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Originally Posted by BYUruss
Jodeph Smith had a couple 14 year old wives, and also married a couple women after sending their first husbands away on a mission. So here's the question....do most of you believe that he was called of God to marry what are essentially still children, and other already married women? Or do you think that a better explanation is that nobody is perfect, including JS, and this was just being human? Or was it something else? Having not found out about that stuff until my mission, it's something that I've always wondered about.
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Actually, there were four teens in the span of just one month (17, 17, 14, 19). His second wife (Fanny Alger, age 16 at the time) was essentially an adopted daughter who was working in his house as a caretaker --see
http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org Considering all that, and the propositions to wives of people he sent overseas, I can't believe that was ordered by a God that I believe in.