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Polygamy book

Polygamy Book (draft chapters), a work by author: Gregory L. Smith

Polygamy Book draft chapters written by Gregory L. Smith

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• Initiation of the practice of plural marriage
• Introduction of eternal marriage
• Did Joseph Smith have a long history of "womanizing"?
• Joseph Smith's performance of marriages in Ohio
• Age of polygamous wives
• Children of polygamous marriages
• Polyandry: Women married to more than one husband
• John C. Bennett

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Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?

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• Question: What do we know about Joseph Smith's "polyandrous" sealings or plural marriages?
• The doctrine of sealing and adoption
• Evaluating each polyandrous marriage
• Group 1: Women with non-member spouses
• Observations about the first group
• Group 2: Women with non-faithful LDS spouses
• Observations about the second group
• Group 3: Women with faithful LDS spouses
• Observations about the third group
• Group 4: Women likely separated/divorced from their first husbands (i.e., pseudopolyandry)
• A hypothesis—why so many early polyandrous marriages?
• Further evidence against sexual polyandry
• Nauvoo witnesses did not try to justify sexual polyandry
• Nauvoo detractors likewise say nothing about sexual polyandry
• Evidence from the "Temple Lot" case of non-consummation of polyandrous marriages
• Would polyandrous testimony have been harmful to the Church, and so avoided?
• Conclusion

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