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LDS Apologist Van Hale
Van Hale hosts his own Salt Lake area radio program called "Mormon Miscellaneous."
On June 12th, 2005 Mr. Hale's defended his statemement regarding Mormon
Polygamy.
Van
Hale
Radio Program June 12th, 2005
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Van Hale's
statement regarding Joseph Smith's polygamy from September 2004:
"In my
forty years of looking very closely at polygamy, it's been a subject
that has been of some interest to me, there's not a single instance
where I have encountered what, uh, the speculations that have been presented,
uh, far and wide throughout the history of the LDS faith about polygamy,
that polygamy was about, uh, providing a promiscuous sexual uh, opportunity,
uh, increase, uh, sexual opportunities to Joseph Smith and
other polygamists, that is simply not, well, there are those that say
Joseph Smith wanted to have sex with a number of different women so
this was the reason for it."
"But
the fact is, all of the teaching and doctrine and philosophy
and theology about polygamy had to do, uh, all ran along different lines.
And to tell you the conclusion that it was a sexual matter in their
minds rather than a matter of having to do with, uh, a restoration of
an ancient practice, and uh, the opportunity of providing, uh, a good,
uh, husband for, uh, a number of different, for, uh, a larger body of,
uh, good women. To take a different point of view is simply speculational."
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Responses to Van Hale's Statement
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Public Responses to Van Hale's Public Statements
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of Hale with a Caller During his Polygamy Broadcast
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Van
Hale Explains his Statement
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Van
Hale
Again Tries Explaing Polygamy, August 21st, 2005
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Van Hale