doctrine and Covenants still contains the "revelation on celestial marriage", which sanctions plural marriage.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ This world is just out of whack, why would we not expect polygamy in olden days and the modern church not to be completely crazy too?
^ Therefore those few men who proved themselves to be responsible and able to maintain their wives, Srila Prabhupad advised that these men should take as many wives as they can maintain.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ In his final chapter, G. D. Smith attempts to tie Latter-day Saint plural marriage to the broader history of polygamy, with a special emphasis on the Münster Anabaptists.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ What is not explained or acknowledged is that Woodruff's paramount concern was not to hide history or deny plural marriage (the Manifesto was three years in the future: polygamy was hardly a secret).- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Polygamy in fiction and popular culture
.^ How can you be one like we are commanded everywhere with our spouses with one man having so many other wives.
^ Bigamy consists in the having of two wives or two husbands at one and the same time, knowing that the former husband or wife is still alive.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
Monogamy is the same." is popularly misattributed to
Oscar Wilde.
A popular joke with
Mark Twain has Twain asked to cite a Scripture reference that forbids polygamy, and he responds with, "No man can serve two masters."
Science fiction, utopias, dystopias
.^ Even though G*d ended the practice, in a world most hostile to it, He still holds it a true principle and will doubtless restore the practice when He views the time as right.
^ Most people in the world who support polygamy do so for 'religious' reasons.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Rough Stone Rolling; In Sacred Lonliness; By the Hand of Mormon; Mormon Polygamy; Under the Banner of Heaven; Early Mormonism and the Magic World View; some Dialogue articles.
These worlds tend to be
utopian or
dystopian in nature.
.^ Make no mistake about it, while polygamy is recorded to have been practiced in Scripture it by no means is endorsed by Scripture!- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ To me, it means early LDS polygamy was very different from the polygamy practiced by the FLDS Church.
^ So why did the founding prophet of the LDS church contradict and violate his own "revelations", as well as the laws of the land, by secretly teaching and practicing polygamy?- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ A man who is trained to be life-long responsible for his wife (wives) and children.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I think that people should be able to have multiple wives, as long as all parties are happy with the situation.
^ Of course, it’s the 1840s and wives die all the time, and a man needs a new wife.
Cultures described within the
Dune novel series have intentional similarities to Islamic, Arab, and other cultures – i.e. desert cultures. Similarly, the
Aiel society in
Robert Jordan's
The Wheel of Time series practice a form of polygamy, in which multiple women may marry the same man; in that fictional culture, women are the ones who propose marriage.
.^ So, even a married man, he can keep other girl friends, that is not illegal.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ JS allowed Zina (as with all his other wives who were married to other men) to continue to live and cohabit with her first husband, Henry.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We just don’t practice it in the traditional way where they are all married to each other at the same time while living.
.^ Therefore, the best marriages are described as those in which the girl is married before puberty and is then trained to match her husband's personality.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Therefore, the best marriages are described as those in which the girl is married before puberty and is then trained to match her husband's personality.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ As we consider the idea of polygyny, we tend to think about the numbers game: Aren’t the numbers of women and men about equal?
^ It's apologetics at its worst because it has no basis in the Lord's revelations, which clearly state that the primary reason for polygamy is providing certain men sexual acccess to women.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ If the man has had two wives, with one wife dying and him marrying a second time, he cannot disregard children born from his first marriage.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Brigham worried out loud that he might marry a second wife but then apostatize, leaving his plural family "worse off."- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ But if the first are married for eternity, then marrying the man to a second wife would be eternal polygamy.
Their surname then becomes Alexander-Harrington.
.^ One of his sisters were married at 9.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ There is no need for women having more than one husband, there is a need in society for religious men to give shelter to more than one woman.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ To uphold and promote the standard that men should only marry chaste virgin girls is for the ultimate upliftment and benefit of all of society.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Made up of six women and two men, the jury returned at 9:15 p.m., with one female juror who walked in sobbing audibly and wiping her eyes.
