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Franklin D. Richards on Polygamy and Bigamy

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Franklin D. Richards said: Now, I ask, who is injured by a man taking a second wife, when the wife he now has is agreeable and it is mutually understood between her and him and the newly affianced ; it being entered into with a mutual understanding and a mutual agreement according to the law of God—I ask, who is injured? Wherein consists the crime of bigamy? It is this. When a man takes one wife he covenants to adhere to her until death do them part. He violates that covenant when he takes another woman, unknown to his wife; he thus practices fraud upon her .  - Journal of Discourses vol. 26, p. 341 ( byu.edu )
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Salvation and Temples

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The Book of Mormon states: I say unto you, if ye have come to a knowledge of the goodness of God...and also, the atonement which has been prepared from the foundation of the world…. I say, that this is the man who receiveth salvation, through the atonement…. And this is the means whereby salvation cometh . And there is none other salvation save this which hath been spoken of; neither are there any conditions whereby man can be saved except the conditions which I have told you.  -Mosiah 4:6-8 ( churchofjesuschrist.org ) Brigham Young stated: Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father , passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell.   - Discourses of Bri...
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Brigham Young on the Law of God Regarding the "African Race"

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Brigham Young stated: Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so .  - Journal of Discourses , vol. 10, p. 110 ( byu.edu )
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Brigham Young Says Polygamy is the Marital Standard of Heaven

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Brigham Young stated: Monogamy , or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men…. Why do we believe in and practise polygamy? Because the Lord introduced it to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith, and the Lord's servants have always practiced it . “And is that religion popular in heaven?” It is the only popular religion there ....   - Deseret News , August 6, 1862, p. 1, column 4, ( utah.edu )
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Joseph Smith Proposing to Lucy Walker

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When Lucy Walker Kimball was 16, Joseph Smith told her: Although I cannot , under existing circumstances, acknowledge you as my wife , the time is near when we will go beyond the Rocky Mountains and then you will be acknowledged and honored as my wife....   This principle will yet be believed in and practiced by the righteous. I have no flattering words to offer. It is a command of God to you. I will give you until tomorrow to decide this matter. If you reject this message the gate will be closed forever against you .  -Statement of Mrs. Lucy Walker Kimball, quoting Joseph Smith ( walkerfamily.org )
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Joseph Smith on the Book of Abraham

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Joseph Smith (or a scribe) wrote: On the 3rd of July, Michael H. Chandler came to Kirtland to exhibit some Egyptian mummies. There were four human figures, together with some two or more rolls of papyrus covered with hieroglyphic figures and devices...and with W. W. Phelps and Oliver Cowdery as scribes, I commenced the translation of some of the characters or hieroglyphics, and much to our joy found that one of the rolls contained the writings of Abraham ....  - History of the Church , vol. 2, pp. 235-236, 1835 ( byu.edu ) A church essay states: None of the characters on the papyrus fragments mentioned Abraham’s name or any of the events recorded in the book of Abraham . Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham, though there is not unanimity, even among non-Mormon scholars, about the proper interpretation of the vignettes on these fragments. Scholars have identified the papyr...
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Mark E. Petersen on "Negroes"

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Elder Mark E. Petersen said: Think of the Negro, cursed as to the Priesthood . Are we prejudiced, against him? Unjustly, sometimes we’re accused of having such a prejudice. But what does the mercy of God have for him? This Negro, who in the pre-existence life lived the type of life which justified the Lord in sending him to the earth in the lineage of Cain with a black skin , and possibly being born in darkest Africa – if that Negro is willing when he hears the gospel to accept it, he may have many of the blessings of the gospel…. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the Celestial Kingdom. He will go there as a servant , but he will get a Celestial resurrection….   Now what is our policy in regard to intermarriage? As to the Negro, of course, there is only one possible answer. We must not intermarry with the Negro .   -"Race Problems - As They Affect the Church", August 27, 1954 ( archive.org )
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