BYU drops website on polygamy
There is no place for polygamy in Mormon life -- not even on a Web site.
That's the message a Brigham Young University assistant dean got when administrators ordered him to take down a Web page from the university's server that discussed the history of polygamy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Within a day, though, he had moved all the content to an independent Web site called Mormon-Polygamy.org, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Jim Engebretsen, assistant dean for corporate relations and M.B.A. director at Brigham Young's Marriott School of Management, says many people mistakenly believe that polygamy is still practiced by Mormons. He says he wants to provide facts for people interested in the church's history.
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That's the message a Brigham Young University assistant dean got when administrators ordered him to take down a Web page from the university's server that discussed the history of polygamy and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Within a day, though, he had moved all the content to an independent Web site called Mormon-Polygamy.org, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Jim Engebretsen, assistant dean for corporate relations and M.B.A. director at Brigham Young's Marriott School of Management, says many people mistakenly believe that polygamy is still practiced by Mormons. He says he wants to provide facts for people interested in the church's history.