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“The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha, and in the Church. Indeed, the excess in Utah has usually been larger than for the whole United State... there was no surplus of women.”

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Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are done away, and none are binding but the new covenants; now suppose Joseph should come and say he wanted your wife, what would you say to that? I would tell him to go to hell.' This was the spirit of many in the early days of this Church.”

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Author:Jedediah M. Grant

“The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.”

Light Church Aim Doctrine Secrecy Polygamy

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”

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Book:In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

Source: In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890

“I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.”

Thinking Law Church Practice Position Polygamy

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.”

Church Connections Polygamy

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.”

Church Enemy Divine Productions Polygamy Manifestos

Author:Charles W. Penrose

“The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God and his priesthood, I have not revealed, except to a few persons in this Church; and a few have received it from Joseph the prophet as well as myself. If a woman can find a man holding the keys of the priesthood with higher power and authority than her husband, and he is disposed to take her he can do so, otherwise she has got to remain where she is... there is no need for a bill of divorcement... To recapitulate.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.”

Order Church Husband Ancient Prophet My Sister Polygamy

Author:Benjamin F. Johnson

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

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Author:Abraham H. Cannon