85 years ago today - Jun 17, 1933

The First Presidency issues its most comprehensive and legalistic statement against post-Manifesto plural marriage and specifically denies the legitimacy of claims that John Taylor had an 1886 revelation on plural marriage. This statement causes a final break between the church and its Fundamentalists, who soon become true schismatics.

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

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