Talk:Colonia Dublán
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mexico, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Mexico on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. |
For those of you who think this group broke off from the main church after the 1890 manifesto, you mistaken. I speak from first-hand experience. The people who live in this town have stayed faithful to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to this day.
The group that broke off is a group of dissenters called the "LeBarons". Their community was found farther south. The "Colonia LeBaron" town was specifically established for the purpose of escaping US Laws and practicing polygamy in 1924. Keep in mind, however, that there is no connection between the fundamentalists who lived in LeBaron and the Latter-day Saints who live in Colonia Dublán other than that the fundamentalist group were dissenters. See Ervil_LeBaron; by their fruits ye shall know them.
For those of you who think that the reason for establishment of Colonia Dublán was solely to escape United States laws against polygamy, you're focusing on information that was rather irrelevant at the time of establishment of the colony. If its purpose were only to practice polygamy and escape US laws, then people would have left Mexico and returned after the 1890 manifesto, as new polygamous unions stopped after 1890. People only began to arrive to colonize Dublán in 1885, and Dublán didn't grow to any significant size until 1897 when a train station was established nearby. The colony was far from being decently established by 1890. While it was indeed a safe harbor of sorts for those who already had entered into plural marriage before arriving, the purpose of going there was not to continue to form more plural marriages. People continue to live there to this day, and the main purpose of their living there is not to create polygamous unions, nor has it been since the establishment of Colonia Dublán.
This town is one of several colonies that dotted the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. An (incomplete) list of those colonies was in this article, but has been moved to the Mormon colonies in Mexico article. The purpose for all of those colonies was to simply establish a new colony where LDS people could live. The fact that several colonies happened to bleed into Mexico (a.k.a, "Estados Unidos Mexicanos", or the United Mexican States) has little consequence. See these articles:
Troy Bowman (talk) 07:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
