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Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Polygamy/Polyandry Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: "Joseph Smith was married to at least 34 women" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Of those 34 women, 11 of them were married women of other living men" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "Joseph was 37-years-old when he married 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball"
- Response to section: "Among the women was a mother-daughter set and three sister sets" [Work in Progress]
- Response to section: "D&C 132 is unequivocal on the point that polygamy is permitted only 'to multiply and replenish the earth' and 'bear the souls of men'"
Response Section
"Joseph was 37-years-old when he married 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball"
"D&C 132 is unequivocal on the point that polygamy is permitted only 'to multiply and replenish the earth' and 'bear the souls of men'"
==Notes
- [note] Samuel Katich, "A Tale of Two Marriage Systems: Perspectives on Polyandry and Joseph Smith," Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, 2003.