[Zakeet]

Several interesting points raised in the article:

1. The Mormon Church has lied about this and many other subjects for years.
   
2. The Church admitted the truth after a time when church members are increasingly encountering disturbing claims about the faith on the Internet.
   
3. The Church admitted that one of Smith's wives was 14 years old -- making Smith a pedophile and a statutory rapist.
   
4. The Church admitted that some of Smith's wives were were already married, some to men who were Smith’s friends and followers.
   
5. Reactions of some Church members has followed the five stages of grief, including: denial and anger.

According to Dr. Richard Bushman, a prominent historian, church leaders: “Somewhere along the line they decided they were just going to tell the whole story, not to be defensive, not to try to hide anything. And there’s no single fact that’s more unsettling than Joseph Smith’s marriage to other men’s wives.

“It’s a recognition of maturity,” said Dr. Bushman, who is a Mormon. “There are lots of church leaders who say: ‘We can take anything, just let us know how it really happened. We’re a church that is secure.’ ”

[Zakeet]

Ping to an article of interest.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Mohammed

[tumblindice]

Hey Joe! Where you going ...
With that gun in your hand?

“I’m goin’ to shoot my old ladies,
Shoot ‘em down to the ground.”

Did you take the trash out, Joseph? X 40

[bray]

Sounds like he invented the cult to get the ladies.

Pray America is waking

[DJ Frisat]

Just in case Mitt Romney is is even daydreaming about a 2016 run, NYT has to put the ‘radicalism’ of Mormons back in the spotlight...

[CynicalBear]

>>We’re a church that is secure.’ ”<<

That sounds like another religion we see often here.

[BwanaNdege]

How many “wives” (serial) has Bill Clinton had, or, for that matter, did JFK have, just while they were in the White House?

(not defending Joseph Smith, just asking that the NYT apply the same indignant standard to THEIR saints that the Times is applying to the Morman’s)

[metmom]

So the church has been lying to them all these years?

Kind of makes you wonder what else they’ve been lying about, doesn’t it?

[rawcatslyentist]

The similarities and disparities between Joehoeseph and Mohamed (Pigs be inseminating him) are remarkable.

Lucy has quite a range of deception!

If you're not following Jesus, guess where you're headed!

[Politicalkiddo]

My brain inserted “Muslim” instead of “Mormon”.

[11th Commandment]

I just did a quick search on "Joseph Smith not a polygamist"- Several authors, websites and Mormon apologist have some explaining to do.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

I generally go by "You shall know them by their fruits"

In my experience the Mormon tree has produced good fruit.

Harry Reid notwithstanding.

[donjuanluis07]

Obligatory, “This thread is useless without pics” “Guilty or Not Guilty?”

[TexasFreeper2009]

Most Mormons I have met are good people.

But honestly.. if they just spent 5 minutes researching the origins of their religion, they would know almost instantly it’s a complete and utter crock.

[HarleyLady27]

I remember when JFK was talking about running for Prez....so many people were worried about him being Catholic...is this a start to tear down Mitt in the same manner...I don’t intend on voting for Mitt, just saying...

[folkquest]

40 mothers-in-law. Yikes!

[miss marmelstein]

40 wives?? What a masochist.

[alancarp]

Fortunately, Joe was able to overcome this shortcoming on his way to personal piety and perfection, end route to eventual godhood.

...er, what? You mean he was still doing this at the time an angry mob dragged him out of jail and killed him?

Never mind, then.

[Sequoyah101]

We learned this in grade school in the 60s and again when we visits SLC and that the streets in SLC were built wide so the whole family could walk to church barest and a wagon team could turn around.

Try telling many of the women married before the turn of the century they were victims of statutory rape. How stupid. Do people not learn any history at all any more?

[GAgal]

Smith was killed at 38. Imagine what his wife count would be if he’d lived as long as Brigham Young. The previous LDS strategy of ordering the faithful not to read the original documents available online apparently failed.