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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890 by between 20 and 30 percent of Latter-day Saint families.
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 ...
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 ...
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
Four wives bore him children, while the last two were marriages of protection to the widow of his brother Josiah Call, who was killed by Indians, and of his third wife's widowed sister. Call's plural wives included Mary Flint (1812-1901), Ann Mariah Bowen (1834-1924), Margaretta Unwin Clark (1828-1908), Emma Summers (1828-1912), Henrietta ...