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Year of Polygamy Podcast

Episode 61: Polygamy and Abuse Intro

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8821 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay speaks with Kristy Money, author of a recent oped discussing LDS.org’s essays on polygamy and how they can contribute to grooming and predatory behavior. Links mentioned in this podcast: FAIR Mormon’s take on these issues. Brian Hales’ views on […]

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0:00.0

One, two, three, go.

0:09.6

Feminist, Mormon.

0:13.0

Housewives.

0:18.8

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.

0:22.8

I'm your host, Lindsay, bringing you another episode in the Year of Plygamy, where we

0:26.5

try to understand the practice of Mormon plural marriage.

0:30.5

And today is a special episode where we've talked about going out of order, and we're

0:35.7

going to jump back and forth into time with this piece because I brought on a really good friend of mine.

0:42.7

Her name is Christy Money.

0:43.8

Christy, can you say hello?

0:45.9

Hi, happy to be here.

0:47.5

Thanks for coming.

0:48.3

This is about the third time, second or third time we've tried this because Christy lives in rural Georgia and it's really

0:57.0

hard to get an internet connection.

0:59.0

So she is trekking out to the library to talk to you.

1:03.2

And Christy is part of the Ordain Women Executive Board.

1:08.2

And she recently wrote an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune about the new church

1:14.8

polygamy essays that came out. It's currently November 2014, and the church just recently

1:19.8

published some essays on plural marriage. Christy wrote an op-ed saying that she was disappointed with some of the language use because it could potentially contribute to increases of sexual abuse and molestation and grooming.

1:39.4

And it was a very controversial op-ed. I think it was fantastic, but she, I think that, what is it now for

1:47.1

comments on the trip? Is it over 3,000? Oh, I don't know about that, yeah. Yeah, so it's like

1:54.8

tons and tons of comments, and it sparked this huge discussion. And so I brought Christy on to

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