Nonetheless there were rumors, and many signals shot from Smith and Alger lingering around society of challenges that were yet to come within the Mormon community. Plural marriage, or polygamy, was the nineteenth-century's main practice of a man marrying more than one wife. Although polygamy had been practiced all over the world for centuries, it enlightened Americans during this time where it was quickly viewed as unacceptable and incomprehensible. Once it spread the church deemed it as the most controversial and least understood practice; Mormons basically screaming "no" to American society. Though this principle is very brief in American history, it had a large impact on Latter-Day Saints, helping them establish themselves as "people apart". The practice caused many non-members to distance themselves from the church to have Latter-Day Saints in their new society. .
Rumors were spread about plural marriage among the members attending the church in the 1830's and 1840's leading to persecution, and the public announcement of the Mormons practice of polygamy and, in later years, eventually led to hostility in Utah against the Church. Although the Latter-day Saints believed that their religiously-based practice of plural marriage was protected by the U.S. Constitution, there were many opponents abusing the rights they thought they had in many different states. Anti-polygamy legislation was out to strip the Latter-Day Saints of their rights as citizens and of course, to take them out of the church scene completely. Plural marriage challenged those within the Church to even want to continue to be an active member in it. Spiritual descendants of the Puritan culture and sexually conservative, early participants in plural marriage fought for the right and then assumed they were free to embrace the principle. They felt since they received personal spiritual confirmation that it was okay to do so.
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