Webbles had some questions about polygamy and authority: I know the history because my ancestors went to the colonies in Mexico to continue living the higher laws.  Also, it is correct that the church abandoned the higher laws in 1890.  God more or less instructed President Woodruff to have the Church do so in 1889.  This is when the keys to administer the laws and ordinances of exaltation, which do not belong to the Church intrinsically anyway, were returned to the Priesthood organizatio