{"id":2098,"date":"2005-04-01T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2005-04-02T01:17:20","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T06:17:20","slug":"for-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/for-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygamy Restored!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leaks are just too many to ignore.  It&#8217;s apparently official.  Following the legal victories of alternative marriage advocates in state and federal courts, the Church will announce this weekend that the doctrine of plural marriage has been restored.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Polygamy was officially banned in 1890 under government pressure, though individual cases continued through at least 1908.  In recent years, the <em>Reynolds<\/em> decision upholding the polygamy ban has been called into question.  And cases have established rights to homosexual marriage in some jurisdictions, leading to earlier speculation about this weekend&#8217;s big event.  While the news isn&#8217;t entirely unexpected, it does still have a huge impact on our lives as church members.   And a surprise development has been the recurring rumor that under the new rules, women will be allowed to take multiple husbands in addition to men being allowed to take multiple wives. <\/p>\n<p>However the details turn out, this is an important development.  Millions of members are rejoicing at the advance news.  The official annoucement will come in General Conference this Sunday.  Don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaks are just too many to ignore. It&#8217;s apparently official. Following the legal victories of alternative marriage advocates in state and federal courts, the Church will announce this weekend that the doctrine of plural marriage has been restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}