I really enjoyed this article. It was very thought out and nicely put together. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Great article, Jan.

Eric Snider gave this insight (which Jeff Lindsay put on his site with permission; I hope he doesn’t mind me putting it here, too).

“I was always uncomfortable with Wilford Woodruff’s conveniently timely revelation that the time to stop polygamy had arrived, until I learned more about it. God didn’t tell Pres. Woodruff that polygamy time was over COINCIDENTALLY just at the time that the church was about to be destroyed by the government; what God said was that because of all the persecutions, he would no longer require the saints to practice it. (See Doctrine and Covenants 124:49 – when a commandment is given, and the saints “go with all their might …to perform that work, … and their enemies come upon them and hinder them from performing that work, behold, it behooveth me to require that work no more at the hands of those sons of men, but to accept of their offerings.”) Basically, the saints were to keep practicing polygamy until their enemies killed them, or until God told them they could stop. Mercifully, God told them they could stop.”