Official Sanction By The LDS Church
The Mormon doctrine of plural wives was officially announced by one of the Twelve Apostles Orson Pratt and LDS President Brigham Young in a special conference of the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints assembled in the Mormon Tabernacle on 28 August 1852, and reprinted in the Deseret News Extra the following day. The announcement came nine years after the purported original revelation by Joseph Smith, and five years after the Mormon Exodus to Utah following Smith's death in Illinois. Young was unable to produce the original document and declared that Smith's widow Emma Smith had burned it. To this Emma Smith replied that she had never seen such a document, and added concerning the story that she had destroyed the original: "It is false in all its parts, made out of whole cloth, without any foundation in truth."
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