FAIR Questions, Unfair Answers: A Response to Sarah Allen and FAIRLDS

Sarah Allen, a senior researcher at FAIR (also known as FAIRLDS, née FAIRMormon), responded to a user question about the evidence for Joseph Smith’s alleged polygamy. In this video, I take a careful look at just how terrible the response was, and in the process give an overview of some of the evidence for Joseph’s monogamy.

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Notes:
Church history records Brigham revising church history: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/2987565f-96fb-470c-88c0-08c3ec43e3fe/0/254

Woodruff’s journal for 11 July 1856: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/ed47e448-2936-4a1d-a4d8-4b5f96a8d1ac/0/133?lang=eng

More on Hyrum’s 8 April antipolygamy speech:
- Thomas Bullock account of Hyrum’s 8 April speech: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/daa151c4-7bae-49d0-8cef-d281a70f1d32/0/32
- Deleted from the history: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-e-1-1-july-1843-30-april-1844/357
- My first video on this speech: https://youtu.be/QxVtJvgvHAs

Published notes of Nauvoo City Council: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revised-minutes-17-june-1844/1

Link to actual High Council minutes: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/e7896b07-224e-4dd8-8790-b7f995838c46/0/13?lang=eng

The Nauvoo Expositor: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-expositor-7-june-1844/1

My video on the Expositor Affidavits: https://youtu.be/DTZ43sPKZa4

Jeremy Hoop on the untrustworthiness of Clayton on polygamy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfWPeqHXwU

Problems with George Laub’s “Journal:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_grbQrx-mU&t=1s

Joseph Robinson’s autobiography/journal: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/b61a941d-fe2b-4f61-bec0-a1557fd14fe6/0/0?lang=eng

Hyrum Smith says that God has not commanded anyone to have more than one wife: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/daa151c4-7bae-49d0-8cef-d281a70f1d32/0/32

Joseph Smith forbids plural wives: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-3-15-july-1843-29-february-1844/123

Hyrum says that having many wives is an abomination: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/e8d44719-6577-4503-86b8-1641367be6b9/0/0