Orson Pratt Quotes About Polygamy

Quotes about: Polygamy

• I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

  Orson Pratt

  Jesus, Children, Wife

  "Journal of discourses. By B. Young [and others]. Reported by G.D. Watt [and others]". Book edited by George D. Watt, 1855.

• God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I am very glad to say that only a low such instances have come under my notice) a brother or a sister say, 'I am a Latter-day Saint, but I do not believe in polygamy.' Oh, what an absurd expression! What an absurd idea! A person might as well say, 'I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I do not believe in him.'

  Orson Pratt

  Brother, Jesus, Believe

• We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.

  Orson Pratt

  Jesus, Father, Wife

• Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.

  Orson Pratt

  Country, Believe, Europe

• This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

  Orson Pratt

  Character, Law, Evil

  Orson Pratt (1874). “The Bible & Polygamy: Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? A Discussion Between Professor Orson Pratt and Rev. Doctor J.P. Newman in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, August 12, 13, and 14, 1870”, p.83

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