" 3. Bigamy.
Some of these women were already married to other men. Follow the links on FamilySearch! Find out about their other husbands.

Todd Compton's book In Sacred Loneliness is a biography of each of the wives, and shows how they often had to live a double life.

Todd Compton is not an anti-Mormon!

He is one of the editors of “Mormonism and Early Christianity” by Hugh Nibley – the most famous defender of the church.
It was published by FARMS – the part of BYU that researches the Book of Mormon and defends the church.
He contributed to the “Encyclopedia of Mormonism,” which was approved by the apostles.
He received the Best Article Award from the Mormon History ***ociation (an organisation made up mostly of faithful descendants of pioneers).

Compton is a faithful member who just happens to be a historian.

Apologists - those who defend the church - now admit that Joseph Smith married other men's wives. One of the best known apologist organizatioons, FAIR, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, defends the practice here: http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/polyandry.pdf "

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