Milton and the Early Mormon Defense of Polygamy

Tanner, John S.

doi:10.1111/j.1094-348x.1987.tb00708.x

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Mormon Self-conceptions: "Come Unto Zion"1

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“…28 Latter-day Saint apologists were especially keen to link their beliefs with those of the great figures of Western intellectual history such as Martin Luther and Milton, who both defended polygamy on scriptural grounds. 29 In a stance some historians continue to regard as baffling, Mormon women, such as Susa Young Gates and Emmeline B. Wells, promoted female suffrage and polygamy together in their magazine, the Women's Exponent.…”

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Curious Gentiles and Representational Authority in the City of the Saints

Eliason¹

2001

Relig. Am. cult.

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The erection of a State of the Union whose population consisted of Turks or Afghans would not be a worse blunder fraught with more dangerous consequences than the creation of a State composed of Mormons.— C. E. Dutton, an American geologist who surveyed Utah several times during the 1870s.R T. Barnum, the great circus promoter, came to Salt Lake City to meet Brigham Young. The Church President jokingly asked Barnum, “Well, how much money do you think we could make if you were to put me on display back East?” Barnum answered, “Mr. President, I guarantee you half the receipts which will be in excess of $200,000 a year because you would be the greatest show in town.”

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