Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.
This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.
It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.
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.
If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.
Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether it be polygamy, whether it be divorce, whether it be a marriage between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. The ideal would be a man and a woman under a covenant of God's blessing.
The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.
Polygamy was not a problem in the '80s. I do not remember one single woman in Baghdad who was the second or third wife. Now it's a very common story. Sometimes two wives living with a man in a 5 by 10 foot room. It's a very miserable economic situation.
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. . . .
I feel like saying 'Damn the Law. '
. . . the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
Being in a band is like polygamy without the sex.
