Expansion and Repudiation
Under Young, the practice of polygamy spread among Utah Mormons for 40 years. A maximum of 20–25% of LDS adults were members of polygamist households. One third of the women of marriageable age and nearly all of the church leadership were involved in the practice. In 1890, the church repealed the practice of polygamy while under pressure by the United States government. The repeal was ostensibly directed by divine revelation to Wilford Woodruff and published as the 1890 Manifesto. Polygamy was finally effectively ended with the Second Manifesto.
Read more about this topic: Origin Of Latter Day Saint Polygamy
Famous quotes containing the words expansion and, expansion and/or repudiation:
“We are caught up Mr. Perry on a great wave whether we will or no, a great wave of expansion and progress. All these mechanical inventions—telephones, electricity, steel bridges, horseless vehicles—they are all leading somewhere. It’s up to us to be on the inside in the forefront of progress.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.”
—Gail Sheehy (20th century)
“Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of the fashionable and publicity-crazed modernities of our century.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)