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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Polygamy: Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, was the first Mormon prophet
to practice polygamy.
http://www.mormonhandbook.com/home/polygamy.html
Summary of Events
•From 1830 to 1876, LDS scripture was consistent in prohibited
polygamy: Book of Mormon: Jacob, chapter 2; Doctrine and Covenants, Section
101 (removed in 1876).
•During this time the church publicly taught against polygamy and
denied practicing it, while church authorities were privately taking plural
wives.
•In 1852 Brigham Young, the second Mormon prophet, publicly admitted
the practice of polygamy.
•In 1876, Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants, which allows
polygamy, was added to the Doctrine and Covenants. Section 101 which
condemns it was removed. Section 132 remains part of the LDS canon today.
•Under pressure from the federal government to end polygamy, which
passed law to disincorporate the church and seize its assets, Wilford
Woodruff, the fourth Mormon prophet, announced he had received a "revelation
" to officially end the practice. This announcement is knows as the 1890
Manifesto or Official Declaration—1.
•14 years later, congressional hearings uncover church authorities
still taking plural wives in secret, in disregard to the 1890 revelation. In
response, Joseph F. Smith, the sixth Mormon prophet, issued what is known
as the "Second Manifesto" condemning polygamy.
•As late as 1943 it was uncovered that Mormon apostle Richard Lyman
was secretly practicing polygamy. |
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