[Elsie]

I hope some of you will read this. It's a pretty fair and in-depth explanation of why the LDS Church practiced polygamy. This is from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

We'd rather read it straight from the source; WITHOUT the spin; thank you.

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THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI

CHAPTER 2

 

  30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
  31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
 

[sevenbak]

Read verse 30 again, spinster... 30: For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people;...