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Which is essentially what's happened - we've stopped practicing that doctrine through cessation of teaching. Our early leaders weren't forced to divorce or "put aside" any of their wives, and although some of the men were fugitives for quite some time after, there was no requirement to dissolve any of the unions. Unless I'm wrong about that? I hadn't read anywhere where that was required.

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Farseer, there is so much information and because of the Manifesto itself not all the brothers followed it or they misintrepreted, including Church Presidents. Here is a little information about plural marriages after the Manifesto and whether it meant not new plural marriages or coexisting ones.

https://www.ldshistory.net/pc/postman.htm

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Ether 7: 1-2

1 And it came to pass that Orihah did execute judgment upon the land in righteousness all his days, whose days were exceedingly many.

2 And he begat sons and daughters; yea, he begat thirty and one, among whom were twenty and three sons.

I posted the above scripture to bring up a point. Some critics have proposed that Joseph Smith invented polygamy for his own desires and that it was not part of the Book of Mormon doctrine. They quote Jacob where he says each man should have but one wife. Well, the above scripture seems to indicate polygamy was practiced among the Jaredites and it was not considered wicked because it says Orihah was righeous all his days. Now it does not specifically say he had more than one wife but if he begat 31 children, one would have to conclude he indeed had more than one wife.

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Here is a point of view on this subject. It is reportedly published in the St. George Spectrum on March 3, 2005. You can read it all here (you may have to join the e-group to read it).

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The argument is very one sided and could be used conversely to show the same for current pluralist relationships. One could also easily say that if you cannot even handle one spouse how could you handle three? By the way, can you verify the St. George Spectrum is either biased / neutral to this topic and why they chose to publish it?

On another note, let us say Plural marriage were still in practise by the Church - I wonder what would entitle to man to take on more wives? Could you imagine... may a special Plural Marriage interview / recommend? Would it be something only in practise by the 'higher-ups'?

On another point, is Plural Marriage being currently practised on the other side to those who await the resurrection? Only to those who are sealed such in the temple.

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As far as I can tell, the Spectrum is simply a normal, small-town newspaper. It appears that they only put some of their newspaper articles online, and they have a pay-as-you-go archive retrieval system online. I don't know anything about their bias. The only thing I can say about their having published the article is that it was a guest commentary, because of the fact that several polygamous enclaves are relatively near St. George, so it is probably a frequently discussed subject in the area.

Of course the argument is one-sided. The argument put forth by the Church is extremely one-sided, as are the arguments put forth by the State of Utah, along with all the "mainstream" anti-polygamy groups that are normally quoted by most of the Utah newspapers.

According to my understanding of how plural marriage was practiced, the Stake Patriarch had the authority to recommend a plural marriage. With all the procedures and red tape we have now, I imagine it would take a General Authority to sign the recommend.

Plural marriage is practiced NOW in the Church. But only for those who have died, since the Church can't come under condemnation from society for such a thing.

If a man's wife dies, to whom he is sealed, he can get sealed to another woman, in this life. Both marriages are valid in the spirit world. If a man who has died had more than one wife (the first one died, etc), then he can be, and is, sealed to all of the women to whom he was married. So, plural marriage appears to be practiced in the spirit world, at least in my opinion. No marriage is solemnized in the spirit world without it being done in the temple, by proxy.

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You will never get any Leader to state it like that although I have publicly in EQ when someone asked. As for not coming under condemnation - well let us see... no one has raised (at least not to the magnitude of action) the issue, but maybe they will in the future and then another policy or restriction will be placed for that too.

As for the Spirit World, my point there was if they currently act the part or must wait until the resurrection to be considered in a Plural Marriage since it may be based on worthiness / state of the soul. I also wonder if someone who was in a common law relationship could request to be married to someone who has passed on? What if they were already married before and then went to a common law relationship?

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Actually, I have seen it phrased that way by various people, including seminary teachers, BYU teachers, and local authorities. You are probably right, no GA is going to state it like that, since most members consider any hint of plural marriage to be the height of immorality, at least as bad as adultery.

As far as how people deal with relationships in the spirit world, anything about that is pure speculation, as nothing has ever been made public about that, except for vague statements that people are the same there as they are here. Anyone who does have an answer on that subject would not be sharing that answer with anyone else, unless the Holy Ghost specifically tells them to do so, and I think that would only happen if the Lord had proven the person to be careful with His mysteries.