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If a man who practiced polygamy in his maternal country wishes to sponsor more than one wife, he must divorce the wife in the U.S first. [54] Any woman who succeeds in avoiding the bar on polygamy is denied basic legal rights regarding marriage, divorce, and financial support.
As of 1998, however, women who have died may be sealed to more than one man. In 1998, the LDS Church created a new policy that a woman may also be sealed to more than one man. A woman, however, may not be sealed to more than one man while she is alive. She may only be sealed to subsequent partners after both she and her husband(s) have died. [92]
(Reuters) - The Mormon church has admitted that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having maintained for ...
From 1852 until 1890, the LDS Church openly authorized polygamous marriages between one man and multiple wives, though polygamous families continued cohabitating into the 1940s and 1950s. [3] [4] Today, the church is opposed to such marriages and excommunicates members who participate in them or publicly teach that they are sanctioned by God ...
"Some are more Mormon than others, but in MomTok, I don't think we should be judging people whether they go to church every Sunday wearing their special underwear or reading their special book."
The practice primarily focuses on polygyny (one man having more than one wife) and not polyandry (one woman having more than one husband), as polyandry is implied to be unlawful by the Hebrew Bible's laws of adultery (e.g., Deuteronomy 22:22) and in the New Testament (e.g., Romans 7:3).
Instead of protesting, eight women members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wrote, edited and published "The Not-So-Secret Lives of REAL ‘Mormon' Wives" — in under two months ...
William Clayton listed her as one of Smith's wives whom he married in early May 1843. [52] Emily Dow Partridge: March 4, 1843: 19: Yes: Yes: Yes: Single: Daughter of Edward Partridge and sister of Eliza. After Smith's death, she married Brigham Young. William Clayton listed her as one of Smith's wives whom he married in early May 1843. [52 ...