News that the LDS Church has now publicly acknowledged founder Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriage to more than thirty women—one as young as fourteen years old—puts me in mind of a conversation I had one rainy September night with a bright and dedicated young Mormon woman at a feminist retreat in the woods of New Hampshire.
She was twenty-five years old, with a funky assymetrical haircut, a hipster plaid flannel shirt, and an aura of earnest intelligence and faithful dedication I could feel in my bones.
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