After Quote by Scott Anderson

George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice…

— Daniel Walker Howe

The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who…

— Dallin H. Oaks

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy,…

— Jedediah M. Grant

Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize…

— D. Michael Quinn

It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered children, but…

— John Turner

“It is one of the great ironies of Mormon history that Smith, who set the polygamous movement in motion, never experienced it in practical…

— Todd M. Compton

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it…

— Scott Anderson

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in…

— Trey Parker

... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies.…

— Fawn M. Brodie

Of all the names Polygamy went by (so as not to exasperate the Gentile population and even some of the wives of the members'…

— Ardyth Kennelly

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

— Shana Alexander

But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught…

— Jon Krakauer