Mormon Church Now Teaching Polygamy to Children: Is it Grooming? | Ep. 1974

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Recently the Mormon Church released a new set of storybooks for children. For the storybook entitled "Doctrine and Covenants Stories" it has released a polygamy section that many feel is extremely harmful to children.Please join us as a Mormon Mom (Alyssa Witbeck) and a Mormon Therapist (Natasha Helfer) discuss their feelings about the likely harm that this section will cause to children.

Show Notes

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00:05:30 The background and where to find this

00:13:30 Coming clean of their own volition vs the internet forcing them

00:14:54 Obedience is more important than intuition

00:19:09 God condones prophets to be predators

00:21:46 “The Lord commanded plural marriage”

00:26:45 Nowhere does God command polygamy in the Bible

00:32:21 Joseph is devastated for having to live polygamy

00:37:50 How did this happen if these men were called of God?

00:39:25 To claim that Joseph didn’t want to do this

00:43:15 Emma sometimes helped Joseph decide who to marry

00:46:44 Teaching the Twelve Apostles about polygamy

00:50:15 Brigham Young with his first wife

00:52:02 The laws against polygamy

00:52:52 John Dehlin’s polygamous grandparents

00:59:00 The Manifesto and end of polygamy

01:03:20 How sealings work in the Mormon church

01:10:02 This polygamy lesson teach and normalizes to children

01:26:30 Do they want to believe in a God that was okay with all of this?

01:30:50 Quick quiz

01:40:00 Why does all this matter?

01:47:10 Does this qualify as grooming?

01:52:20 Upcoming lessons on plural marriage for 2025

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another show Mormon stories podcast.
0:03.9	I'm your host John DeLinn.
0:04.9	It's December 16, 2024.
0:07.3	The Mormon Church has decided to teach polygamy to its children and to its adults.
0:13.5	It's a crazy time.
0:15.6	And that's what we're covering today.
0:17.1	So to kind of give you a tiny bit more explanation, in the recent online, I don't know,
0:24.5	scriptures slash curriculum, there is a new sort of like cartoon-styled telling, brief telling
0:35.1	of Joseph Smith's polygamy.
0:56.3	There's a little photo of it for those joining us visually that tries to kind of communicate to kids the awesomeness and the necessity and the virtues of polygamy, which I'm just going to say at the outset, I don't sit around looking for things to complain about. I'm not a grievance seeker. I'm very happy just to have people tell their
1:04.5	Mormon stories and like to go home. So like, I'm not looking for news stories to get upset about.
1:09.8	I'm not looking to nitpick the church.
1:12.6	Literally, in a million years, I would have never guessed this would happen.
1:16.7	And to help us today break this down back on Mormon Studios is the Alyssa Whitback.
1:23.1	Hey, Alyssa.
1:23.7	Hello.
1:24.4	Thank you for having me.
1:25.4	Thanks for being willing to just jump on this one. Of course, yeah, lots to say.
1:29.3	How's life been lately?
1:30.3	It's been good.
1:31.3	Yeah?
1:32.3	Yeah, it's been good.
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