If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
... wo unto that Nation or house or people who seek to hinder my People from obeying the Patriarchal Law of Abraham… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage,… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
In America, as was the topic earlier about polygamy, consenting adults are supposed to do - be able to do whatever they… — Max Kellerman Copy Share Image
Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“So he's a good, clean, decent man, and he's an enhancement to my life and he could also be an enhancement to… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think people should be allowed to do what they want to do. I think that it doesn't make sense for a… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
I know also another man who married a widow with several children; and when one of the girls had grown into her… — T. B. H. Stenhouse Copy Share Image
All commandments that I give must be obeyed unless they are revoked by me or by my authority and how can I… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to… — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you'll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Sarah lied about me. I never made the offer which she said I did. I will not advise you to break up… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“When did it become okay for the people who hold the Bible to be God’s absolute truth to choose which parts of… — Juliann Rich Copy Share Image
The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha,… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome...was a… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Prepare yourselves for two weeks from tomorrow; and I will tell you now, that if you will tarry with your husbands, after… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
