alanmolstad
03-03-2016, 11:19 AM
http://www.equip.org/article/warren-jeffs-and-his-prophecies-from-prison/
"Whereas about a third of Smith’s wives were teens as young as fourteen, a total of twenty-seven wives married by Jeffs were under the age of seventeen. According to LDS researcher Todd Compton, “sexual attraction was an important part of the motivation for Smith’s polygamy”;2 the same could be said for Jeffs as well."
The footnote "In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 11."
"Whereas about a third of Smith’s wives were teens as young as fourteen, a total of twenty-seven wives married by Jeffs were under the age of seventeen. According to LDS researcher Todd Compton, “sexual attraction was an important part of the motivation for Smith’s polygamy”;2 the same could be said for Jeffs as well."
The footnote "In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 11."