Mormon Church Now Teaching Polygamy to Children: Is it Grooming? | Ep. 1974

Mormon Church Now Teaching Polygamy to Children: Is it Grooming? | Ep. 1974

Recently the Mormon Church released a new set of storybooks for children. For the storybook entitled "Doctrine and Covenants Stories" it has released a polygamy section that many feel is extremely harmful to children.Please join us as a Mormon Mom (Alyssa Witbeck) and a Mormon Therapist (Natasha Helfer) discuss their feelings about the likely harm that this section will cause to children.

Show Notes

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00:05:30 The background and where to find this

00:13:30 Coming clean of their own volition vs the internet forcing them

00:14:54 Obedience is more important than intuition

00:19:09 God condones prophets to be predators

00:21:46 “The Lord commanded plural marriage”

00:26:45 Nowhere does God command polygamy in the Bible

00:32:21 Joseph is devastated for having to live polygamy

00:37:50 How did this happen if these men were called of God?

00:39:25 To claim that Joseph didn’t want to do this

00:43:15 Emma sometimes helped Joseph decide who to marry

00:46:44 Teaching the Twelve Apostles about polygamy

00:50:15 Brigham Young with his first wife

00:52:02 The laws against polygamy

00:52:52 John Dehlin’s polygamous grandparents

00:59:00 The Manifesto and end of polygamy

01:03:20 How sealings work in the Mormon church

01:10:02 This polygamy lesson teach and normalizes to children

01:26:30 Do they want to believe in a God that was okay with all of this?

01:30:50 Quick quiz

01:40:00 Why does all this matter?

01:47:10 Does this qualify as grooming?

01:52:20 Upcoming lessons on plural marriage for 2025


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