JFS says plural marriage is not essential to be member in good standing.

Date
Mar 2, 1904
Type
Interview
Source
Joseph F. Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Joseph F. Smith, Testimony at Reed Smoot Hearing, March 2, 1904, in Michael Paulos, The Mormon Church on Trial: Transcript of the Reed Smoot Hearings (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008), 67

Scribe/Publisher
Signature Books
People
Michael Paulos, Joseph F. Smith
Audience
United States Senate
Transcription

I know that there are hundreds, of my own knowledge, who say they never did believe in it [plural marriage] and never did receive it, and they are members of the Church in good fellowship. Only the other day I heard a man, prominent among us, a man of wealth, too, say that he had received all the principles of Mormonism except plural marriage, and that he never had received it and could not see it. I myself heard him say it within the last ten days.

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