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A celestial marriage is thought to continue forever into the afterlife if the man and woman do not break their covenants. [15] Thus, eternally married couples are often referred to as being "sealed" to each other. Sealed couples who keep their covenants are also promised to have their posterity sealed to them in the afterlife. [15]
[45]: 144 After the Manifesto prohibiting plural marriage, members felt that there was a lack of available Mormon men for women to marry, even though there were a sufficient number. Fiction from the Young Woman's Journal attempts to make religious marriage attractive by describing it as romantic. [ 45 ]
In 1847, former slave [67]: 100 and Mormon convert William McCary drew the ire of Brigham Young and others in Nauvoo for his marriage to a White woman, Lucy Stanton, and his later alleged mixed-race polygamous sealings to additional White women without church authorization.
Nine months after her marriage to Smith, Sarah married Joseph C. Kingsbury in a civil ceremony. [57] Joseph C. Kingsbury said he was "well aware" of this marriage. [58] William Clayton listed her as one of Smith's wives whom he married in early May 1843. [52] She was married to Heber C. Kimball from March 17, 1845, to June 22, 1868. Martha ...
The women talk about the importance of getting pleasure out of sex themselves, and later, Whitney laments not getting any advice about sex before marriage. "I feel like we were so involved in the ...
Although plural marriage is currently prohibited in the church, a man can be sealed to multiple women, in the case of widowers who are sealed to both their deceased and living wives. Additionally, men who are dead may be sealed by proxy to all women to whom they were legally married while alive.
Mormon women who spoke with USA TODAY say yes, tales like these exist in the broad, diverse community but it's far from the whole story. ... 25, "we are not commanded to get married young or have ...
(Reuters) - The Mormon church has admitted that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, having maintained for ...