Orson Hyde maintains that Jesus was polygamist, had children.

Date
Mar 18, 1855
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Orson Hyde
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Orson Hyde, "The Judgments of God on the United States," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Franklin D. Richards 1855), 2:210

Scribe/Publisher
George D. Watt, Franklin D. Richards
People
Orson Hyde
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

All that I have to say in reply to that charge is this—they worship a Savior that is too pure and holy to fulfil the commands of his Father. I worship one that is just pure and holy enough "to fulfil all righteousness;" not only the righteous law of baptism, but the still more righteous and important law "to multiply and replenish the earth." Startle not at this! for even the Father himself honored that law by coming down to Mary, without a natural body, and begetting a son; and if Jesus begat children, he only "did that which he had seen his Father do."

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