Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...

Polygamy is a fixed family structure in which more than two people are married. In Utah, it's overwhelmingly linked to Mormon sects that still practice plural marriage, which the Church of Jesus ...

To a Mormon those not of their faith are regarded as “Gentiles.” Gentiles in Utah often say ... divine authority rather than because of polygamy. Polygamy was dropped in the ’90’s ...

where Mormons fled and went to Utah to be able to practice polygamy in peace.” Grenfell delved further, saying that those church members were procreating only with other Mormons “for a very ...

Mormons challenged anti-polygamy statutes ... pardoned polygamists, and admitted Utah to the Union in 1896. The Manifesto, though never described as a revelation, has remained the official ...

There is a law in Utah ... the Mormons were highly incensed and insulted by his denial of the power of the Legislature to make such request, and finally by his pointing to polygamy as the main ...

SALT LAKE, Utah, April 6. -- Just before the large congregation attending the final session of the semi-annual conference of the Mormons was dismissed this afternoon. President Joseph F.

The church disavowed polygamy in 1890 as a condition of Utah statehood, and today members of the faith found to be practicing plural marriage are excommunicated. Fundamentalist Mormons ...

In 1956 Utah authorities seized seven children of ... So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

When a splinter group of Mormon fundamentalists founded the town ... a place where its followers could live communally and ...

"Let Utah alone," says B. H. Roberts. "Polygamy will die of itself," says the Mormon church. Polygamy, I reply, will die when we kill it, and not sooner. What matter if new polygamous marriages ...