polygamy

Reason #175: Joseph Smith’s Teenage Wives

Joseph Smith's teenage wives are well known, but the claim to 'being normal back then' has been refuted and is…

13 years ago

Reason #162: The Mental Gymnastics of Anticipating Polygamy

As a young Mormon woman I believed that I should prepare myself for plural marriage (the mainstream LDS church does…

14 years ago

Reason #161: Fanny Alger

On an ex-Mormon discussion board recently, the question was posed: What was the tipping point that caused you to leave…

14 years ago

Reason #154: Joseph Smith’s Polygamous Marriages Produced No Children

When I was a Mormon, I was taught that Joseph Smith had only one wife, Emma Hale Smith. I have…

14 years ago

Reason #109: Polygamy for Polygamists in Mormon Temples

Mormons continue polygamous temple rites for Mormon fundamentalists By Helen Radkey                                                                            September 29, 2009 More than a hundred years ago,…

15 years ago

Reason #96: Modern Polygamy justified by Joseph Smith’s teachings

Irene Spencer, author ofShattered Dreams:  My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife pointed out that based on the teachings of the…

15 years ago

Reason #94: Timing of Polygamy Revelations in D&C

The revelation commanding polygamy was not announced to the LDS Church as a whole until 1852, eight years after the…

15 years ago

Reason #93: Rewriting Biblical history to fit LDS doctrine

Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants purports to be God’s explanation of why ancient prophets were allowed to have…

15 years ago

Reason #50: The Book of Mormon and Polygamy

  Probably one of the hottest areas of controversy rages around the Book of Mormon"'s teachings on polygamy. Those unfamiliar…

15 years ago

Reason #46 — Big Love and the Introduction of Polygamy into American Culture

  Big Love, indeed.  Mormonism, in all its incarnations, institutionalized what many people see as the inevitable successor to legalized…

15 years ago