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| |L1=Gospel Topics: "The Second Manifesto. At first, the performance of new plural marriages after the Manifesto was largely unknown to people outside the Church"
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| |L2=Gospel Topics: "The Church’s role in these marriages became a subject of intense debate after Reed Smoot, an Apostle, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1903"
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| |L3=Gospel Topics: "Church President Joseph F. Smith took the stand in the Senate chamber in March 1904. When asked, he defended his family relationships"
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| |L4=Question: Why were some plural marriages performed after the Manifesto?
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| |L5=Gregory L. Smith, M.D., "Polygamy, Prophets, and Prevarication: Frequently and Rarely Asked Questions about the Initiation, Practice, and Cessation of Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"
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| |L6=Gospel Topics, "Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah"
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| |L7=Lisa Olsen Tait: The Manifesto and the end of Polygamy
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| {{:Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:The Second Manifesto}}
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| {{:Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Reed Smoot hearings}}
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| {{:Source:Gospel Topics:The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage:Joseph F. Smith broke the law}}
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| {{:Question: Why were some plural marriages performed after the Manifesto?}}
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| ===Lisa Olsen Tait: The Manifesto and the end of Polygamy===
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| |link=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/publications/polygamy-prophets-and-prevarication
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| |title=Polygamy, Prophets, and Prevarication: Frequently and Rarely Asked Questions about the Initiation, Practice, and Cessation of Plural Marriage in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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| |author=Gregory L. Smith, M.D.
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| |authorlink=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/authors/smith-gregory
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| |publication=FairMormon Papers
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| |summary=We note again that the Church and its members were in an impossible position–the government showed no concern for the women and children who would be left without support if government policies were obeyed. Members and leaders again had agonizing choices to make, in which all their moral duties simply could not be honored. Joseph F. Smith wrote to a member who faced just this dilemma, “The whole thing in a nut shell is this, you should keep your covenants with your family and you should also not violate the law. Now if you can comprehend it–you will grasp the situation.”
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| The situation–which critics and many modern members have not grasped–is that it was impossible to do both. A choice had to be made, the Saints chose whatever was most important, and most seem to have chosen support for families over being straightforward with the government.
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| President Woodruff continued similar tactics throughout the remainder of his administration. By July 1892 he had granted a few recommends for plural marriages in Mexico, and in June 1897 marriages sanctioned by the First Presidency were performed at sea, on the Great Lakes, and in Mexico. There is circumstantial evidence that President Woodruff himself married a plural wife at sea in September 1897. At times, President Woodruff seems to have maintained some “plausible deniability” by declining to personally approve a polygamous marriage, while referring the potential polygamists to his counselor, George Q. Cannon, for a recommend.
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| |summary=After the Manifesto, monogamy was advocated in the Church both over the pulpit and through the press. On an exceptional basis, some new plural marriages were performed between 1890 and 1904, especially in Mexico and Canada, outside the jurisdiction of U.S. law; a small number of plural marriages were performed within the United States during those years. In 1904, the Church strictly prohibited new plural marriages. Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church.
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| |title=Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah
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| |publication=Gospel Topics
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| |author=Gospel Topics
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| |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (lds.org)
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| |date=2013
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| |link=http://www.lds.org/topics/plural-marriage-and-families-in-early-utah?lang=eng
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