Do all or some Mormons have more than one wife?

Answer 1

I say it again: Any member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practicing polygamy since its termination in 1890 risks excommunication. Those freely admitting such practicing in the small communities out west are not true Latter-day Saints, but splinter groups that enjoy their fundamentalism and naming it Mormonism. They are not one and the same--they are splinters calling themselves Mormons.

What's more, any practicing polygamist--if he were in the Latter-day Saint Church--could never be truthful in any interviews granted for Temple recommends and Church callings. The lies they would emit would come back on them. When that happens their authority to act in the Church will have disappeared.

Answer 2

This is a question that has no straight answer. Dane H (above) has a fairly good answer, but I'm going to add one small caveat to that:

The LDS Church does not officially sanction polygamy. However, many members of the LDS Church (when I say "many," I mean probably less than 10,000; mostly in Utah) practice closet polygamy. In other words, they are members of the LDS Church, but are also members of "brotherhoods" that practice polygamy. These members must hide their polygamy from the stake and regional leaders of the Church, and in many instances, even from bishops and local congregations, for fear of being excommunicated. Excommunication of polygamous members has been official LDS Church policy since 1904 and has been rigorously enforced since roughly 1920 (check exact date), when Heber J. Grant's last plural wife died. Although some bishops "live and let live" in regards to this "spiritual wifery," the vast majority (especially outside of Utah) are quick to excommunicate upon proof of unrepentant polygamy.

For an example of a family living like this, just watch an episode of HBO's Big Love... the first wife & kids (as well as the husband) are members of the LDS Church. They moved to Sandy and took on two more wives, and have simply become "inactive" in the LDS faith while practicing FLDS-like doctrine. Every so often, the bishop in their former ward will stop by, and the first wife will tell him that the 2nd and 3rd wives are their "neighbors."

Answer 3

Only some. There are many sects of "Mormonism," the largest and most well-known is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This organization has not practiced plural marriage for over 100 years. Some of the other sects and division still engage in polygamy.

Answer 4

My dad was LDS, mormon, he had two wives, myself and my mon, I was an adopted daughter/wife.
This is a thing were the wife gets too depressed and the oldest child is adopted as a spouce. I call it the seragate spouce syndrome. (only if the Mother is depressed and has lots of kids) If the oldest child is a male, then the mother adopts the oldest as a seragate spouce, ift he oldest is a female then the father adopts the oldest as a seragate spouce.

Answer 5

Norrispenguin is right. Actually, the answers already listed are right. It is true that practicing polygamy by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not accepted in the faith today. It is also true that there are people who still practice it today.

Answer 6

My father has two wives! His wife and his ex-wife! Ha ha! Other than that, no members of the L.D.S. faith have more than one wife, unless they want to be excommunicated.