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Brigham Young's statements regarding polygamy
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- Question: Did Brigham Young and Joseph Smith say that polygamists were allowed to go beyond normal bounds of social interaction?
- Question: Did Brigham Young boast about his ability to get more wives even though he was married to 50-60 women?
- Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
- Question: Why did Brigham Young say that women "have no right to meddle in the affairs of the Kingdom of God"?
- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist?
Question: Did Brigham Young and Joseph Smith say that polygamists were allowed to go beyond normal bounds of social interaction?
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- Question: Did Brigham Young and Joseph Smith say that polygamists were allowed to go beyond normal bounds of social interaction?
- Joseph’s point is clear—men, like Brigham, who have reached a certain degree of faithfulness may be asked to do even more difficult things
- Brigham was thus past the bounds because he had done all that God required and more, not because he would violate moral limits
- Brigham sees the matter as a command that he does not wish to fulfill—he would prefer to be dead—but that God confirms as his will
- Further evidence: Heber C. Kimball
Question: Did Brigham Young boast about his ability to get more wives even though he was married to 50-60 women?
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- Question: Did Brigham Young boast about his ability to get more wives even though he was married to 50-60 women?
- The references do not support the claims
- Journal of Discousces 5:210
- Journal of Discourses 8:178
Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
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- Question: Why did Emma Smith and Brigham Young dislike one another?
- The animosity between Brigham Young and Emma had multiple grounds: personal, religious, and financial
- Brigham also doubtless considered Emma dishonest and a liar because she continued to insist that her husband had never taught the doctrine of plural marriage
- Brigham and Emma did not agree on the disposition of Joseph's estate
Question: Why did Brigham Young say that women "have no right to meddle in the affairs of the Kingdom of God"?
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- Question: Why did Brigham Young say that women "have no right to meddle in the affairs of the Kingdom of God"?
- Brigham's intent has been distorted
- The author relies on presentism, since Brigham and virtually all of his contemporaries (men and women) likely had attitudes about women's roles which would strike us as "sexist"
Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist?
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- Question: Did Brigham Young believe that one could not enter the Celestial Kingdom unless they were a polygamist?
- Wilford Woodruff: "President Young said there would be men saved in the Celestial Kingdom of God with one wife with Many wives & with No wife at all"
- Wilford Woodruff: President Young...said a Man may Embrace the Law of Celestial Marriage in his heart & not take the Second wife & be justified before the Lord
Brigham Young and plural marriage
Summary: It is claimed that the Church's manual, The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, attempts to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife.
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- Question: Does Church manual, The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, attempt to "hide history" by portraying Brigham Young (a well-known polygamist) as having only one wife?
- Question: What does The Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young say about Brigham's wives?
Brigham Young 8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
Summary: Notes on BRIGHAM YOUNG's Unpublished Sermon of 8 October 1861.
Joseph Smith's Polygamy: "Brigham Young Seeks a Plural Wife", by Brian C. Hales