Deseret News Rejects Ads for Mormon Polygamy Books

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By: Paul Rolly The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Tribune recently ran ads for Signature Books promoting two of its books about polygamy in the LDS Church’s early days, "In Sacred Loneliness" by Todd Compton and "Mormon Polygamy" by the late Richard Van Wagoner, which was originally published in the 1980s.

The ads did not appear in the LDS Church-owned Deseret News. The paper refused to run them. That puzzled Tom Kimball, marketing director for Signature Books, since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently released several essays about Mormon polygamy, shedding light on the subject and acknowledging the plural marriages of LDS founder Joseph Smith.

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