1555: Mormon Polygamy Apologetics w/ Sandra Tanner Pt. 1 - A Mormon Scoops Special!

The one and only Sandra Tanner joins Mormon Scoops to address a recent episode of followHIM podcast, featuring BYU Professors Hank Smith and John Bytheway, and Church Women's Historian Kate Holbrook.

Join Carah, John, and Gerardo as we discuss what's left out of the Church curriculum about Joseph’s polygamy, the "New and Everlasting Covenant," and how that’s reinterpreted today.

We also take calls from our amazing viewers from the globe. We’re so thankful to have Sandra join us for this important episode of Mormon Scoops.

Follow along with textual references to Doctrine and Covenants 132: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/s...

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Show Notes:

"Doctrine and Covenants 129-132 with Dr. Kate Holbrook," on followHIM podcast
https://bit.ly/3L6uMSE

followHIM podcast with Hank Smith and John Bytheway
https://bit.ly/3qxdJ4i

"BYU professor [Hank Smith] calls gay student a Book of Mormon term associated with anti-Christ," by Courtney Tanner, Salt Lake Tribune, May 14, 2021
https://bit.ly/3IBRVLj

Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults: A Face-to-Face Event with Elder Cook (and with Kate Holbrook)
https://bit.ly/3wyWwvj

Kate Holbrook laughs while describing Joseph Smith's polygamy
https://bit.ly/3D6U80b

D&C101 as it appeared until 1835 when it was replaced by D&C132
https://bit.ly/3IBrwNy

Times and Seasons denial of polygamy published in September 1842
https://bit.ly/3JBWKW8

The sole edition of the Nauvoo Expositor, June 17, 1844, which exposed Joseph's teaching and practice of polygamy
https://bit.ly/3wAsveK

The Godmakers: A Shocking Expose of What the Mormon Church Really Believes by Ed Decker
Book: https://amzn.to/36MFP4R
Film: https://bit.ly/3qxgFOK

"Kingdom Come," by David Van Biema, Time, June 24, 2001 (in which Gordon B. Hinckley says the Church doesn't teach/emphasize that God was once a man or that men will become gods, ruling their own planets which they populate with their own seed)
https://bit.ly/3Ni0KNI

Utah Lighthouse Ministry
https://bit.ly/3IDAgTx

Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
https://amzn.to/3ICZaSY

Timecodes:
00:00:00 Introduction and opening remarks
00:10:56 Joseph ordered other men to engage in polygamy with American Indian women; Joseph was already married to 22 women 12 years before the polygamy revelation
00:28:13 Joseph's affairs predated the sealing power; D&C132 wasn't added to the Scriptures until 1876
00:37:27 Apologists emphasize that polygamy was really hard---on the men
00:44:57 Framing polygamy as a "restoration" of "the new and everlasting covenant," which you will be damned if you don't follow
00:53:48 The Church has redefined "new and everlasting covenant" to refer to the gospel, when it was plainly a threat to Emma if she wouldn't accept Joseph's infidelity
01:00:41 D&C132 says that "only one man on the earth at a time" can hold the power to perform sealings, but today, many men are allowed to perform them
01:07:28 How much did the public, the members, and potential converts know about polygamy, and when did they find out about it?
01:12:21 D&C132 nullified all marriages not sealed in the temple, effectively denying all marriages not directly approved by Joseph
01:13:15 Mormonism's "sad heaven" and the modern problem of a doctrine that only married people go to heaven, where unmarried people will wait on them for all eternity
01:29:11 Getting your own planet and having spirit babies for all eternity is set up in D&C 132 (so is murder, indirectly)
01:41:07 Verse 20 contradicts modern apologetics that unmarried people will be happy in the afterlife and can attain the highest degree of glory
01:49:53 Can you be forcibly sealed to someone in the afterlife? If you divorce in this life or are married to a non-member, can you still get to Mormon heaven?
02:00:15 The (selective and pretty racist) restoration of all things
02:09:50 Audience call-in
02:26:10 Closing remarks

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