Smith took at least 29 wives within 23 months!

10. Here's the Bottom line in all of this, upon a review of Smith's "marriage history" in the early 1840s alone:

Smith wasn't into big families...there's even a passage in the Lds Doctrine & Covenants -- a "revelation" Joseph Smith said he rec'd in 1833: "Let your families be small..." (D&C 90:25)

Actually, Smith was into accumulating bed partners. This reality stares the careful historian right in the face: Imagine you want to take on almost 30 wives in 23 months. What kind of time do you need to exhibit with each one to develop a proper approach to even asking them to marry? What kind of honeymoon time do you need? What kind of first-year commitment time do you need to develop that relationship? Smith's pace was 29 additional partners between Dec. 1841 and Nov. 1843. And just because things were less "culturally so" than what is now, doesn't mean romance or marital focus was totally AWOL in the 1840s.

Smith's pace alone for accumulating partners shows abuse of power, not concern for these women. Not concern for their future motherhood; just how they could serve his "bedhoood."

Bah!

All you gots are FACTS; while we Mormons have FEELINGS!

--MormonDude(When would be a good time for a couple of our clean cut young folks to stop by your home and more fully explain the Restored Gospel® to you and your loving family?)