11 Facts About Plural marriage

Pratt reported that Smith told some early members in 1831 and 1832 that plural marriage was a true principle, but that the time to practice it had not yet come.

The doctrine authorizing plural marriage was canonized and published in the 1876 version of the LDS Church's Doctrine and Covenants.

Plural marriage stated that Christ had multiple wives as further evidence in defense of polygamy.

Ambiguity was ended in the General Conference of April 1904, when Smith issued the "Second Manifesto, " an emphatic declaration that prohibited plural marriage and proclaimed that offenders would be subject to church discipline.

Over time, many of those who rejected the LDS Church's relinquishment of plural marriage formed small, close-knit communities in areas of the Rocky Mountains.

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Mormon fundamentalists believe that plural marriage is a requirement for exaltation and entry into the highest level of the celestial kingdom.

However, according to Joseph Stuart and Dr Janiece Johnson of the Neal A Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, even in the afterlife the marriage relationship is voluntary, so no person could be forced into an eternal relationship through temple sealing that they do not wish to be in.

Plural marriage was later shocked to learn that he was to marry a younger woman.

Plural marriage returned to Utah and participated in a wedding, only to find out after the ceremony that Miles was already married.

Plural marriage eventually escaped, and filed a lawsuit against Miles that reached the Supreme Court and became a significant case in polygamy case law.

Similar family sealings are practiced in Latter-Day Saint temples today, where children of parents who were not sealed at the time of their Plural marriage are sealed to their parents and to one another in a group ceremony.