The Evidence that Joseph Smith was a Polygamist: ML: 131

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

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There is a raging debate within Mormon circles where those folks who are determined to maintain belief in the Prophet Joseph Smith but who abhor polygamy and the Church as ran by Brigham Young and after have found ways to dismiss the standard evidence that Mormonism’s founder was a polygamist. They interpret the evidence as… Read More »The Evidence that Joseph Smith was a Polygamist: ML: 131

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we proudly bring to you...
0:10.0	MormonISER!
0:13.0	LIVE!
0:17.0	Shut up and sit down!
0:30.0	Good evening, well, the gang's all here, right at the outset.
0:47.0	Look at that. I miss the applause, by the way.
0:52.0	Oh, thank you, thank you. I look forward to the applause every week, and that was real applause.
0:57.0	So, this is going to be a ton of fun. We've got Brian Buchanan, Lindsey Hansen Park on the show with RFM and myself.
1:04.0	Last week, I'll just remind callers, we'll jump into this pretty quick, and I'll check with you guys if you have anything before we start.
1:10.0	But last week, one of the callers intimated that they weren't bothered by the data as much, because they didn't believe that Joseph Smith was a polygamist.
1:21.0	And I took that as a challenge, so I decided one week from just now, or basically a couple hours, less than a week or more than a week.
1:29.0	But I decided that we would go ahead and take on the challenge of trying to show that Joseph Smith was a polygamist.
1:35.0	And I have spent significant amount of time in the last week, probably somewhere in the range of about 50 to 55 hours or so.
1:45.0	Putting all of this together, deep thanks to all of you, each of you added in a lot of things that will come up in tonight's conversation.
1:53.0	Brian, I just want to give you a special thanks for some documents that I did not have access to.
1:58.0	I got a bunch of them, but I was missing three or four, and you helped me get those last few, so I appreciate that very much.
2:04.0	Anything from you guys before we start any other notes or things you guys want to say before we kick it off.
2:10.0	I just want to say thanks for having me. This is a topic that matters a lot to me. This is a growing conspiracy theory.
2:18.0	And I call it that because it is one, not because I want to diminish people that latch onto this, but because it is a product of a centuries worth of polygamy denying that was meant to protect the reputation of Joseph Smith.
2:37.0	And thereby, you know, throwing the reputations of many women under the bus.
2:43.0	And so it's something that I think that needs to be corrected. And when we talk about history, history is complex and messy and complicated.
2:51.0	And it's very compelling and easy to latch on to stories that make things simpler. And this, of course, is a messy story.
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