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This is the month of Halloween observations. In Utah, as much money is spent
on decorations and spooky activities as is spent for Christmas. Utah’s culture
believes and teaches that Jesus and Lucifer, the devil, are spirit brothers. They
believe that all the demons and all humans are spirit brothers and sisters from a
sexual union between God the Father and one of His polygamous wives. Culture
reflects what people believe—and so does behavior. Perhaps that’s why Utah is
highest in the U.S.A. for violent sex crimes.
Polygamy groups traffic in marriage and sex with minors, most of them
advocate incest, they all encourage their women to never say “no” to their
husbands and expect them to give birth to very large families. Mormon doctrine
teaches marriage is essential to attain their highest degree of heavenly glory.
Someone said, when people reject the truth, they open themselves up to some
very strange beliefs. This is certainly true with Mormon polygamy groups. Pray for
a huge breakthrough.
We thank you for your support and prayers that enable us
to bring Biblical truths to polygamists.
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“Can a woman have more than one husband at the same time? No: Such a principle was never sanctioned by scripture. The object of marriage is to multiply the species, according to the command of God. A woman with one husband can fulfill this command, with greater facilities, than if she had a plurality; indeed, this would, in all probability, frustrate the great design of marriage, and prevent her from raising up a family. As a plurality of husbands, would not facilitate the increase of posterity, such a principle never was tolerated in scripture. As a plurality of husbands, would not facilitate the increase of posterity, such a principle never was tolerated in scripture. But a plurality of wives would be the means of greatly increasing a family, and of thus fulfilling the command, not only to a far greater extent on the part of the husband, but also on the part of the females who otherwise might have been under the necessity of remaining single forever.” ~ Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt, The Seer, pg. 60
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MORMON POLYGAMY HISTORY
~~It all began with Joseph Smith~~
From the Introduction of THE WOMEN OF MORMONISM: As Told by the Victims Themselves. Edited By JENNIE ANDERSON FROISETH
There is something chivalric as the knights of old in the Author's defense of Mormon women from the harsh criticisms made by the uninformed upon their course in submitting to this most awful form of tyranny [polygamy]. But with the physical strength and the money-power in the one scale, and the mother-heart in the other, there is no more mystery about the passive attitude of Mormon women than about that of unhappy wives in more favored localities, or in the mute endurance of slaves or squaws. When Brigham Young declared that "if women would not submit to polygamy, they should be eternally damned," and when history shows that women who have resisted have often been murdered, the mystery of the non-resistance policy which they commonly pursue, is certainly cleared up. "Starve them, and beat them if necessary, to bring them to submission," said the Mormon apostles; " better crucify the body than let the soul go to perdition." Well was the method of these hypocrites characterized by a Mormon woman who said of one of them, "He is a man who steps on hearts as though he stepped on stones."
Surely it is time that the Christian women of this nation arouse themselves to organized action against this sum of all curses which can curse the sex not physically strong. To say we have been hitherto indifferent would be a libel on our womanhood no less than our religion; to say we have been idle would be unjust, when we remember the books of Mrs. Stenhouse, the Anti-Polygamy Journal of Mrs. Froiseth, the lectures of Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, and the great petitions which have registered where they were little heeded, the votes of the great army of women whose actual ballot would soon deliver our captive sisters [Mormon plural wives] on the blighted frontier. But the hour demands a deeper, more combined, and far-reaching movement; and the instinct of self-protection no less than of philanthropy should warn the wives and mothers of this land that each woman degraded means the potential degradation of all women.
... until the Book of Mormon is burned in the fierce blaze of Christian manhood's indignation and woman's righteous wrath, and the Gospel of Him who came not only to redeem the world but to restore to woman her lost inheritance, "the equality of equals," is the beloved Home Religion in every Home.
FRANCIS E. WILLARD, CHICAGO, 1882
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young taught
“Live polygamy or be damned!”
BUT THE BIBLE SAYS:
1 Corinthians 7:8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:32-34 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
Quote from an ex-plural wife who chooses to remain anonymous.
“I was a slave labeled as a wife in polygamy. I was sold at 16. Given to a man I never wanted to be with. I was not favored and had hardships because I was not able to produce a baby every year. I worked four jobs to support the children I had. They paid me minimum wage and I worked 80 hours a week to pay my bills to support my small children and feed them. I worked for the church and had babies for the church. I was sat down and told how cattle have a baby every year and how to make sure that baby is a girl. Because the man I was sold to was never home, I had to understand how my body works, and how to have that baby and, have it be a girl. I was not human. I was a slave. If a wife or the man wanted to hit me they did. To top it all off my money was in the church and I was not allowed to get it when I needed it.
