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if, um, most people who read the scriptures would say, "You know what? There's at least been some times that God has, um, or authorized polygamy," whether that was in the Old Testament, whether that was in the modern church.

Does that mean that every single, um, action performed by, you know, someone practicing polygamy was good or inspired? No, certainly not.

Um, but this question about, you know, obviously the early church did practice polygamy in the West and then in Nauvoo, and, you know, why can't women be able to have two husbands sealed to her but a man can have both wives sealed to him? I think the first thing to talk about is just our conceptions of the afterlife.

I think sometimes we think that we know more than we do about what the next life looks like, and I think the church is pretty transparent about, you know, we kinda have this definition of doctrine, um, that was given us to by, by Elder Andersen where he says, "Hey, you know, the doctrine's not in one obscure paragraph of one talk." And, and by that metric, like, the church doesn't have, like, an official answer to this question.

Um, and, you know, one way that I think about this is you think about, like, what is the alternative, right? 'Cause some of us, we feel uneasy, the idea of, well, what if my...

How can I stay consistent with, quote, church stuff without feeling like I have to restart my spirituality every time I slip up?