Editing Brigham Young (section)

==== Polygamy ====
Though [[plural marriage|polygamy]] was practiced by Young's predecessor, Joseph Smith,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng|title=Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo|website=ChurchofJesusChrist.org}}</ref> the practice is often associated with Young. Some Latter Day Saint denominations, such as the [[Community of Christ]], consider Young the "Father of Mormon Polygamy".<ref>{{citation |author=Richard and Pamela Price |title=Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy: How Men Nearest the Prophet Attached Polygamy to His Name in Order to Justify Their Own Polygamous Crimes |place=Independence, Missouri |publisher=Price Publishing Company |year=2000 |chapter-url=http://restorationbookstore.org/articles/nopoligamy/jsfp-vol1/chp4.htm |chapter=Vol. 1, Ch. 4: Brigham Young: The Father of Mormon Polygamy |isbn=1891353063 |oclc=42027453 |lccn=99041763 |type=[[self-published]] |access-date=October 30, 2010 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716072007/http://restorationbookstore.org/articles/nopoligamy/jsfp-vol1/chp4.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1853, Young made the church's first official statement on the subject since the church had arrived in Utah. Young acknowledged that the doctrine was challenging for many women, but stated its necessity for creating large families, proclaiming: "But the first wife will say, 'It is hard, for I have lived with my husband twenty years, or thirty, and have raised a family of children for him, and it is a great trial to me for him to have more women;' then I say it is time that you gave him up to other women who will bear children."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Watt|first=G. D.|date=September 21, 1856|title=The People of God Disciplined By Trials – Atonement By the Shedding of Blood – Our Heavenly Father – A Privilege Given to All the Married Sisters in Utah|url=https://jod.mrm.org/4/51|journal=[[Journal of Discourses]]|volume=4|pages=56}}</ref> Young believed that sexual desire was given by God to ensure the perpetuation of humankind and believed sex should be confined to marriage.{{sfn|Turner|2012|p=96}}