LDS Church acknowledges Joseph Smith's polygamy for the first time

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/its-official-mormon-founder-had-up-to-40-wives.html?_r=0


supposedly, all the youngins Googling things is to blame: "The church’s disclosures, in a series of essays online, are part of an effort to be transparent about its history at a time when church members are increasingly encountering disturbing claims about the faith on the Internet."


there's basically no end to the amount of "disturbing" information that can be found that more or less falsifies official LDS doctrine, and since the only intra-LDS hermeneutic I've encountered is straightforward-literalist (the better theological minds split off/were excommunicated a long time ago), it's hard to see a concrete place where this will end.

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Is a 14 year old wife really a sexual predator in the old west? I feel like it would be more commonplace, though the harem would not be.

not in and of itself, but in this case Smith used his cult of personality to threaten people with eternal damnation if they would not hand over their wives/daughters.