Polygamy
The Lord's law of marriage.
Manifesto issued by Wilford Woodruff changing the church's policy on poligamy.
- Gordon B. Hinckley, "What Are People Asking about Us?", Ensign, Nov. 1998
(Question 4)
Good succinct explanation of church's stance on poligamy.
- Josephus, Wars, 1.24.2
Herod's poligamy and the traditions of the Jews.
The Lord found the poligamous practices of David and Solomon to be abominable.
Desired that the Nephites should be purified from this evil.
Poligamy should not be practiced among Nephites unless commanded.
It is worth noting that in the cases of David and Solomon, the Lord did, himself, give them multiple wives, but they clearly went to excess and took not only more than was given, but also that which was expressly forbidden. (For example, David took Bathsheba, and Solomon had many foreign wives.)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls, 11Q19, Col. 57
Sectarian work defining an ideal law of Jerusalem.
The king is to have only one wife at a time.
- Joseph Smith, compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith, "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith", p. 120
(May 8, 1838) Joseph Smith states that "we" do not believe in having multiple wives at once.
Some interesting statistical analysis of gender ratios in frontier Utah.