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Originally Posted by Adam
. The "New and Everlasting Covenant" is PLURAL marriage. Today we pretend that the Manifesto is a revelation (it isn't--it doesn't claim to be--just read the damned thing out loud and listen to yourself and it is totally clear) which revoked DC 132. DC 132 wasn't revoked until JFS decided to end the practice in 1905 and kicked Taylor Jr. and Cowley out of the Quorum of the 12. But no revelation on point is recorded from that time and no revelation on point is claimed today.
The only honest position, IMHO, is to say that the Manifesto was smokescreen for the Feds and put the practice underground, the Church actually administratively suspended the approved practice of plural marriage in 1905, and the doctrine, as taught in DC 132, is still the doctrine of the Church which could be administratively reinstated as the practice of the Church at any time by any President of the Church.
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Quinn has written / spoken a lot about post-Manifesto polygamy.
Here's a good link with a useful timeline.
http://www.ldshistory.net/pc/postman.htm