I take it you must be RLDS, believing Brigham Young introduced polygamy and not Smith?
No I am an atheist. Joseph Smith clearly introduced polygamy, but you might be starting to close in on the truth. Emma is the reason that I am confident that that Joseph Smith never practiced polygamy.
That and the glaring lack of any DNA evidence.
Wow! An Atheist Conservative! Talk about an oxymoron!
So now you expect me to believe that Joseph Smith introduced polygamy but didn't practice it himself, despite the LDS historians claiming otherwise and the numerous accounts of the marriages?
Emma ran some of his wives out of the house. So Smith may not practiced polygamy as much as he would have liked, but it sounds like he was practicing it, which is why Emma ran them out.
DNA testing doesn't prove Smith wasn't a polygamist, it may just prove that he wasn't a very fertile polygamist.
What little I've read indicates that only 5 of the 12 children believed to be Smith's have been DNA tested. And the testing only works on male children. So the only thing DNA testing has proved so far is that 5 males that were thought to be his, aren't.
Oh?
ELIZA might claim otherwise!
Then why did 'GOD" threathen EMMA to FORGIVE her husband his 'sins'? [D&C 132:56]