The LDS Church publishes cartoons to teach children about 19th-century polygamy.
Candidly explaining Mormon ism’s complicated experience with polygamy to adults requires nuance, context and care. Introducing it to children can be even trickier, if not nearly impossible.
In this image from the illustrated “Doctrine and Covenants Stories,” Jane Manning embraces Emma Smith. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began digitally publishing the illustrated “Doctrine and Covenants Stories” in December 2024.The illustrated chapter on plural marriage begins with church founder Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saint leaders’ initial reluctance to take additional wives, followed by their ultimate “obedience” to what Smith said was a “commandment from the Lord.
Men usually have one wife, but “sometimes the Lord commanded his people to be in marriages of one man and more than one woman,” the chapter says. “... The Lord told Joseph that his people should only be in plural marriages if commands it.” A scene from a cartoon released by the church to teach children about the faith’s history of polygamy shows church founder Joseph Smith praying. The panel reads, "A few years later, the Lord told Joseph to marry other women. Joseph didn’t want to marry other wives. But he knew it was a commandment from the Lord. When Joseph asked a woman to marry him, he told her to pray about it. He wanted her to know from the Lord that it was right.
In 1890, God told then-church President Wilford Woodruff that men should have only one wife, the explanation says, and that remains the policy today. ‘Mormon Land’: Historians discuss poet Eliza Snow, the plural wife of prophets who fought for polygamy, women
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