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English
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“Schisms, like Revolutions, Never Go Backwards”: The Godbeites, the Cullom Bill, and the Anti-Polygamy Debate
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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March 2022
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42
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1
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61-76
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"It would take almost twenty more years and the passage of multiple pieces of harsh anti-polygamy legislation before the Mormons would officially stop practicing polygamy. And even then, it would take several more decades before the practice died out (among the mainstream church). The Godbeites’ influence waned throughout the 1870s. The Cullom bill stalled in the Senate and never passed. Despite the expectations and controversy which surrounded each of these around 1870, both would fade and become seemingly insignificant in the story of Mormonism and polygamy. The Godbeites have received the attention of a handful of Mormon historians, and the Cullom bill even fewer. And yet, the way that outsiders talked about the Godbeites in relation to the Cullom bill and the way they debated the different potential solutions to the Mormon problem reveal important expectations and fears regarding modernity, progress, and the ideals of Protestantism in America." [Author]
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