My D&C class is allowing students to submit questions anonymously on a google doc for tomorrows lesson on polygamy. What should I ask?

Some of these might out you as having dabbled in the realm "anti-Mormon" literature (known to the rest of the world as "so-called verifiable facts").

Delivered in the style of Steve Martin in Roxanne:

Flippant: Why could 14-year old girls marry Joseph Smith and I can't even date in groups until I'm 16?


Sarcastic: Did Joseph Smith Know that the entire relief society unanimously and officially adopted a written denunciation of polygamy", and published it in the newspaper, in March 1844?


Straight-shooter: What did Joseph Smith mean when he said, "What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers." (May 26, 1866, History of the Church Vol. 6)

Follow-up: Joseph Smith was married to dozens of women and minor-age girls at that time. How was he going to prove other people perjured themselves with respect to his polygamy?


Obscure: In March 1843, Joseph Smith promised Joseph Kingsbury, whose wife and infant son both died a few months before, eternal life with his dead wife and child, if he would have a "pretended" marriage ceremony to Sarah Ann Whitney. Joseph Smith had married Sarah Ann Whitney seven months before the "pretended" marriage in July 1842.

Eternal Life is the greatest gift of God. Why was that gift offered to Brother Kingsbury for participating in a lie?


Smart-ass: "Does Satan win when people think for themselves? When the leaders speak, has the thinking been done?"


Wise guy: What was the oath of the First Penalty of the Aaronic Priesthood? The Second Penalty of the Aaronic Priesthood? Etc.


Two-Step: *I've heard the Jehovah's Witnesses make you get baptized naked. Is there any scriptural basis for doing ordinances naked?"

When did the fully naked in a bathtub washing and annointing temple ordinances stop? Why?


Subtle(ish): "Is the story about Thomas Marsh leaving the church over a dispute about "milk strippings" true? What role do you think his affidavit about the Danites swearing to do whatever Joseph Smith said, "right or wrong"image transcript played in his leaving the church?

If he admits the milk stripping story is not true, ask why it was taught by Brigham Young and repeated since in conference talks and lesson manuals.


Dirty: Joseph Smith's name wouldn't be "Dick", would it?

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