I was reading at http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/JS...y_Timeline.htm ...and came to this part and had to stop,

"Already married, 19 year-old Zina remained" >>>>(<what!?, let me read that again to see if I got that right ?) "Already married, 19 year-old Zina remained conflicted with Smith's polygamy proposal"( Already married?...well Joe you jumping the fence and getting into the neighbors garden again?) "

"Already married, 19 year-old Zina remained until a day in October, apparently, when Joseph sent [her older brother] Dimick to her with a message: an angel with a drawn sword had stood over Smith and told him that if he did not establish polygamy, he would lose "his position and his life." Zina, faced with the responsibility for his position as prophet, and even perhaps his life, finally acquiesced*." They were secretly married within days."

SOURCE: In Sacred Loneliness, page 80-81





* this implied threat of violence is one of the ways a rapist of women gets power over others.