In the United States, by the 1880s, most states set the age of consent at ten or twelve, and in one state, Delaware
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Ive been meaning to ask you
What do laws from other states and 40 years after Joey Smith got himself killed in a shoot out breaking out of jail
got to do with laws in OH, MO, Il in the 1830-1840s ???
Smith moved out of lawful aqreas so he would be immuned from US moral and marriage laws
Smith was mayor of Nauvoo, Il and wrote his own laws, all of them againsty the 10 Commandments and all designed to excuse his immoral, lustful lifestyle
His homemade religion he called Mormonism was merely a covering for his sins...
Joey Smith declared that he wanted to be a 2nd Mohammad
“Joseph Smith or the Sword”
Mormonism until 1978 was racist and bigotted and is still sexist like Islam..
Williard Mitt Romney was a member of the mormon religion for 23 years (age 8 through to 31(
so therefore Williard Mitt Romney was a practicing racist anhd bigot
I refer you to the mormon doctrine of racism and bigotry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2722645/posts?page=66#66
Thank you Elsie for posting those
dalight you introduced Romney and mormonism into the thread so you must want them to be addressed..
Personally I refuse to vote for the $50 abortion pusher and same sex marriage advocate Williard Mitt Romney
You on the other hand had better vote for Romney or be caught in your own words...
(as a bigot)
Cool, a nearly cogent post.
You made a post that seemed off of the wall, and rather than fly off of the handle, I took the time to look up your posts and read what you have been writing. Due diligence requires this, perhaps you had a point and I wasn't getting it.
Your post was, "I would hope that Gov Sarah Palin doesnt appear to give any credence to this sham..."
This stuck me as odd. My mom who is 82 has decided to go to this and a number of events because, regardless of who is saying no, no has to be said or Israel will exist no more in a very short time. This is a reality, just because Glenn Beck says it doesn't mean it isn't so. But, here you were calling the event a sham. And I thought, odd. So I looked up your previous posts and found, to my surprise, that you have been trolling threads bashing Romney, Beck and Mormonism in general and in these threads folks have been calling you out and saying stop this crap.
You think you are educating people, but in fact, you are just filling our threads with crap. This is your own crusade, you and a number of fellow travelers and in the general world, it is called a dirty trick. But, worse, it is an appeal not to reason, but rather an appeal to bigotry.
I am not going to get sucked into defending Mormonism, or Islam, or Communism. All of these systems of thought are flawed in my eyes but you see, per force, I also see Christianity as flawed. Yet, I love Christians and sincerely believe they are a blessing to this green earth and all of God's creation. I know Mormons and have worked for them and I read and love Orson Scott Card.
The book of Joshua instructs the Israelites to kill and dispossess the Caananites from all of the land. And, when they wouldn't, couldn't even though it cost them Israel in the end, was this God's intention all along? It is a bitter pill when you confuse love and hate.
As for your question about laws of states 40 years after, the discussion was about when did laws regarding to the age of consent get passed originally and why?
As for Joseph Smith his problem with the law was not that the question of whether she was too young, at the time the practice of marrying a 14 year old was perfectly acceptable. The issue was Bigamy, which people seriously frowned on and which was against the law in the State of Illinois. But, I really don't care about the rest of it with regards to defending anything about it. Monogamy is a blessing. Faiths that respect human dignity are inherently "liberal" but small "l" liberal means about 180 degrees away from what is generally accepted as "Liberal" thought today, big government socialism and the inevitability or tyranny.
Yet, none of that matters. In your zeal, one supposes to expose the "depravity" of the Mormon faith, based on characterizations based on your views of the behavior of Joseph Smith and the mind bending doctrines of that faith, you skip over the line from that cause and into simple religious bigotry. Many if not most of the Mormons I know are really good people, I don't know how this comes to pass, especially given all that is generally known about their faith, but there it is. Mormonism used to teach Racial bigotry, but they renounced it. It used to teach Polygamy and yet they renounced that even though zealots attempt it regardless. But, that is the nature of zealots.
You are acting out of zealotry too, though, and this is a form of evil borne of the sin of pride. As it is said, "Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."