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| | Celestial marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Celestial marriage is an instance of the LDS doctrine of sealing. | | | Celestial Marriage is a doctrine peculiar to the Mormon religious movement, particularly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). | | | However, while plural marriage is eschewed by the LDS Church today, as it has been since The Manifesto (the 1890 Official Declaration by then LDS President Wilford Woodruff ending the sanction for plural marriage), culturally, many Mormons believe that Celestial Marriage as plural marriage, may be reinstated or recommence after the Second Coming. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_marriage
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| | Plural marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The most extensive use of plural marriage was by a minority of Mormon leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the mid- to late-19th Century. | | | Relinquishment of plural marriage by church members was not universal, however; some did not accept as divinely inspired the pronouncements truncating polygyny, and were either expelled from the church or left on their own. | | | Plural marriage (also sometimes called "celestial marriage" or "spiritual wifery") is a type of polygamy that was practiced by Joseph Smith, Jr. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_marriage
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| | Gospel Link |
| | Plural marriage was the nineteenth-century LDS practice of a man marrying more than one wife. | | | Personal accounts document that most who entered plural marriage in Nauvoo faced a crisis of faith that was resolved only by personal spiritual witness. | | | Though the revelation was first committed to writing on July 12, 1843, considerable evidence suggests that the principle of plural marriage was revealed to Joseph Smith more than a decade before in connection with his study of the Bible (see Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible), probably in early 1831. |
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http://ldsfaq.byu.edu/emmain.asp?number=145
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| | The Suspension Of Plural Marriage |
| | It is a principle of the Gods, it is heaven born. | | | I know that the principle of Plural Marriage is true; that it came direct from God; I have had evidence of its truthfulness, and have lived in it for nearly fifty years. | | | According to the Young Woman's Journal, the Church magazine for women, plural marriage is "the highest law of God" and "the law that marks the way to eternal progression". |
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http://www.zianet.com/collier/suspens.htm
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| | Polygamy Position Paper |
| | This position paper seeks to show that plural marriage is a traditional family structure lovingly practiced by people of many cultures and religions from ancient times up to the present. | | | Not all practice their religion in a way that is abusive to children. | | | In the Bible marriage is a covenant relationship. |
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http://www.bfree.org/media/position.htm
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| | Plural Marriage in Jewish History |
| | From the evidence of the Bible, plural marriage was not uncommon in Israel. | | | Lord, but his prior marriages were, according to the Bible, approved as "right in the eyes of the Lord". | | | The first patriarch that the Bible shows in a plural marriage relationship is Abra(ha)m. |
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http://www.polygamy.com/Jewish/Plural-Marriage-in-Jewish-History.htm
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| | NC Patriarchal Christianity 5: Guidelines on Plural Marriage for Pastors |
| | In countries where there is no tradition of plural marriage, no. Members of the Church are strongly discouraged from getting into discussions of this doctrine in public with any but those who are true Bible believers, and then only to defend the Word of God. | | | The whole thrust of the Firstborn Church is the overcoming of the passions, the transformation of egotism towards "Body-love" (a spiritual love for all men and women). | | | The normative form of marriage believed in by the Church is monogamy. |
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http://www.nccg.org/CPM005-Pastors.html
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| | Many Wives and Concubines |
| | Thus, presently within Mormonism the doctrine of eternal marriage--that is, a marriage sealed in a Mormon temple to continue throughout eternity--is labeled "celestial marriage." The doctrine of plural marriage (multiple wives) is understood as being distinct and separate from celestial marriage. | | | The importance of the practice of celestial or plural marriage in the early LDS Church cannot be over emphasized. | | | The Manifesto is purported to be an inspired proclamation to end plural marriage within the LDS Church. |
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http://www.answeringlds.org/artManyWives.html
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| | Principle Voices - Book ~ Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage |
