Loyalty Oath
Title
Loyalty Oath
Description
This is an excerpt taken out of Ken Drigg's article “Twentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah” from Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 24 (1991).
This is a copy of an oath which suspected polygamists were asked to sign under President Heber J. Grant's rule. It was intended to end all polygamist practices in the early 20th century. This is one of the most explicit ways in which the Church attempted to self-regulate their member's marital practices. There was no tolerance for polygamy at this point, and this demonstrates a further split between Church of Latter-Day Saints and more fundamental groups.
This is a copy of an oath which suspected polygamists were asked to sign under President Heber J. Grant's rule. It was intended to end all polygamist practices in the early 20th century. This is one of the most explicit ways in which the Church attempted to self-regulate their member's marital practices. There was no tolerance for polygamy at this point, and this demonstrates a further split between Church of Latter-Day Saints and more fundamental groups.
Creator
Church of Latter-Day Saints
Source
Driggs, Ken. “Twentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 24 (1991): 44-58. Accessed October 18, 2011, doi: https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V24N04_46.pdf.
Publisher
Truth Magazine
Date
1935
Date Available
1991
Date Created
1935
Contributor
Joseph Musser
Language
English
Original Format
paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Church of Latter-Day Saints, “Loyalty Oath,” Inbetween Peoples, accessed July 6, 2020, https://as205.omeka.net/items/show/212.