Testing 1, 2, 3, testing 1, 2, 3, this is Radio Free Mormon, on the air, broadcasting

behind Enemy Lines, tonight's episode, no man, that's not history.

We are living in a strange and interesting time, even as the LDS Church becomes more

transparent about its history, including Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy.

There is a growing number of people within the Church, or people who used to be members

of the Church, and by that I mean the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the

Mormons, who are arguing against the Church's attempts to be more transparent.

Specifically, what they're arguing about is that Joseph Smith did not, repeat did not,

practice polygamy. This was a conspiracy that was placed upon Joseph Smith by ill-designing

men and women, who got together to accuse him of polygamy even though he was completely innocent

of any such act or teaching. Those people are sometimes called the polygamy deniers.

Now that doesn't mean that they think that polygamy never happened because they certainly

think that polygamy happened with Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball and a number of other people,

both in Na'avu, as well as out West. But specifically, they deny the idea that Joseph Smith himself

taught and practiced polygamy. So when I use the term polygamy denier in this podcast, that is what

I mean. And what we're finding is that these polygamy deniers seem to be proliferating both inside

the Church and outside the Church. And one of those people who is inside the Church, at least for

now, who is denying that Joseph Smith practice polygamy is a lady named Michelle Stone.

She has a podcast called 132 problems with polygamy. And when she says 132 problems, I think that

what she's talking about specifically there is a reference to section 132 in which is set forth

the commandment from God to Joseph Smith to practice polygamy. Of course, because they do not believe

that Joseph Smith practice polygamy, they do not believe that this was a real revelation that

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