Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph Smith's own household, caused a schism ...

For the first time the official site focused on the faith’s 19th-century practice of polygamy for kids. The storybook chapter on plural marriage began with Joseph Smith and other Latter-day ...

Such was the temper of the Mormon Bismarck. But the main cohesive force is polygamy. Here is once more the philosophy of Benjamin Franklin's " We must all hang together, or we shall all hang ...

Mormons hold fast to the belief that God has a physical presence and is married and can have children. They also believe that mankind can become gods after they die. Polygamy, or having more than ...

They argued that only a Smith descendant could hold the keys to Mormon leadership, and they vehemently denied that the ...

Residents of Pinesdale, afounded decades ago by fundamentalist Mormons, are suing for the land they say rightfully belongs to them; the breakaway church maintains it was never theirs.

The 'Sister Wives' star dives into the 'darker truth' that drove her to leave her church, Mormonism and her husband ...

When a splinter group of Mormon fundamentalists founded the town of Pinesdale more than 60 years ago, the hundreds of acres ...