^ Indeed, in Genesis 2:21-24 marriage is most definitely not defined as being between two people of the same gender joined in a homosexual relationship.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ If men become cultured to only marry chaste virgins this encourages chastity and purity in society. Another reason is that women are to adjust their personality to become compatible with the husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
In the
Star Trek television series
Enterprise, the ship's physician,
Dr. Phlox (who is a Denobulan) has three wives, each of whom has three husbands of her own (including him).
.^ Even while Elkanah is not depicted as an evil man, polygamy forced him to favor one wife over another, and his two wives were not friendly toward one another.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ At all events, she boasted here in Salt Lake of having been one of Joseph's wives."- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ If his students did this, he said he had no objection even if they took 1,000's of wives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ U.S.: State whether or not it would be contrary to the law of the church, for any member of the church to enter into or contract a plural marriage.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ We do not believe that the principle of plural marriage should be entered into or considered for purposes of fleshly gratification.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ The practice was recinded over 100 years ago and no Mormon has entered into a plural marriage since that time and remained a member of the church.
)
.^ Allowing men to take more than one wife promotes morality.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He felt that this would be too difficult to do if he took more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ But i am only referring to men taking more than one wife, not women taking more than one husband.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Not like today where young girls are handed condoms in the public schools and taught how she must make sure her boy friends wear them.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Moses makes no impression on me, and you will not be offended when I say that I rate you higher as a legislator than I do Moses.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The analogy is like this: A boy and girl are alone on a date, and they decide to light the fuse of a stick of dynamite and play with it for a while.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Timothy 2:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife , vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 1 Tim.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Some have argued that congregational leaders who are monogamous is not what is in view here, but instead that such individuals must be the husband of at least one wife.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Joseph Smiths attempt at plural marriage with Orson Pratts wife: Sister Pratt, the Lord has given you to me as one of my spiritual wives.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ Thus now Henry is married to Zina for "time" as also is Brigham Young but at least Henry is still being allowed to live with Zina.- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
Prehistoric and historic fiction
.^ They marry to have a family and care for a wife, but, lack any real spiritual qualities that would make them highly qualified to be a guide for any more than one wife.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Technically speaking, the word polygamy means either spouse, man or woman, taking more than one spouse.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ She got divorced because she hated the idea of sharing her husband with more than one woman, but she didn’t accept modern prophets who disavowed polygamy.
.^ I have a few distant modern connections–HS friend who married a young man who was raised in a polygamous family.
^ The key is not just marriage to any man, but to be 'properly' protected means they must marry a man who is properly trained to be a good husband and father.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The man, he also remarries, and often he will remarry a women who herself was previously married who may have her own 2 children from another man.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
Also of note was Vincavec, the headman of the Mammoth Camp who wished to mate with the protagonist
Ayla and was willing to take her Promised, Ranec, implying a bisexual relationship as well.
Contemporary setting
.^ Pratt himself had married two sisters.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ G. D. Smith twice mentions the Lawrence sisters, two of Joseph's plural wives who also boarded with him and for whom he was responsible following their father's death.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ These authors again note the contribution of polygamy that G. D. Smith insists Mormon histories ignore.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ What's harder to grasp is the total domination that one man, Warren Jeffs, has over the 10,000 people who live here.
^ And, if we see that the purpose of marriage is to have children, then it makes no sense, as it only takes one man to get one woman pregnant.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I'd like to see them gain the sort of skills that can help them succeed with jobs, education and in their personal lives."
.^ I reason for this opinion is not only from what these families demonstrated on your show but also the dacts about the man to woman ratio in thie world.
^ Shunned by their families and forbidden to return home, the "Lost Boys," as they are known, are left to fumble darkly through a world they can't comprehend.
^ In today's world there is no set role, no set duty, and no peace, no harmony, no family, no real home.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
It was later adapted into a film. Both explore issues of homosexuality and families.
.^ HBO BIG LOVE (18 articles) .- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The portrayal of polygamy by HBOs “Big Love” family is much closer to an “ideal” than anything that went on in the 1840s -> 1900s.
^ And we started a bit of a “Big Love” ish discussion about the actual polygamists that we know, or are related to, or went to school with.
