Fifth Columnist wrote:Jack, what you wrote reminds me of this little bit of tripe from Blake Ostler.
My post was a mash-up of different responses that I've heard from Latter-day Saints when asked about the questionable aspects of early Mormon polygamy. Blake's blurb on polygamy from his testimony was one of the sources I had in mind.
For the record, I quite like Blake and usually enjoy reading his arguments, even when I don't agree with him (which is most of the time). I wish Mormonism had a hundred scholars like him. But the blurb from his testimony was certainly one of the weakest I've seen from him.