No Mormon Polygamy

The Mormons grew really quickly for a "fringe" religious group, but were hindered in their outreach by polygamy, which always made them seem immoral or creepy* to "Gentiles" who dealt with them.

How would the LDS Church develop if polygamy was never acceptable to them?

*Not an attack on Mormons, just the general "vibe" you get from Mormon-Gentile interactions in the 19th century.

Douglas said:

The Mormons grew really quickly for a "fringe" religious group, but were hindered in their outreach by polygamy, which always made them seem immoral or creepy* to "Gentiles" who dealt with them.

How would the LDS Church develop if polygamy was never acceptable to them?

*Not an attack on Mormons, just the general "vibe" you get from Mormon-Gentile interactions in the 19th century.

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It might be more a question of Mormon/Mormon interactions.

The early Saints were a very ornery lot. Look up the trouble Joseph had in Kirtland with rivals for the leadership.

We made (and still make) a big deal of the persecution we suffered, but without the external threat we might have disintegrated altogether. Even OTL, most especially in the 1840s and again in the 1890s, we shed splinter sects the way individuals shed dandruff. To some exttent we needed a long period of estrangement from the outside world, to weld us into one people.