SALT LAKE TRIBUNE publishes AP story "Egyptian wife: Polygamy is the answer." Story states, "CAIRO, Egypt -- Hayam Dorbek wants her husband to get married. Again. In urging him -- and the rest of Egypt -- to be more open to polygamy as approved by Islam, the 42-year-old journalist has set off a lively debate in her country and the rest of the Arab world tuning in on satellite TV. Dorbek says she felt her work was keeping her so busy that her husband needed a second wife. She says he refused, 'but my son is helping me promote the idea,' she said." Dorbek states that the practice is the answer to many of her society's ills, such as adultery. In this she echos the arguments advanced 153 years earlier when Orson Pratt formally announced the LDS practice of polygamy. (1)
-- 5 years ago - Aug 29, 2005
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Leaves with Lydia to attend Chicago World's Fair. (2)
-- 117 years ago - Aug 29, 1893
[Heber J. Grant diary] Woodruff, Cannon, J. H. Smith and I were the only ones present After prayers we had quite a talk as to the ideas that were entertained by some of the brethren on the coming of a man like unto Moses to lead the saints out of bondage, and also the idea of some that this man had already come and that he was Brigham Young. (3)
-- 121 years ago - Aug 29, 1889
1 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
2 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
3 - Diary Excerpts of Heber J. Grant, Signature Books Library,
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