We are not the FLDS Church. This site was mounted by ordinary Mormons who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15,000,000 strong. We mounted this site to educate people who think we practice polygamy (we don’t) and to differentiate us from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. You will have to contact them to stop the advertising you are receiving.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not avoid talking about Joseph Smith’s polygamy and how it was instituted and practiced. The history has never been hidden, but now the Church is making the information even more readily available through new “topics” articles online and a new LDS Seminary manual. The institute manuals have always contained information about polygamy. Here’s a new article under the topics section: https://www.lds.org/topics/plural-marriage-and-families-in-early-utah?lang=eng

Polygamy is only a sin when God says it is. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob practiced polygamy and have been exalted. It takes sacrifice and purity, and even then it is difficult. If you read the personal accounts at http://historyofmormonism.com, you will see that many refused to enter into the practice until they received very profound revelations on the subject. Even then, only about 20% of Latter-day Saints entered into the practice. Today, of course, any Latter-day Saint who practices polygamy is excommunicated.

When you read Doctrine and Covenants 132, visualize it as the eternal marriage covenant between one man and one wife. Polygamy never was a requirement for exaltation. Its modern practice was meant to raise up righteous seed unto God at the very beginnings of the restoration during a period of great difficulty and probably as part of the “restoration of all things.”