Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Entering into plural marriage

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Entering into plural marriage

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• Joseph Smith's marriages to young women
• Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife
• Did Joseph Smith coerce women to marry him?
• Mormon women refusing offers of plural marriage
• Does Joseph Smith's lack of children through polygamy contradict the commandment to "multiply and replenish the earth"?

Joseph Smith's marriages to young women

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• Question: Why was Joseph Smith sealed to young women?
• Question: Was Joseph Smith a "serial practitioner of statutory rape?"

1. REDIRECT Fanny Alger was Joseph Smith's first plural wife

Did Joseph Smith coerce women to marry him?

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• Question: Were plural wives forced into the marriage?
• Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal?
• Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences?
• Question: Did Joseph claim that an angel threatened him with a "drawn sword" or "flaming sword" if a woman refused to marry him?
• Question: Were women "locked in a room" in order to convince them to accept plural marriage?

Mormon women refusing offers of plural marriage

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• Question: Did any woman suffer consequences for turning down Joseph's proposal?
• Question: Were women put under "tremendous pressure" to accept a proposal of plural marriage?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences?
• Question: How many Mormon women refused offers of plural marriage?

1. REDIRECT Joseph Smith and children through plural marriage