The 1890 Manifesto was a surrender, not a revelation.
The LDS Church renounced plural marriage under federal pressure. Mormon fundamentalists hold that a commandment given in Doctrine and Covenants 132 cannot be withdrawn for legal convenience.
The 1890 Manifesto ended plural marriage as official LDS practice under sustained federal pressure — the church's property had been seized and Utah statehood was blocked. Mormon fundamentalists hold that a commandment revealed in Doctrine and Covenants 132 cannot be repealed for political convenience, and that authority to continue it was passed privately to a line of men beginning with John W. Taylor and Lorin Woolley. The LDS Church rejects that account entirely, excommunicates for plural marriage, and objects to the use of its name. The dispute is over authority rather than over scripture: both bodies hold the same canon.
If any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another... he is justified.
Doctrine and Covenants 132:61The FLDS holds this cannot be repealed; the LDS Church renounced the practice in 1890 and excommunicates for it.
The same ground, other faiths
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