Official Declarations 1 & 2: ”Long Promised Day” (polygamy and race & the priesthood)
Unshaken Saints
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The Politics of American Religious Identity by Katheline Flake
Once we stop plural marriage, then it's like, ok, the biggest thing that was keeping you from statehood is now behind you. And so find you can be a state and you can elect your own representatives. They elect a b h roberts, who was a polygamist. But later, read smoot, who happened to be an apostle, was elected to be the senator from utah imns. That should actually tell you something that if there's even apostles that aren't living plural marriage, it's not required for everyone. The days of the exception have completely ended. And we are back to the days of the which is monogamy. nowhere in the church will
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