Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman about the ongoing debate about whether Joseph Smith practiced polygamy.
Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his purported wives, clockwise from top middle: first wife Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; Martha McBride ; Marinda Nancy Johnson ; and Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs .The friends I went to high school with are generally a good barometer for what news, gossip and stories about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are reaching the radar of people who don’t track such things.
In other words, we shouldn’t be surprised when the history of our intimate relationships are not cleanly or clearly documented — even with someone as prominent as Abraham Lincoln.The evidence is sufficient that most historians agree Smith appears to have begun practicing polygamy in earnest after his church relocated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1839. He likely. Those involved in the practice — about 25 families in a city of more than 20,000 — kept the secret for a time, but it eventually leaked out.
The second culprit the Prices fingered was the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. According to the Prices, the quorum was influenced by the followers of Jacobdid. The Prices found evidence that several apostles preached to Cochranites in the early 1830s and converted some of them. The Prices say that the quorum members were themselves converted to polygamy. This photo of Brigham Young with many of his wives is from 1898.
• On May 1, 1843, Clayton writes that he performed a marriage between “J” and “LW,” likely Joseph Smith and Lucy Walker. Later sources indicate the two married that day. Snuffer’s movement embraces a smaller-scale, individualized Mormonism that emphasizes personal charismatic spirituality and rejects most forms of organized authority above eachThere are other types of polygamy deniers as well for whom the belief serves different needs. Snuffer’s followers have largely abandoned the LDS Church.
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