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26: Joseph Smith's Plural Marriage Proposals Part 1

LDS Discussions - Mormon Truth Claims Examined

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Is It Legal for a 16 Year Old to Marry Joseph Smith?

The church will want to say that it was legal for a 16 year old. If if God's in charge, then the question is, is it ethical and moral? I think that needs to be. Well, and they want to say it's legal. But it really wasn't legal because even then it's a polygamous marriage. That was illegal. And so this is just kind of, you know, the institutions of the Lucy Walker proposal. Yeah. So we covered at the beginning of this episode some of the patterns I found. We're not talking about it wasn't common for an older man in his thirties to marry a 14 year old or 15 year old. No

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