| | These plural wives explain their unorthodox choices--choices made in religious faith and in a commitment to a Mormon way of life left behind over 100 years ago by the largely successful LDS Church. | | | This book reveals that plural wives are diverse, independent and balanced and have found meaning and fulfillment in their chosen lifestyle. | | | This book meets the authors' four aims: (1) to present a positive voice for plural marriage, (2) to demonstrate that a significant number of women have freely chosen to accept this lifestyle, (3) to help dispel false stereotypes, and (4) to allow plural wives to speak and be heard. |
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http://www.principlevoices.org/article.php?story=20050830071804790
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| | Mormon Polygamy (Bigamy) |
| | He said there cannot be a plural marriage solemnized in this Church without my consent and I have never given consent for this to be done since president of the Church. | | | In May 1900, David Eccles asked Gibbs to intercede on behalf of his post-Manifesto plural wife whose bishop threatened to excommunicate her for refusing to identify the father of her child. | | | Before young George Q. Cannon ever learned of the 1843 revelation on plural marriage, God "manifested to me that that principle would be revealed to this Church and practiced by the Church." |
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http://www.lds-mormon.com/mormon_bigamy.shtml?FACTNet
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| | Book Review-In Sacred Loneliness: the plural wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton |
| | It is clear from the historical accounts that those who were approached about plural marriage to Joseph Smith were shocked to the core of their being, and many initially refused his advances outright. | | | Her sealing to Smith is also significant in its demonstration of a classic dynastic marriage between Smith and an important church family, a marriage that assured the Whitneys eternal blessings and an important connection to the Mormon prophet in this life (p. | | | On the one hand, it was more than secular, monogamous marriage — it was the new and everlasting covenant, having eternal significance
On the other hand, day-to-day practical polygamous living, for many women, was less than monogamous marriage — it was a social system that simply did not work in nineteenth-century America. |
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http://www.irr.org/mit/sacredlon.html
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| | Polygyny and the LDS church during the 19th century |
| | I, Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hereby affirm and declare that no such marriages have been solemnized with the sanction, consent or knowledge of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | | | In spite of the denials, a few such marriages were apparently sealed as late as 1910 for trusted leaders of the Church. | | | Although no new polygamous marriages were conducted after the 1920's, existing plural marriages continued to receive strong support from the Church. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/lds_poly.htm
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| | Changing World Chapter 9 Part 1 |
| | This girl was but seventeen years of age, but she had implicit faith in the doctrine of plural marriage.... | | | To say that plural marriage is right because it was practiced in the Old Testament makes no more sense than to say that God approves of slavery since it was also practiced in the Old Testament. | | | This despite the fact that seven of our nine Church presidents have lived plural marriage, and that this principle still is and always will be a doctrine of the Church. |
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http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/changech9a.htm
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| | The First European Christian Polygamy Page - FICP - Patriarchal Christianity, Plural Marriage |
| | The marriage covenant and bond is viewed by us as the second most important relationship after that with Yahweh, our Heavenly Father, through Yah'shua the Messiah (Jesus Christ). | | | This is the model for the vast bulk of humankind, is the only acceptable pattern for the natural or carnal man, and is the only form of marriage taught by the New Covenant Church of God (B'rit Chadashah Assembly of Yahweh) as a general rule for its members. | | | Under special circumstances, however, biblical marriage does permit a more advanced form of relationship requiring great spiritual maturity and wisdom in order to be lived happily and successfully. |
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http://www.nccg.org/fecpp
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| | PLURAL MARRIAGES AFTER THE 1890 MANIFESTO |
| | And I say "them" in the sense of the distinction the Church made between those who were continuing plural marriage at that time. | | | They just said "concubines." I think that what it came to mean in Mormon practice and in Mormon thought in the 19th century was a woman who was married to a man without benefit of a sealing ceremony performed by a Priesthood holder. | | | From 1891 to 1894, young women regarded him as eligible for plural marriage and kept proposing to him. |
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http://www.ldshistory.net/pc/postman.htm
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| | Mormon plural marriage |
| | Why don’t you say, as a Church, that polygamy is no longer taught and is not encouraged by the Church?" Of course this was the very announcement the 1889 revelation prohibited the First Presidency from making, but Cannon obviously did not want to tell the newspaper that. | | | Newspapers reported that the non-Mormon allies of the Church were severely disappointed that the October 1888 conference adjourned with "no further revelation upon the polygamy question. | | | In 1888, Mormon leaders sent out mixed messages about continuing the practice of plural marriage. |
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http://www.lds-mormon.com/mormon_plural_marriage.shtml?FACTNet
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| | Polygamy Central 1831 - 1904 |
| | Also referred to as plural or Celestial marriage by most Mormons, to refer to more than one wife. | | | The Kirtland 1835 DandC section 101, contained church policies on marriage, which are not in the current, | | | [In Mormon History terms it not just more than one spouse, but Celestial marriage (or more than one wife) through special permission, authority, sanction, vow, covenant and sometimes command, by or on behalf of God. |
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| | Reason: Opening Marriage: Do same-sex unions pave the way for polygamy? |
| | Change it to include a union of two men, and who’s to say that it shouldn’t be redefined further to include one man and two women, two women and three men, or any other possible combination? | | | Conservatives would see it as the final destruction of the family. | | | Meanwhile, religious institutions could decide what kind of unions to solemnize. |
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http://www.reason.com/0403/co.cy.opening.shtml
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| | CBN News-Polygamy: The Next "Right" to be Legalized? |
| | If we accept that argument for same-sex couples there is really no basis for saying to a group of people who want to get married, ‘No, you can't get married.'” | | | Call The 700 Club Prayer Counseling Center at 1 (800) 759-0700, 24 hours a day. | | | Why wouldn't we allow classic Mormon old-fashioned style polygamy? |
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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050721a.asp
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| | National ACLU Policy on Plural Marriage |
| | As with the advocacy of political doctrines, a line must be drawn between expression of belief and the actual practice of an act which has been proscribed by the community through its legislative representatives (the test of a “clear and present danger”). | | | Advocacy of plural marriage and the expression of a religious belief in plural marriage are protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment even though polygamy has been declared to be criminal by states. | | | The ACLU believes that criminal and civil laws prohibiting or penalizing the practice of plural marriage violate constitutional protections of freedom of expression and association, freedom of religion, and privacy for personal relationships among consenting adults. |
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http://www.acluutah.org/pluralmarriage.htm
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| | DISSOLVING A PLURAL MARRIAGE IN CONNECTICUT |
| | By law, a person commits bigamy when he marries or purports to marry another person (1) in this state if either is lawfully married or (2) in any other state or country in violation of the laws thereof and knowingly cohabits and lives with such other person in this state as husband and wife. | | | Since the marriage presented in your question meets the statutory definition of bigamy, it could not have been legally performed here; thus, it appears that a Connecticut court would view the second and third marriages as invalid and not grant a divorce. | | | However, in order to dissolve a marriage, the state must first recognize the marriage as a valid one. |
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http://www.cga.ct.gov/2002/rpt/2002-R-0971.htm
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| | JEWISH PLURAL MARRIAGE |
| | The negative aspects are the wives must overcome feelings of jealousy towards the other wives,and it may be difficult in some circumstances to explain this type of marriage to your parents. | | | This page created using the webpage creation facilities of Webspawner. | | | SJM 38 5'10" 200lbs muscular build seeking several Jewish females for a plural marriage. |
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http://www.webspawner.com/users/jewishpluralmarria
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| | Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed: A Documentary History |
| | Only Nauvoo’s elite were invited to participate in these new ceremonies—never more than ninety individuals and even fewer during Joseph Smith’s lifetime—and, as the editors of the current volume write, only those who had been introduced to the prophet’s doctrine of plural marriage. | | | In another, Ebenezer Robinson innocently opened the upstairs door at the mercantile and was startled to see church apostle John Taylor in a long white robe and “turban,” carrying a sword. | | | An unusual aspect of the Quorum of the Anointed, compared to the membership in the Nauvoo Masonic Lodge, was that women were initiated as regular members. |
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http://www.signaturebooks.com/anointed.htm
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| | Marriage Help and Information |
| | The premiere of the show “Big Love,” about a man and his three wives living in a plural marriage, has sparked curiosity among couples in traditional marriages... | | | Discuss love, sex, marriage, husbands, wives our relationships, money issues, problems. |
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