It’s sick:
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And why did Joseph Smith, on May 25, 1844, deny having any wives other than Emma Hale Smith?
Joseph Smith was indicted on charges of polygamy and adultery on May 23, 1844:
“The marriage to the Lawrence sisters became public knowledge when William Law, Joseph’s second counselor in the First Presidency, became alienated from the Prophet. Law, who had known the Lawrence family since their conversion in Canada, chose the marriage of Smith and Maria Lawrence as a test case with which to prosecute Smith for adultery. On May 23 he filed suit against the Mormon leader in Hancock Count Circuit Court, at Carthage, charging that Smith had been living with Maria Lawrence ‘in an open state of adultery’ from October 12, 1843, to the day of the suit.”
“In response, Smith flatly denied polygamy in a speech delivered on May 26: ‘What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can find only one.’ As polygamy was illegal under US law, Smith had little choice but to openly repudiate the practice. But as is often the case with secret policies that are denied publicly, Smith’s credibility would later suffer.”
“Realistically he must have understood that thirty-three or more marriages could not be kept a secret forever, and that when they became known the gulf between his public statements and private practice would come back to haunt him.”
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Yes, ole Smith LIED!
http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_illegal.htm
We should use this against the moslums. Any mosque is a monument to polygammy and countless other abuses of women, the religion of islam is supportive of.
Finding the premise of the Polygamy show appalling - I stopped and asked myself how this situation differs from many modern marriages/divorces/remarriages that include siblings, half-siblings, step siblings and all manner of spousal algebra....with extra-marital affairs and serial adultery.
Think John Edwards!!!
And don’t get me started on same-sex marriages with sperm donations and egg harvesting.
Ping
This bizarre group of people don’t even call themselves Mormon, and yet, you don’t waste the opportunity to discuss what you don’t like about Mormons. Since you are going way back to the 1800’s to get your talking points, then I would like to know why you ‘Christians’ like to call people witches and then kill them? I hope you feel warm and fuzzy inside from being religiously superior to others.