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So Joseph Smith starting to sleep with Fanny Alger in 1831 while she was his servant girl is your idea of "biblical polygamy?"

This deserves expansion. Was it biblical for smith to wife Alger when the revelation and teaching of the church he founded emphatically stressed monogamy? When your own statement of faith claims to follow the laws of the land - yet Smith's marriage to Alger violated Illinois law. Is if biblical for smith to perjure himself by on the record stating that he was only married to one women when at that very moment he was married to at least 11. Was it biblical for him to order the destruction of the Nauvoo expositor when it exposed the practice of polygamy (even though it was still specifically banned in LDS law and canon)?

Exactly. DU, you know the rigorous anti-polygamous statements contained in the Book of Jacob, Book of Mormon. That was Mormon canon for 1831 and D&C 132 wasn't even in print for another 21 years -- and wasn't canonized for a while. How could Smith's lifestyle corrupt the Book of Jacob's precepts; and how could his open lying & covering up this lifestyle be deemed as anything but calling into question his character & integrity?

And don't think we don't see through your attempt to pull out Biblical pro-polygamous OT passages out of de-contextualized hat -- all the while you ignore both the anti-polygamy verses in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

GZ, as usual you have confused facts with your opinion.

All the points you bring up here are explained in my page, in the section titled "Questions about polygamy"

Rather than re-post the whole thing again, just click the link and follow the index to the answer of your choice.