.^ A man who is trained to be life-long responsible for his wife (wives) and children.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ "Most men who entered polygamy" had only two wives, and a large majority (> 80%) had no more than three.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ There are many splinter groups who are affiliate themselves with some of the teachings of the LDS church who do practice polygamy which, in my opinion causes the confusion.
.^ Religious polygamy is illegal, irreligious polygamy is legal.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And that is why the laws that prohibit polygamy are irreligious, as the Vedas provide a religious system of marriage that is not allowed to be legally practice under today's laws.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One thing Big Love has in common with early mormon polygamy is the double life the practitioners lead.
.^ Even while Elkanah is not depicted as an evil man, polygamy forced him to favor one wife over another, and his two wives were not friendly toward one another.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ Husbands and wives will be equal partners in marriage who share responsibility with one another, and that equality and respect will be manifested in how Jewish and non-Jewish Believers will respect and honor one another as fellow members of the Body of Messiah.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
^ One Church President married a plural wife, and three Counselors in the First Presidency performed marriages for men who had living wives already.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
.^ I am speaking of real polygamy in which each wife is aware of the other wives (and preferably they all live together).- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Woman Cs first 2 children live in the same house as their 2-half siblings from their mother and man A. Their 3 half-siblings from their real father, man C, are not really part of their lives.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
^ One way of looking at this is as a prohibition to a man to marry his wifes sister while the wife is still alive, as the two wives would become rivals and cause chaos in the house.- TNN Online: Two-House News Network - Torah In Perspective - Is Polygamy for Today? 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.tnnonline.net [Source type: Original source]
Henrickson effectively balances his work, the continuing demands of his wives, and his wives' relatives.
.^ Young often joked about his wives.- http://www.ils.unc.edu/%7Eunsworth/mormon/polygamy.html 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.ils.unc.edu [Source type: Original source]
^ Ever wonder what today's Mormon Church would be like if Joseph Smith had never practiced polygamy?- The Mormon Curtain - MORMON POLYGAMY 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.mormoncurtain.com [Source type: Original source]
^ She claimed that Brigham Young told Orson that Marinda was only to be his wife for time and Joseph's for eternity—but this is false, since she was sealed to Orson in early 1846.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
See also
References
- ^ Polygamy at socialsciencedictionary.org
- ^ a b Ethnographic Atlas Codebook derived from George P. Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas recording the marital composition of 1231 societies from 1960–1980
- ^ (Linda Stone, Kinship and Gender, 2006, Westview, 3rd ed, ch 6) The Center for Research on Tibet Papers on Tibetan Marriage and Polyandry. Accessed: October 1, 2006
- ^ Goldstein, Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited, Ethnology. 17(3): 325–327, 1978, from The Center for Research on Tibet. Accessed: October 1, 2007
- ^ George Monger (2004). Marriage customs of the world: from henna to honeymoons. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. pp. 31. ISBN 1-57607-987-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=o8JlWxBYs40C&pg=PA31&dq=Bigamy+vs.+Polygamy&lr=&ei=uTEHSqv_Ho_-lQSKmdGhBA#PPA31,M1. : Bigamy has come to mean the state of being married to two partners at the same time, generally with both partners unaware of the existence of the other.
- ^ "Sex Offenses: Consensual - Bigamy". Law Library - American Law and Legal Information. http://law.jrank.org/pages/2102/Sex-Offenses-Consensual-Bigamy.html. Retrieved 2009-05-10. : The Model Penal Code actually proposes that states consider ordinary bigamy a misdemeanor, but a felony if it is done "in purported exercise of the right of plural marriage," pointedly singling out those few remaining Mormons who believe in polygamy, as well as those from other cultures who accept polygamy. Those from cultures accepting polygamy would receive more severe treatment than one who simply commits a fraud on a spouse who is unaware of a prior marriage. No state actually adopted the misdemeanor/felony distinction proposed in the Model Penal Code, but the proposal indicates one of the factors animating the criminal law in this area. The harm, then, is presumably moral offense to nonparties.
