{"id":34423,"date":"2016-06-19T01:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T07:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=34423"},"modified":"2016-06-19T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T07:10:28","slug":"new-evidence-regarding-joseph-smith-and-polyandry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/06\/new-evidence-regarding-joseph-smith-and-polyandry.html","title":{"rendered":"New Evidence Regarding Joseph Smith and Polyandry"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34424\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/06\/Uppsala_Dom_Innen_Rosette.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34424\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34424\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/06\/Uppsala_Dom_Innen_Rosette.jpg\" alt=\"Uppsala Rose Window\" width=\"595\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rose window at Uppsala Cathedral\u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News that, according to solid genetic evidence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/06\/joseph-smith-apparently-was-not-josephine-lyons-father-mormon-history-association-speaker-says.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Smith\u00a0<em>wasn\u2019t<\/em> the biological father of Josephine Lyon<\/a>, despite what many had thought, is being used by some to argue that Joseph was nonetheless guilty of polyandry. \u00a0Is this argument supported by the evidence?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wT7He-4HsQc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here is a response<\/a> to that issue by Brian Hales and Laura Harris Hales, who also spoke on related matters here in Sweden\u00a0yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What can DNA testing tell us about Joseph Smith's plural marriages?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wT7He-4HsQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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