Law Prof Suggests New Insights From Old Polygamy Cases

At PrawfsBlawg, Paul Horwitz has an interesting post titled "Teaching the 'Mormon' Cases". He suggests that reading the Reynolds case and Davis v. Beason along with the 1890 Revelation from Wilford Woodruff, then-President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, demonstrates that the Mormon Church's decision to end polygamy illustrates a fascinating effort of a religious group to grapple religiously with a set of secular facts.