AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
5min chapter
Episode 306 - Warren Jeffs: God’s Chosen People - Part 1
RedHanded
The Mormon Church Modernized and Towed the Line on the Bigamy Question
Even when the Mormon church modernized and towed the line on the Bigamy question, some of them just couldn't let it go. If you don't have three wives, you can't reach the fullness of exaltation in the afterlife. And these moments were not going to give up all of that because of some stupid US law. So offshoots of the faithful went their own way. In the 1920s, six families headed to Short Creek, which is a very remote stretch of land. They married and multiplied, like Easterbunnies. It's quite the shallow gene pool. Some women could have eight or nine pregnancies without ever giving birth to living child. Queen Charlotte
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode