Smith first dictated the revelation about plural marriage on July 12, 1843, though he always denied it outside the Mormon community, and the polygamy doctrine ...

The practice of polygamy is strictly prohibited in the Church, as it has been for over 120 years. In 1831, Church founder Joseph Smith made a prayerful inquiry.

16 нояб. 2009 г. · The Mormon Church officially renounces polygamy. On September 25, 1890, faced with the imminent destruction of their church and way of life ...

Polygamy was not openly practiced in the Mormon Church until 1852 when Orson Pratt, an apostle, made a public speech defending it as a tenet of the church.

One such act was the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act, which was signed into law on July 8, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln.

Beginning in 1862, the U.S. government passed a series of laws designed to force Latter-day Saints to relinquish plural marriage. In the face of these measures ...

27 мар. 2021 г. · Mormons did make polygamy a forbidden practice within the church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This transition occurred gradually, ...

The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862 prohibited polygamy in the territories. It also limited the value of the land that the LDS church could own, among other ...

17 авг. 2017 г. · The LDS Church publicly renounced the practice of polygamy in 1890, but it has never renounced polygamy as doctrine, as evidenced in LDS ...