Disingeneous hypricracy on the part of the mormon leadership. Joey and Brig were well into muliple wives beginning the 1830s, that is too well documented to deny as you are trying to do (as well as the lame Ency of Mormonism tries to do). Even pro-LDS sites have to admit that
http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/polyandry.pdf
Excommunication was a common tool of joey's to dispose of oppostion. Oliver Cowdrey was excommunicated in part after voicing opposition to Joey's polygamy. I'm sure that if one were to examine the broader context of those who were excommunicated, one would find that they had some how crossed joey or his cabal in some fashion.
In fact, even known Anti Mormon “exposer” John C. Bennett, who started the Nauvoo Expositor, was excommunicated by Joseph for his serial infidelities and his perverted practices about the principle.
First off, Bennett left Nauvoo and started his attacks on joey's character elsewhere. It was William Law (a member of the 1st Presidency) and other mormons who were concerned about joey's excesses that started the Expositor - get your history right at least.
One more, this by Fawn Brodie, an Anti Mormon, a critical biographer of Joseph Smith and a recognized expert on Smith, admitted that polygamy in Joseph’s mind was not about anything other than restoring the Biblical practice and completing a “restoration of all things.”
Shame on you 7, typical 'poisoining the well'. First, Brodie was a mormon, and was excommunicated because her book - "No Man Knows My History" - published the truth about Joey's polygamy and lies that the mormon heirarchy wanted to be kept under the rug. Fact is, her statements and observations have been found to be supported over and over again. Her history of Thomas Jefferson is an example of the fine work that she has done. NO, she is only an ANTI because her work shined the light on the cockroaches. Other mormons recently (within past 10-15 years) have also been excommunicated because they discovered that mormonism has been far less than honest with their facts and history and when they spoke out - the cabal followed joey's example.
Many of you have taken it upon yourselves to be Lawyer, Judge and executioner of Joseph Smith. That is your right, but it is also my right to proclaim that He was a prophet of God, and restored the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
You better believe it. If it wasn't for the evil that joey inflicted on this country, those 11, 12, 13, 14 and on up year old girls would not be raped and abused by those who followed the prophet. Look into those faces 7, those are the fruits of you prophet.
2 Nephi 3:18 And the Lord said unto me also: I will raise up unto the fruit of thy loins; and I will make for him a spokesman. And I, behold, I will give unto him that he shall write the writing of the fruit of thy loins, unto the fruit of thy loins; and the spokesman of thy loins shall declare it.
Joseph Smith Translation Gen. 50: 27 Thus saith the Lord God of my fathers unto me, A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins, and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins; and unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren.
Joseph Smith Translation Gen. 50: 31 Wherefore the fruit of thy loins shall write, and the fruit of thy loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins of Judah, shall grow together