Mormon Church Now Teaching Polygamy to Children: Is it Grooming? | Ep. 1974
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Recently the Mormon Church released a new set of storybooks for children. For the storybook entitled "Doctrine and Covenants Stories" it has released a polygamy section that many feel is extremely harmful to children. Please join us as a Mormon Mom (Alyssa Witbeck) and a Mormon Therapist (Natasha Helfer) discuss their feelings about the likely harm that this section will cause to children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another show Mormon stories podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm your host John DeLinn. |
| 0:04.9 | It's December 16, 2024. |
| 0:07.3 | The Mormon Church has decided to teach polygamy to its children and to its adults. |
| 0:13.5 | It's a crazy time. |
| 0:15.6 | And that's what we're covering today. |
| 0:17.1 | So to kind of give you a tiny bit more explanation, in the recent online, I don't know, |
| 0:24.5 | scriptures slash curriculum, there is a new sort of like cartoon-styled telling, brief telling |
| 0:35.1 | of Joseph Smith's polygamy. |
| 0:56.3 | There's a little photo of it for those joining us visually that tries to kind of communicate to kids the awesomeness and the necessity and the virtues of polygamy, which I'm just going to say at the outset, I don't sit around looking for things to complain about. I'm not a grievance seeker. I'm very happy just to have people tell their |
| 1:04.5 | Mormon stories and like to go home. So like, I'm not looking for news stories to get upset about. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm not looking to nitpick the church. |
| 1:12.6 | Literally, in a million years, I would have never guessed this would happen. |
| 1:16.7 | And to help us today break this down back on Mormon Studios is the Alyssa Whitback. |
| 1:23.1 | Hey, Alyssa. |
| 1:23.7 | Hello. |
| 1:24.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:25.4 | Thanks for being willing to just jump on this one. Of course, yeah, lots to say. |
| 1:29.3 | How's life been lately? |
| 1:30.3 | It's been good. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah? |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, it's been good. |
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