Mormon Polygamy

Solmonese: Mormons “Have Forgotten the Lessons of Their Struggle”

LDS Stand on Proposition 8 Oozes Irony

Young Gay Man Confronts His Past, Mormon Polygamy

Russell M. Nelson Decries Same-sex Marriage, Becomes Celestial Polygamist

History of Mormonphobia Offers Lessons about Homophobia

Gay Monogamous Couple Are Brains Behind Polygamy Show

Petitioner Angry Over “Celestial” Polygamy

Group Wants Elder Nelson Removed from Coalition

Tapestry Against Polygamy Calls Elder Russell M. Nelson “Serial Polygamist,” Denounces Hypocrisy

“One Man to One Woman” Outraged 19th Century Mormons

“The Advocate” Features Dustin Lance Black

What's So Queer about Mormons? Radio Show Explores the Question

“An Irony in the Church”: Dallin H. Oaks, Polygamy, and Same-Sex Marriage

Mormon Polygamy as a Threat to Traditional Marriage

Mormon Church Initiates Attack on Gay Civil Rights in California


Mormon Polygamy Links

The Four Major Periods of Mormon Polygamy   An essay by Dr. Todd Compton

http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org: Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith


Suggested Readings

Richard S. Van Wagoner, Mormon Polygamy: A History. Signature Books, 2nd edition, 1992.

Jessie L. Embry. Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle. University of Utah Press, 1987.

Todd Compton. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Signature Books; 1997.

Martha Sonntag Bradley, Four Zinas. Signature Books, 2000.

Martha Sonntag Bradley, Kidnapped from that Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists. University of Utah Press, 1993.

B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage. University of Illinois Press.

D. Michael Quinn, “ LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904”, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 9–105.

Thomas G. Alexander, Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890–1930, University of Illinois Press.

Hardy, B. Carmon (2005), “That ‘Same Old Question of Polygamy and Polygamous Living:’ Some Recent Findings Regarding Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Mormon Polygamy,” Utah Historical Quarterly 73 (3): 212-224.

Smith, George D. Nauvoo Polygamy: “… But We Called It Celestial Marriage”. Signature Books, May 2011.













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