"things that we will know about after we die "God will explain all". They seemed to live harsh, unfulfilled, isolated lives, yet they defended the practice. Before that, he was compelled to reveal it to me personally, by the Angel threatening him.

You have done this year by year for a whole generation as man counts time. What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. Some of the more credible evidence include: Two LDS scriptures, Jacob 2:24-30 "For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people" and D C (The timing of Joseph Smith's "marriage" to Helen was in May.

Since Young himself admitted that his own "plural marriages" were not legal marriages, that means that no other Mormon "plural marriage" at any time was a legal marriage either. More experienced plural wives would counsel women new to the practice to expect little in the way of a loving relationship from their husbands, that they should give up any emotional attachment and when he came to her household to receive him as she would. Also not mentioned is Joseph's marriages to young girls as young as 14 and to what lengths Joseph went to hide these marriages from his first, and only legal wife, Emma. Also why do so many naive church members believe that the Church changed the practice of polygamy only when the United States made it illegal? It is accurate and unbiased. Presently, a few groups which splintered off from the LDS church, called "Fundamentalists practice polygamy in Utah and nearby states. They are left with a lot of evidence that the prophets and apostles were as wrong as can be on this issue. We are here to-day, gathered together according to the word and law of God and the commandments of God. An essay on Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo was added on 10/22/14 in the topical guide of the LDS. Surely he knows why it was practiced. Broadly speaking, Smith followed the views of his mentor, Francis Hutcheson of the University of Glasgow, who divided moral philosophy into four parts: Ethics and Virtue; Private rights and Natural liberty; Familial rights (called Economics and State and Individual rights (called Politics).

The practice continued after Josephs death in 1844, and was publicly announced in 1852, five years after the Saints arrived in Utah.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith.