“I know the church wants to ignore it’s own history”
It seems there’s no statute of limitations when it comes to Mormons and their prior involvement in polygamy. Polygamy was once sanctioned within the Jewish faith (e.g. David, Solomon, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and others), but that was more than two thousand years ago, so I guess my Jewish friends get a pass on that :-).
You’re just solidifying my case. So now we have more traditional marriages including polygamy. I rest your case.
The earliest written Jewish Scripture is the Torah. In there you'll no find no "pre-sanction" for polygamy. In fact, you'll find just the opposite: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, [singular] and they will become one flesh. (Gen. 2:24)
He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. (Deut. 17:17)
If you try to say, "Well, let's look at what they actually DID" -- well, Solomon is the living example of Deut. 17:17: He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. (1 Kings 11:3)
Jacob didn't choose polygamy -- he was deceived into it. (And since when is deception "of God?")
Isaac was NEVER a polygamist. He married Rebekah.
Abraham, the angel of the Lord, Moses, Hagar the slave, and the apostle Paul NEVER reference Hagar as a wife or anything other than a concubine/slave. (Since ancient Jewish thought is a male-dominated faith, how is it that you claim it "sanctioned" what Abram did -- yet none of the males involved or those who later commented on it as "Scripture" ever deemed Hagar as a wife?)
So now we're down to David. Simply put, David inherited concubines as part of the kingdom he inherited.
Likewise, see Deuteronomy 17:17