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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I'm saying that while he said it was a revelation to stop, that he remained complicit it new polygamous marriages well after 1890. At least, that is what I understand.
If the revelation was really to stop and end it, why didn't he?
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All evidence points to the fact that he did -the church stopped practicing polygamy! Reasonable people can accept the idea that it was phased out over time. I'm not aware of definative evidence that he married another woman after the fact, no more than you are.
Let's be careful not to impose 21st century sensabilities onto the people of that time frame. What status in society in general did woman hold in that time frame? The practice of promising and courtship was much more complex than one might want to believe. It wasn't as cut and dried as that sixteen year old is cute, I'm gonna get me one of those as Seattle would have you believe.