- ^ Feinberg, Joel (1986), Harm to Self (Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol 3), Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 266, 402, ISBN 978-0195059236, http://books.google.com/books?id=MzHMuCE2JDAC&pg=PA266&dq=Harm+to+Self,+Bigamy,+polygamy&ei=Uz8HSomRMYvOkwT9tMigBA#PPA266,M1 : page 266: Strangely enough the Model Penal Code not only makes bigamy a crime whether or not deception is involved, it actually makes the more open variety in which both spouses voluntarily participate without deception (which it calls "polygamy") the more serious crime: "A person is guilty of polygamy, a felony of the third degree, if he marries or cohabits with more than one spouse at a time in purported exercise of the right of plural marriage." The wife (or wives) too would be guilty of the same serious crime. The Code's distinction between the misdemeanor of bigamy and the felony it calls polygamy seems to imply the principle that a trivial crime becomes a serious one when it is openly committed or publicly flaunted by the perpetrators in what they claim to be an exercise of their rights. An obvious target of the proposed polygamy stature are Mormons and others who claim a religious right to multiple spouses. It is difficult to see why the state in normal times should be so frightened of such groups. To be sure the voluntariness of the consent of the added spouses might be suspect, but that would be a ground for nullifying their matrimonial contracts rather than punishing the contractors.
- ^ Diouf, Nafi (May 2, 2004). "Polygamy hangs on in Africa". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20040502/ai_n10968614.
- ^ a b http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/dewaraja/wheel280.html
- ^ The Ethics of Buddhism, Shundō Tachibana, Routledge, 1992, ISBN 070070230X, 9780700702305
- ^ An introduction to Buddhist ethics: foundations, values, and issues, Brian Peter Harvey, Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0521556406, ISBN 9780521556408
- ^ http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/approaching_buddhism/world_today/issues_buddhist_sexual_ethics.html
- ^ Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitze, Published by Berg Publishers, 2008, ISBN 1845202201, ISBN 9781845202200 (as found at Google books)
- ^ http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_polygamy.asp
- ^ http://www.sudhirlaw.com/HMA55.htm
- ^ Marriages-Divorces section at general information website on Indian laws by Sudhir Shah and Associates
- ^ http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/770990/jewish/Why-does-Torah-law-allow-polygamy.htm
- ^ Deuteronomy 21:15–17 from mechon-mamre.org
- ^ Judaica Press Complete Tanach, Devarim - Chapter 17 from Chabad.org
- ^ Women, similar to wives from vadimcherny.org
- ^ "The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory", David Charles Kraemer, p21, Oxford University Press US, 1989, ISBN 0195054679
- ^ Judaism and Polygamy: "Originally, Gershom's ban was limited in time to the year 1260," and a man "could marry more than one wife if he obtained the special permission of 100 rabbis in 3 countries." From faqs.org
- ^ Israel 2008: State of Polygamy
- ^ Victims of polygamy
- ^ Polygamy's Practice Stirs Debate in Israel
- ^ Why not Mr. and Mrs. - & Mrs... & Mrs...?
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- ^ Joseph Alfred X. Michiels, Secret History of the Austrian Government and of its Systematic Persecutions of Protestants (London: Chapman and Hall, 1859) p. 85 (copy at Google Books), the author stating that he is quoting from a copy of the legislation.
- ^ William Walker Rockwell, Die Doppelehe des Landgrafen Philipp von Hessen (Marburg, 1904), p. 280, n. 2 (copy at Google Books), which reports the number of wives allowed was two.
- ^ Leonhard Theobald, “Der angebliche Bigamiebeschluß des fränkischen Kreistages” [“The So-called Bigamy Decision of the Franconian Kreistag”], Beitrage zur Bayerischen kirchengeschichte [Contributions to Bavarian Church History] 23 (1916 – bound volume dated 1917) Erlangen: 199–200 (Theobald reporting that the Franconian Kreistag did not hold session between 1645 and 1664, and that there is no record of such a law in the extant archives of Nürnberg, Ansbach, or Bamberg, Theobald believing that the editors of the Fränkisches Archiv must have misunderstood a draft of some other legislation from 1650).
