SUU Digital Library

Add or remove other collections to your search:



Allen Leigh Photographs
BAC-CSU-SUSC Yearbooks
Beaver (UT) Murdock Academy Collection
Branch Agricultural College Photographs
Branch Normal School Catalogs
 

Narrow your search by:



You've searched:

All Collections
  • All fields: years
(1247 results)



Display: 20

    • Page 66

    • Page 66
    •  

    • 60 U.S. Department of Education. (2010b). Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies: Title 1, Part A. Washington, DC: Retrieved October 15, 2010, from http://www2.ed.gov/programs/titleiparta/index.html Van Steensel, R. (2006)....
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 8

    • Page 8
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 9 Public interest in polygamy has steadily increased in the past decade as television dramas such as HBO’s “Big Love,” talk shows like Oprah and Dr. Phil, TLC’s reality television show “Sister Wives” and news...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 10

    • Page 10
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 11 Doctrine and Covenants in section 132, The Lord explained that the principle of plural marriage, as part of a “new and everlasting covenant” was an essential principle of salvation. As such, it was imperative for Joseph...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 11

    • Page 11
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 12 members lived in relative peace as they established colonies throughout, what are today the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada. As the borders of the United States expanded to include the Mormon...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 13

    • Page 13
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 14 In the years following the Manifesto, mainstream Americans were skeptical of the reversal of the LDS Church’s position on polygamy. In fact, many LDS Church members were skeptical of the legitimacy of Wilford Woodruff’s...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 16

    • Page 16
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 17 marriage in peace. From this time forward, the Work maintained a congregation in Salt Lake City and one in Short Creek. As Lorin Woolley grew older, he understood that it would be important to reorganize the high priesthood...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 17

    • Page 17
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 18 Church converted to the Work, but as time passed, fewer outsiders converted to the Work. Despite the fewer numbers of converts, a high birth rate within the community caused the congregations to steadily grow through the...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 18

    • Page 18
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 19 for the beleaguered believers. The strongest threat to the Work came in 1953 when Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle ordered Arizona state officers to drive a convoy of police vehicles and buses into Short Creek in an attempt...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 19

    • Page 19
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 20 As a result of the years of separation and danger, the citizens of Short Creek shied away from interaction with the outside world. They had learned through hard lessons that people in the outside world would not let them...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 20

    • Page 20
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 21 and should lead the Work and the community without the rest of the members of the high priesthood quorum. Because of political turmoil sponsored by those close to Leroy S. Johnson, a majority of the community believed that...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 21

    • Page 21
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 22 ’40’s and ‘50’s, which had broken their families apart for up to ten years. Understandably, the Centennial Park Action Committee (CPAC) tentatively began shedding light on their lifestyle that was considered strange,...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 23

    • Page 23
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 24 The message that the Centennial Park community is separate from these groups and is a community full of good, honest, and hard-working people, often got drown out by the din of prejudice and naïveté. Most people who live...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 25

    • Page 25
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 26 In Europe and subsequently in North America, polygamy has been seen as a barbarous and immoral lifestyle “since the earliest of times” (Austen, 2011). Because the belief that polygamy breeds immorality and abuse is so...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 26

    • Page 26
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 27 raised by mothers deprived of their basic rights; impoverishment; and, violation of their fundamental dignity. The harms against men include: the unequal distribution of spouses and related ostracism of younger men forced to...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 27

    • Page 27
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 28 purposes for practicing polygamy. Their work gave a holistic and broadly based understanding of what life was like for people in the two fundamentalist communities in which they worked. Power Differentiation To establish the...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 28

    • Page 28
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 29 Because discrimination has become more amorphous, it is more difficult to precisely identify and acknowledge (Camara & Orbe, 2010; Bosmajian, 1983). In addition to combating biased language, members of peripheral or...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 36

    • Page 36
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 37 culture are flexible enough to adapt to the other culture; thus, creating a stronger and richer joint culture as a result (Orbe, 1998). In America, the dominant demographics have historically been white, protestant,...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 43

    • Page 43
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 44 no wives. Most of these men expected to be asked by the community leaders to marry another wife sometime in the future. Contraceptives were discouraged because the Work preached that the main purpose of life on earth is to...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 52

    • Page 52
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 53 needed for two to three years. The mission provides a period of time for these young men to assess their commitment to the work and to focus on giving back to their community. In the process, these young men learn valuable...
    • Scholar Archive
    • Page 53

    • Page 53
    •  

    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 54 their community and help their own children become well-rounded and “comprehensively literate” members of the community. The people of Centennial Park recognized that the stigma associated with the polygamous lifestyle...
    • Scholar Archive

QuickView

Display a larger image and more item information when the pointer pauses over a thumbnail
on off
 

Layout options:

Thumbnail with title
Grid with smaller thumbnails and more detail
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 
OK
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 
OK