Sandra Tanner helps review a video by LDS scholar, Brian Hales, which acknowledges truth claims about polygamy in the famous CES Letter. Topics addressed include: whether Joseph Smith actually had relations with his polyandrous wives (those already married to other men), Emma’s seeking divorce due to polygamy, and others.
(10/4/2024 – YouTube — Mormon Stories, Ep. 1950)
Further reading:
- “Problems in the LDS Essays on Plural Marriage”
- “Give Brother Joseph a Break?”
- “Sacred Marriage or Secret Affair?”
- “New Joseph Smith Movie: History or Propaganda?”
- “Secret Wives and Concubines”
- “Covering Up Mormon Polygamy”
- Joseph Smith Sermon: Boasting and Denial of Polygamy
- The Strange Marriages of Sarah Ann Whitney to Joseph Smith, The Mormon Prophet, Joseph C. Kingsbury and Heber C. Kimball, by H. Michael Marquardt (PDF)
- Lifting the Veil of Polygamy (video)