35: The Shadow of Joseph's Polygamy & its Ongoing Institutional Reverberations
Latter Day Struggles
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Justification for for Polly Andre Iii
A compton speculates that many of these men did not know what they were signing up for in these ceilings or plural marriages. A higher priesthood trumps a lower priesthood in the taking of wives, he writes. So as you can see, there was some self justification there, that somehow he was entitled to her from before the world was and therefore he could take her. The belief is that most of them very likely were complicit.
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