I was proud I was my exes most expensive wife. I was happy to be told how cows work. It helped me have my kids. I was happy working 7 days a week. I was so happy to have a savings for the church to use and not feed my family with it. But it is so crazy looking back. I would never want my kids to live that.
GB wrote: I fear the day will come when polygamy will not be against the law. We’re living in scary times!
Reply: We agree. The Bible tells us that evil men and imposters will go from bad worse, we see that happening in our world, it will continue until Jesus returns.
NB wrote: Polygamy is insane .. all we need is monogamous faithful marriage till the end... or we are heading towards. Disaster.
BL wrote: I have been following the whole topic of polygamy in North America for over a decade. To hear that the LDS told anybody to go to the law if they know of abuse is laughable. The LDS is hand in glove with the government in Utah and I cannot imagine it ever changing, or at least until the vast majority of Utah is some day not LDS any longer.
Reply: The LDS church is currently experiencing investigations, lawsuits and pressure regarding several cases where they kept child abuse and incest hidden away, refusing to report it to the authorities. We do hope and pray justice will finally be applied in this abusive culture.
DB wrote: Wow!! This is so astounding that I didn’t even understand what I believed when I was a polygamist, then Mormon! What a perversion. Praying for you all. Please pray for all the polygamists to be set free.
Reply: We do constantly pray polygamists will be set FREE IN JESUS, we ask our readers to do the same.
ST wrote: If more people knew about the early Christian writings such as Eusebius and others, Mormonism would have never gotten off the ground. J. Smith got all the doctrine wrong in the first place.
Reply: Joseph Smith and his converts had access to the Bible to compare their doctrine, they refused to believe Bible was accurate. The LDS and polygamists continue to reject Biblical truths.
Kingston Polygamy Group’s Charter School, Vanguard Academy
The Utah State Charter School Board (SCSB) decided to remove Vanguard Academy's entire board after they confirmed the results of a FOX 13 News investigation published nearly two years ago, showing how Kingston board members were approving millions of taxpayer dollars to be spent on Kingston family businesses. The board members are all from the Kingston polygamy group, they held a secret meeting which was against Utah State School Board policy.
More than a thousand students from Vanguard Academy held a rally on September 2nd saying they are upset about the firing of the entire school board. The demonstrators held signs saying: "Shame on Utah" - "Are you listening Governor Cox?" "Hold the Charter Board accountable" - "Why do you hate us?"
Evidently 61 parents swore under oath that they would remove their children from the school if the decision stands because they fear “religious discrimination.”
This is a classic example of the polygamists yelling persecution, when they themselves are the persecutors. The school has already been found practicing racial discrimination—Mormon polygamy groups follow the Book of Mormon in believing that all dark-skinned people are under God’s curse. Those 61 parents will remove their children from the school only if they are forced to obey the law of non-discrimination of any kind.
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LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST KINGSTON POLYGAMIST FAMILY
The Kingston polygamy group aka “The Order”
A lawsuit has been filed against the Kingston polygamist family by ten former members who allege the group and its leaders engage in sexual and physical abuse, trafficking, fraud and child labor. The lawsuit accuses Kingston leaders of secret marriages because they involve incest and underage girls and alleges its normal practice to get young girls pregnant so they will not leave the group, especially for girls who resist order rules. The lawsuit consists of 109 pages and asks for a jury trial to decide on 32 allegations the lawsuit mentions. Despite
requests for comments neither the attorneys representing the Kingston group nor a spokesperson from the Polygamy Group itself would come forward.
In our experience and conversations with faithful members of the LDS church, it seems everyone has a different viewpoint about their history of polygamy. Some have no issues with their past polygamy, others struggle with it, some don’t really care, others justify it with various legends that explain the reasons for the practice. The church leaders don’t like today’s polygamy groups but do little to help the situation. Polygamy remains in their Doctrine & Covenants, and sealing one man to multiple women for the afterlife is still practiced in their Mormon temples. Some people don’t know the truth about polygamy, and yet others deny Joseph Smith introduced, taught or practiced polygamy himself, that it was all Brigham Young’s doing. They say he changed ALL the historical evidence to make it look like it came from Joseph Smith which is an impossibility! People believe what they “want“ to believe—and only God can help them want and know the truth.
- We continue to produce podcasts interviewing guests and discussions of polygamy related news events.
- Pray that God will use these podcasts to open the hearts and eyes of Mormon Fundamentalists.
- Pray for polygamists to be set FREE in Jesus.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:1 ...pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored.
- Pray for the young girls in polygamy groups to be able to escape the doctrine of “polygamy for salvation.”
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