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English
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The 1948 Secret Marriage of Louis J. Barlow : Origins of FLDS Placement Marriage
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2007
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40
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no.1
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83-136
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In 1948 Louis J. Barlow pressured fifteen-year-old Christine Jessop to secretly marry him. Her father, polygamist Joseph L. Jessop, fought against the marriage because his permission had not been given nor did Christine want to be married to Barlow. Eventually, a leader of the "Priesthood Council," a seven member body that had been formed by polygamists who traced their priesthood power back to John Taylor, agreed with him and the marriage was absolved. Watson examines this event and the fractures that followed among the fundamentalist community to show how placement marriage of underage women was not always a practice of these polygamist communities, but has really evolved over the last half a century