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- ^ Doctrine and Covenants 132 as found at lds.org
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- ^ Greiner & Sherman, Revised Laws of Illinois, 1833, pp. 198–199
- ^ Todd Compton, "A Trajectory of Plurality: An Overview of Joseph Smith's Thirty-three Plural Wives", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 1–38.
- ^ Smith, George D (Spring 1994), "Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27 (1), http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fdialogue&CISOPTR=15882&REC=3&CISOBOX=42, retrieved 2007-05-12
- ^ Times and Seasons, vol. 5, p. 423, February 1, 1844
- ^ Lifting the Veil of Polygamy (2007, Main Street Church) A documentary concerning the history of Mormon polygamy and its modern manifestations.
- ^ Journal of Discourses 11:128 Brigham Young - June 18, 1865 - "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout Christendom, and which had been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious."
- ^ GOP Convention of 1856 in Philadelphia from the Independence Hall Association website
- ^ Free Exercise Clause - First Amendment
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- ^ "The Primer" - Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities. A joint report from the offices of the Attorneys General of Arizona and Utah. (2006)
- ^ "An 1886 Revelation to John Taylor"
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- ^ Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has urged Sudanese men to take more than one wife to increase the population
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- ^ http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/malaysia.htm
- ^ 1,000 men living legally with multiple wives despite fears over exploitation Times online
- ^ Polygamy in Africa - Polygamy in Africa
- ^ See Korotayev, Andrey (2004). World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-cultural Perspective (First Edition ed.). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-6310-0. .
- ^ South Africa Polygamy debate
- ^ [5] Hundreds arrive in village for Zuma's fifth wedding - ABC News Online
- ^ [6] South African President set to marry fifth wife - ABC News Online
- ^ Polygamy becomes hot election issue in South Africa at digitaljournal.com
- ^ Omar Hassan al-Bashir has urged Sudanese men to take more than one wife to increase the population
- ^ The Legacy Lingers On: Korean Confucianism and the Erosion of Women’s Rights by Hildi Kang, Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley]
- ^ Puniyani, Ram (2003). Communal Politics: Facts Versus Myths . SAGE.
- ^ ?? — article in Chinese
- ^ Interpersonal Heterosexual Behaviors of Thai People, Extramarital Sex
- ^ The rights of husband and wife, Family Law in Thailand
- ^ A research on Thai view of sexuality and sexual behavior funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted jointly by the Institute of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University and Mahidol University, Bangkok, the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan and the Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
- ^ Hong Kong, article by Man-Lun Ng, M.D.; part of "The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality" Volume I – IV 1997–2001, Edited by Robert T. Francoeur
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- ^ "Polygamy vs. Democracy" The Weekly Standard, June 5, 2006
- ^ "Law of the Land" page at BiblicalPolygamy.com
- ^ http://scriptures.lds.org/en/dc/132/1,38-39,55#1 Doctrine and Covenants 132:55
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- Campbell, James (1869). The History and Philosophy of Marriage. First published in Boston.
- Chapman, Samuel A. (2001). .^ It's a neglect of basic human rights that we should rightfully be shocked to find in the US. It is the lack of opportunity to decline participation that makes polygamy the hideous thing it is.
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^ Despite so-called freedom of religious rights in America, and despite polygamy being accepted by many leading scriptures of the world, in the US all states have laws prohibiting it.- Polygamy_1 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC www.16108.com [Source type: Original source]
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- Hillman, Eugene (1975). .^ The New and Everlasting Covenant, known as Celestial Marriage- Plurality of Wives (Polygamy)-cannot commit adultery, men can become gods has never ceased being performed by The Mormon Church.
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^ Above all else, one's attitude toward Joseph, the church, and plural marriage will influence how such contradictory and biased testimony is interpreted.- George D. Smith's Nauvoo Polygamy - Gregory L. Smith - FARMS Review - Volume 20 - Issue 2 14 January 2010 6:06 UTC mi.byu.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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- Korotayev, Andrey (2004). .^ When this system was first introduced among this people, it was one of the greatest crosses that ever was taken up by any set of men since the world stood.
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- Van Wagoner, Richard S. (1992).^ Read even more historical references here: http://www.mormons.org.uk/cpmr.htm 5.
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