They were not, and that’s not what it says, but you’re welcome to twist it however you like to believe differently - same as people do with the Bible.

If someone came up to your mom/sister/daughter and said “There’s a hidden sniper with his rifle trained on you right now. Marry me and stay loyal, or else he’ll shoot you” then you wouldn’t consider that to be rape? I most certainly would. Whenever you threaten someone with violence for refusing a sexual relationship, that is rape.

Because in D&C 132:54, Emma is threatened with destruction if she refuses. That’s called rape by duress.

That was AFTER impregnation, though, and under duress from supernatural beings. I don’t think that’s the correct order of operations for valid consent…

Mormons took that and really ran with it, as their a “Doctrine & Covenants” are much more blatant in support of rape. Joseph Smith told Emma Hale that God would destroy her for refusing to marry him.

Whaaaaaaaat? Bewildered expression