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Date: April 20, 2014 07:18PM
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/20/blood_vows_joseph_smith_mormonism_and_the_invention_of_american_polygamy/"In the last eighteen months of his life, Joseph Smith introduced the Mormon faithful to the Old Testament doctrine of polygamy. Everyone, including Brigham Young and Joseph’s wife Emma, hated “plural wifery,” which ignited the rebellion that resulted in Smith’s death. In short order, Joseph married his friend’s wives, friends’ daughters, his wife’s maids — and even a woman he first met as a credulous twelve-year-old, spellbound by his “golden Bible…”