- Joseph Smith claiming Helen Mar Kimball for eternity when she was only 14 years old.
- Joseph Smith marrying women without the knowledge of his wife Emma
- The church claiming to end polygamy in 1890 but not really meaning it.
- Joseph Smith tying women’s salvation to their willingness to marry him.
- Joseph Smith marrying women who were married to other men.
- Joseph Smith claiming Heber C. Kimball's wife Vilate for himself and then telling his great friend Heber it was “just a test”.
- D&C 132 saying that if Emma doesn’t accept polygamy “she shall be destroyed”
- Claiming the end of the Law of Moses and yet using Old Testament prophets to justify polygamy.
- The destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor printing press.
- Still claiming in 2017 that Joseph was forced by an angel with a sword to practice polygamy.
- The whitewashing of polygamy over the past 100 years.
- Many women who joined the church in Europe, came to Utah and were forced into polygamy.
- The recent essays on polygamy that make no apologies or claim of human errors.
- The idea that polygamist had “Favorite Wives”.
- That Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball could have any meaningful relationship with 50 wives.
- That church leaders could use their position of authority to force girls to marry them.
- The deliberate lie that polygamy was because there were so many more women than men.
- That women were traded and assigned as wives like cattle.
- That “modern” scripture still says that Joseph Smith can have “ten virgins”.
- The quote by Heber C. Kimball saying that missionaries can’t claim all the pretty women.
- That 19th century missionaries would deliberately teach vulnerable women in Europe to bring home as wives.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Most Problematic Issues of Mormon Polygamy
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