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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
I never knew before that one of their central tenets was that Joseph Smith never introduced polygamy. They held this position until very recently, apparently. Now their historians grudgingly admit that Joseph Smith introduced it and practiced it.
Imagine the gyrations and mental gymnastics they carried out for all those years.
I think the amazing thing is that RLDS exists at all, even its present pathetic watered down form.
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Yes, indeed. In fact, at one point there was a big battle between the LDS and RLDS about whether or not JS practiced polygamy (late 1800's I believe). The LDS folks kept having people in Utah (typically former JS wives) write up avidavits swearing that JS taught polygamy. Kind of ironic that we now downplay that fact. I certainly don't recally any significant mention of polygamy in my tour of Nauvoo a couple of years ago.