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==''Gospel Topics'': "The Church’s role in these marriages became a subject of intense debate after Reed Smoot, an Apostle, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1903"==
 
[https://www.lds.org/topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng "The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org:
 
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The Church’s role in these marriages became a subject of intense debate after Reed Smoot, an Apostle, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1903. Although Smoot was a monogamist, his apostleship put his loyalty to the country under scrutiny. How could Smoot both uphold the laws of the Church, some of whose officers had performed, consented to, or participated in new plural marriages, and uphold the laws of the land, which made plural marriage illegal? For four years legislators debated this question in lengthy public hearings.<ref>[https://www.lds.org/topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng "The Manifesto and the End of Plural Marriage,"] ''Gospel Topics'' on LDS.org</ref>{{read more|url=https://www.lds.org/topics/the-manifesto-and-the-end-of-plural-marriage?lang=eng}}
 
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