Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph Smith's own household, caused a schism ...

This, in large part, has made it so that the gene pool is actually very small — especially in a place like Utah, where Mormons fled and went to Utah to be able to practice polygamy in peace.” ...

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.

Such was the temper of the Mormon Bismarck. But the main cohesive force is polygamy. Here is once more the philosophy of Benjamin Franklin's " We must all hang together, or we shall all hang ...

"Mormon Land" podcast on Exponent II founders Claudia Bushman and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and the evolution of Latter-day ...

A raid this past April by state authorities on a fundamentalist Mormon compound in Texas returned the subject of polygamy to the headlines (though the sect involved broke from the LDS Church more ...

Historically, "for about 50 years after the Mormon pioneers came to Salt Lake in about 1847, they practiced polygamy — it was part of the religion, it was just a thing that was done. It wasn't ...