Paper: Removing the Stain of Polygamy from the Restoration (PDF)

 

The following free online resources are available for learning about Joseph Smith and his fight to end the “damned foolish doctrine of polygamy”:

• Online blog “In Defense of Joseph” http://www.defendingjoseph.com/

• Joseph Smith’s Monogamy (PDF)

• Rob Fotheringham’s YouTube presentation, First LDS Polygamist: Joseph or Brigham?

• Rock Waterman's blog post: Why I'm Abandoning Polygamy

• Richard and Pamela Price’s 3 (soon to be 4) volume series Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy (available online for free, or paperback copies may be purchased)

• Denver Snuffer's paper, The Restoration's Shattered Promises and Great Hope

• Denver Snuffer podcast, The Foolish and the Wise

• Hemlock Knots interview of Whitney Horning, author of Joseph Smith Revealed: A Faithful Telling

• Enid DeBarthe’s thesis proving that Brigham Young was the author of LDS Doctrine and Covenants 132 (the polygamy revelation). Read it online as a PDF or at the web site

• Times and Seasons newspaper archive (on the top banner click on “Library,” in drop down menu click on “Church History”, then on “Times and Seasons”)

• Digitized affidavit Joseph assembled and sent with over 300 Elder’s throughout the United States to defend his name and the Church from the “crime of polygamy”

• 1835 Doctrine and Covenants Section 101, “Statement on Marriage”

• Joseph Smith’s original October 5, 1843, journal entry stating that he forbid polygamy

  • LDS Church’s (Brigham Young’s) edited version of this same journal entry