Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Both polygamy and divorce, on the other hand, increased opportunities for reproduction—not for women, but for the men who wrote the laws… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“The lives of the older Da Silvas were empty and sad. They mourned the Slave Trade as a lost Golden Age when… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired… — William Law Copy Share Image
The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord… — William Law Copy Share Image
The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.… — Dennis McKinsey 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
Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Biblically defined marriage is a man and a woman for life, and so anything different than that is not God's ideal whether… — Max Lucado 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
