He explained his reason. Are you 150 years old, or do you mean “see” in some other sense of “it’s how I feel so it must be true”?
Otherwise, you could present your first-hand accounts of mormon marriage in the 1800s, and explain how he got it wrong.
Judging only by the description he gave, and what we know about FLDS, they are remarkably different.
Well, I suggest that you ask FReeper Sentinel, who’s the real expert here, based upon his personal experience within the Mormon bishoporic and his access to the official Mormon histories.
Yeah, coming into this discussion late, but it is obvious from the many first-hand testimonies of those who were forced into marriages who tried to leave with their families, only some of whom survived (the rest being killed), that what happened in 1860’s and 70’s Utah among the LDS are extremely similar to what is happening now in Texas. In fact, it was worse considering the LDS removed themselves from the US so that they could practice their unconstitutional marriages and there was no one to turn to for relief when someone did want to escape the situation.