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Joseph Smith's Approach to Contracting Additional Marriages
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Joseph Smith's Approach to Contracting Additional Marriages
Some have questions regarding Joseph Smith's approach to contracting additional marriages and what it may say about his motives for introducing plural marriage.
- Did those that entered plural marriage only do so because Joseph Smith told them to?
- Were plural wives forced into the marriage?
- How many Mormon women refused offers of plural marriage?
- Did any women suffer consequences for turning down Joseph Smith’s proposals?
- Were women put under “tremendous pressure” to accept a proposal of plural marriage?
- Did Joseph Smith give a woman only one day to decide about entering a plural marriage, and would refusal mean terrible consequences?* Did Joseph Smith claim that an angel threatened him with a drawn sword or flaming sword if a woman refused to marry him?
- Were women “locked in a room” to get them to accept a proposal of plural marriage?