Felix Bravo’s Weblog

They are called “a renegade Mormon sect,” the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which had its beginning in the 1930s. “Renegade” because while the mainstream Mormon Church renounced polygamy in 1890, they still cling to their doctrine that a man has a God-sanctioned right to marry several women in order to go to heaven.

But if someone thought that the FLDS is the only renegade group, he is mistaken. It is in fact a renegade among renegade Mormon churches, which all had their beginning with a renegade Methodist named Joe Smith. That doctrine of plural wives had its beginning with Smith, their founder. A website says Joseph Smith had 34 wives, 11 of whom were also married, or had been married, to his associates or brothers in the faith. Joseph’s first wife was Emma Hale. But Emma was not to be the only, nor was she meant to be the last. Joe was even married to his brother Don Carlos Smith’s wife, his seventh, named Agnes Coolbrith. On the day he was wedded to her, Joe wrote in his diary, “Truly this is a day long to be remembered by the saints of the Last Days; a day in which the God of heaven has began to restore the ancient order of his Kingdom…all things are concurring together to bring about the completion of the fullness of the gospel.” Having a harem to feed his lust for women he called “the fullness of the gospel”! Think about it!

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