[Tennessee Nana]

except these were not marriages...

they were just one night stands with little girls some as young as 14...

Young had one wife and over 50 concubines...

all at the same time...

Joey Smith had at lest 40 extra women among them 14 year olds and 11 women already married to other men...

again these were not marriages...

just sexual exploits of defenseless women and children...

Joey Smith and Bringem Young were both sick perverted dogs ...

Like this “president” (pastor) of a Mormon religious house...

[driftdiver]

I wasn’t referring to these specific instances. I was referring to the age of marriage to point out that the current social and legal norms were different in the 1800s.

In other words it wasn’t all that unusual for a 30 yr old man to marry a younger woman, some times as young as 15. Heck I remember hearing about people in my grandmothers generation getting married as young as 13.

Now anyone doing that today would be deemed a deviant and rightly so.

[Elsie]

Joey Smith had at lest 40 extra women among them 14 year olds and 11 women already married to other men...

Decisions decisions!

Emma Hale only!!

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