Objection · Case 11 · Mormonism
The 1890 Manifesto didn’t end plural marriage. New plural marriages were performed with church sanction until the Second Manifesto of 1904. Isn’t the date misleading?
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Response
Correct, and the church’s own essay says so. The accurate statement is that the end was officially announced in 1890 and the practice was fully discontinued after 1904. The detail matters because it bears on whether the 1890 declaration was a revelation or a public statement made under federal pressure, which is the question the next exhibit takes up.
About this exhibit
This objection is to Official Declaration 1, Doctrine and Covenants.
President Wilford Woodruff’s 1890 Manifesto advised members to refrain from any marriage forbidden by law, and the church accepted it on October 6, 1890. It is now printed in the Latter-day Saint…