5 questions regarding

that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy with over 30 wives:

(Important note: I define polygamy as marriage to multiple women with whom the man has sexual relations. This is very different than having someone sealed to you in the eternities to create links in a family of God - which is what I believe Joseph was actually doing.)





1. How does a man in the prime of life have 9 children with his wife Emma and yet no children with any of the 30 wives (13 of which claimed 40-50 years later during the times the government was going after the LDS church for polygamy that they had sexual relations with him)? (Brigham Young had 56 children - none born until after Joseph's death)





(See chart below for results of DNA tests.)





2. Why did Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith teach against the practice of polygamy right up to their deaths and Emma Smith and Joseph's son Joseph III say that Joseph never practiced polygamy?





One month and one day before Joseph's death, he said the following:





“What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one.” – Joseph Smith (LDS History of the Church, 6:410–411)





(See other quotes from Joseph below)





Do we really believe that the man chosen to restore the gospel and that was one of the dispensation heads was a liar and a deceiver in regards to polygamy?





3. Why did Joseph Smith sue Chancee L. Higbee on May 24, 1842 under oath in the State of Illinois for slander regarding claims that Joseph was a polygamist? Chancee was a lawyer. Would it make any sense to sue an attorney in the state of Illinois regarding polygamy (which was illegal) for slander where truth is the ultimate defense to the charge of slander? Would Joseph really risk going to jail in order to successfully pretend he wasn't a polygamist?





4. Why were 380 men sent out from Nauvoo in September of 1842 throughout the United States with certificates and affidavits signed by many of Nauvoo's most prominent men and women denying polygamy in order to counteract damage done by Dr. John C. Bennett? Was Dr. Bennett the one lying about polygamy or the prominent men and women who signed the affidavits against what they claimed were false accusations?





5. Modified documents: Why were journals altered to change what Joseph taught against polygamy to make it appear that Joseph was in favor of polygamy? Why was section 101 of the D&C which stated that marriage was only to be between one man and one woman removed when section 132 was added in 1852 - eight years after Joseph Smith's death? Why did Emma say she never saw section 132 even though William Clayton claims she not only saw it but threw it in the fire? How is it that a copy just happened to exist (other than the one supposedly thrown in the fire by Emma) and ended up in Brigham Young's desk drawer many years later? How is it that the altered parts of the journal entry from William Clayton contain some of the exact same words that appear in Section 132? (See modified journal entry here

1835 D&C 101:4"Inasmuch as this church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication, and polygamy: we declare that we believe, that one man should have one wife; and one woman, but one husband, except in case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again."