“O that my voice could reach the ears of those uninformed and
misinformed”1 by Suzanne Armitage It has been said by some,
‘what good will it do to hold a mass meeting?’ If it does no
other good, it will be a matter of history, to be handed down to
our posterity, that their mothers rose up in the dignity of
their womanhood to protest against insults and indignities
heaped upon them.2 Much has been published on the topic of the
Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy over the past two decades;
authors Danel Bachman, Todd Compton, Kathryn Daynes, Jessie
Embry, B. Carmon Hardy, Carol Cornwall Madsen and Richard Van
Wagoner are familiar names to those who have made the effort to
learn more about it. Polygamy–or more correctly polygyny, the
marriage of more than one woman to the same man–was an important
part of the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
day Saints for a half century. The practice began during the
lifetime of Joseph Smith but became publicly and widely known
during the time of Brigham Youn