The Role of Joseph Smith in the Origin of Polygamy

There has to be some kind of precipitating factor or reason for the creation of these affidavits in the first place They would not have come into existence unless there were someone out there challenging it. It's kind of 50-50 one way or the other I don't know that it means anything when you consider the fact these wouldn't exist unless there had been a reason to create them Yeah, and as we get into it as we go forward So everyone that I had the affidavit of from this point in prior These are all folks who went with the Brighamite sect of Mormonism they would have wanted there to be evidence that Joseph Smith was the originator of polygamy and perpetuated it Now we're