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Possibly as early as the 1830s, followers of the Latter Day Saint movement (also known as Mormonism), were practicing the doctrine of polygamy or "plural marriage". After the death of church founder Joseph Smith, the doctrine was officially announced in Utah Territory in 1852 by Mormon leader Brigham Young.
George Reynolds was a Utah resident and member of the LDS Church. He was convicted on polygamy charges for having two wives and his defense claimed that his First Amendment right to freedom of religion had been violated. When the case came before the United States Supreme Court, Reynolds's conviction was upheld.
Rockland Ranch (also known as "The Rock") is a fundamentalist Mormon, polygamous community in Moab, Utah. [1] The community was founded in 1977 by Robert Dean Foster (d. 2008 [1]) as a place for fundamentalist Mormons to live and practice plural marriage out of the public eye. [2] There were fifteen families involved in the community's ...
Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for more than half of the 19th century, and practiced publicly from 1852 to 1890 by between 20 and 30 percent of Latter-day Saint families.
The Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) is a Mormon fundamentalist group that practices polygamy.The AUB has had a temple in Mexico since at least the 1990s, an endowment house in Utah since the early 1980s, and several other locations of worship to accommodate their members in the US states of Wyoming, Arizona, and Montana.
In May 1935, members of the Council of Friends, a group of fundamentalists excommunicated from the Salt Lake City–based the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), sent a handful of followers to the Short Creek Community with the express purpose of building "a branch of the Kingdom of God."
Thomas Arthur Green (June 9, 1948 – February 28, 2021) [1] [2] was an American Mormon fundamentalist in Utah who was a practitioner of plural marriage.After a high-profile trial, Green was convicted by the state of Utah on May 18, 2001, of four counts of bigamy and one count of failure to pay child support.
The enforcement of the acts led to prosecution of many Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory. Following the passage of the Edmunds Act, bigamy or plural marriage was a crime punishable by 6 months in prison and a fine of $300. [4] Many Latter-day Saints engaged in plural marriage were forced into hiding to avoid prosecution. [4]