I have sitting in my home library many books of family history, including Heartbeats of Colonia Diaz by my wife's great aunt; Charles Edmund Richardson by the same author (Annie Richardson Johnson), both of which mention polygamous marriages taking place within the mainstream LDS church later than 1904. I also have a copy of Let the Eagle Scream about the efforts of Idaho Sen. Dubois to disenfranchise Mormons in Idaho, written by Deana Lowe Jensen, one of my dad's cousins. I grew up in a small town in Cache Valley; my next door neighbor was a child of polygamy, although he was born prior to or about the time of the Manifesto.

Somewhere in my collection I have a small tome called Little Known Schisms of the LDS Church (title probably not exact).

My great grandfather was 1st counselor in a bishopric in Idaho, a position he held for over 30 years. He ran the ward; the bishop was in hiding for 32 years as a polygamist.

Another great-great grandfather took a second wife (my great-great grandmother who was only 16 at the time); his first wife promptly divorced him as she wanted no part of it.

While it is part of our families'' histories, polygamy is not something of which we are proud, but we discuss openly and do not attempt to hide it. There is some really ugly stuff there. No horse thieves that I know of, however :smile:

another comment:

"Though members of the LDS Church do not practice polygamy today, the revelation still appears as Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants, which is considered canonized scripture." But there is this (from Wikipedia): "Although the LDS Church has abandoned the practice of plural marriage, it has not abandoned the underlying doctrines of polygamy. According to the church's sacred texts and pronouncements by its leaders and theologians, the church leaves open the possibility that it may one day re-institute the practice. It is still the practice of monogamous Mormon couples to be sealed to one another. However, in some circumstances, men and women may be sealed to multiple spouses. Most commonly, a man may be sealed to multiple wives: if his first wife dies, he may be sealed to a second wife. A deceased woman may also be sealed to multiple men, but only through vicarious sealing if they are also deceased."

Comments are Spicy:

You have proven the church only pretends to change when forced by outside influences: i.e., the federal government, IRS, church members grass roots efforts, etc. They've done this on many occasions.

That's what many of us have found out and our integrity wouldn't let us be part of the problem and had to leave.

The hypocrisy of the LDS church is on full display.

Until it is taken out of scripture and renounced, they still believe it.

Your 'history', however, is still the white-washed official version. Smith started his plural marriage practice about a decade before he received his "revelation". There are 22 wives sealed to Joseph Smith BEFORE his legal wife Emma, whom he eloped with because her father didn't like him, was sealed to him.

FLDS ARE LDS

They always have been. Mor(m)on leadership is Babylonian to it's core.

Did you know they teach that Satan(Lucifer) and Messiah(Jesus) are flesh and blood brothers?

SICK CULT.