Top 10 Issues w/ Polygamy

1. Fanny Alger a "plural wife" before sealing keys even restored
2. Hiding from Emma & Community
-D&C 132 says consent needs to be given from 1st wife
-Disturbing episode with Rollins sisters (as admitted in new book "Saints")
-Emma 23rd wife sealed to Joseph
-Secret letter to Sarah
-Got people (many of whom were involved in polygamy) to sign an affidavit that there was no polygamy being practiced)
3. Coercion
-Threat of destruction
-Promise of exaltation
-Using influence of a brother
4. Polyandry
-D&C 132 says plural wives need to be virgins
-3 of marriages while husbands sent on missions
5. Our 11th Article of Faith says we believe in following the law of the land
-Polygamy was against the law
6. Teenage Brides
-Why necessary a 14 year old when Joseph was 37?
-Proposed to a 12 year-old
-2 of them he had taken in as adopted daughters before he later married them
7. Nauvoo Expositor
8. Many issues with D&C 132
9. Prophets & apostles didn't follow their own revelation to end polygamy in 1890
-Hinckley said we did end it though
10. Polygamy still exists although we said we abandoned it
-In 60 minutes interview Hinckley said it's not doctrinal and we don't believe in it/practice it
-D&C 132 hasn't been taken out
-Our prophet is technically an eternal polygamist
-Many taught it was essential for exaltation but warrants excommunication now

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