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John Gill comments on 1 Corinthians 7 and states that polygamy is unlawful; and that one man is to have but one wife, and to keep to her; and that one woman is to have but one husband, and to keep to him and the wife only has a power over the husband's body, a right to it, and may claim the use of it: this power over each other's bodies is not ...
[a] However, the Torah contains a few specific regulations that apply to polygamy, [158] such as Exodus 21:10 ("If he take another wife for himself; her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish"), [159] Deuteronomy 21:15–17 (a man must award the inheritance due to a first-born son to the son who was actually born ...
Texas case G. Lee Cook, his wife D. Cook, and desired wife J. Bronson, of Salt Lake City, Utah, filed a lawsuit in hopes to abolish restrictive laws against polygamy. [49] Court cases against anti-polygamy laws argue that such laws are unconstitutional in regulating sexual intimacy, or religious freedom. [50] In the case of Bronson v.
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 ...
"Nobody can touch us," said Mugosi Isombe, a 50-year-old woman who, over her lifetime, was both the younger wife to an older woman and subsequently the older wife to a younger women.
In 1998, about 40,000 people living in Utah were part of a polygamist family, or about 1.4 percent of the population. [44] Polygamists have been difficult to prosecute because many only seek marriage licenses for their first marriage, while the other marriages are secretly conducted in private ceremonies. Thereafter, secondary wives attempt to ...
After her video went viral, many #MomTok followers were left with questions. "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" will try to answer them. Read on to find out more about the cast.Taylor Frankie Paul, 30
The Sister Wives stars’ 1993 spiritual wedding marked their beginning of their plural family. Kody was already legally married to Meri Brown when he welcomed Janelle into his life. He went on to ...