Smith's methods with women...

Smith had his own highly questionable methods of getting females to say yes to his proposals from 1841-1844.

Claiming to possess the religious "keys" to "bind" or "loose" on earth and in heaven is a power that seems to have made him feel increasingly invincible before God.
In January 1842, he told seventeen year old Martha Brotherton after she hesitated to accept Brigham Young's offer of being his plural wife: "Just go ahead, and do as Brigham wants.. I know this is lawful and right before God.. I have the keys of the kingdom, and whatever I bind on earth is bound in heaven, and whatever I loose on earth is loosed in heaven."

Martha not only declined the offer, but published her story in the July 15, 1842 St. Louis Bulletin.


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