David O. McKay says polygamy "is not a principle but a practice" and that the blessings of "the eternity of the marriage covenant" are available to "a man with one wife."
- Type
- Personal Journal / Diary
- Hearsay
- Scribed VerbatimDirectReprint
- Reference
David O. Mckay, First Presidency meeting, February 3, 1956, reprinted in Confidence Amid Change: The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951-1970, ed. Harvard S. Heath (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2019), 136
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- Signature Books
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
I explained that it was my understanding regarding plural marriage that the having of more than one wife is not a principle but a practice. The principle of the eternity of the marriage covenant revealed to the Prophet [Joseph Smith] and all the blessings pertaining to that may be obtained by a man with one wife.
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