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Polyandry: Women married to more than one husband
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Perhaps nothing is less understood than Joseph Smith's sealings to women already married, because the evidence supports conflicting interpretations.
—Kathryn M. Daynes[1]
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