Concerning "LDS is ready to confront history questions" (Tribune, Jan. 31), I highly recommend Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery. This biography of Joseph Smith’s first wife, Emma, tells of her valiant effort against Smith’s polygamy, womanizing and what today’s laws would call pedophilia.
Smith and his fellow Mormon male polygamists disbanded Emma’s highly successful Relief Society to prevent her from speaking out to other women about plural marriages. The Relief Society was inactive for 10 years.
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Joseph frequently abandoned the often-pregnant Emma and their young children while he went on long trips to promote Mormonism, run from the law or to meet up with teenage girls. Newt Gingrich would be a better role model.
Ted Ottinger
Taylorsville
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