So, you come by this naturally, I take it.
Where were the Mormons in 1878? In the United States?
Give up. You lose. You’re doing nothing to bring souls to Christ. You’re obsessed with Mormon past, and you ought to be more concerned about your own future.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go baptize my daughter and help increase the swelling LDS membership rolls.
May God bless you.
Your brother in Christ.
I guess they were their own independent nation, huh?
Utah was a territory under the sole and sovereign jurisdiction of the United States of America. The Congress had outlawed polygamy in the territories under its jurisdiction and the Mormons flaunted that law until the church was eventually disincorporated and the Government had begun seizing assets of the LDS Church.
It was only after the US Goverment began actively enforcing the laws that the LDS Church had their so-called "revelation" suspending the practice.
If you are trying to argue that the LDS Church was not in violation of the law then you have no knowledge of your own church history. Which doesn't surprise me since you think that quoting prophets from 100 years ago is "Living in the past".
Well the prophets I quote and from whom I derive my doctrine all lived thousands of years ago.
So yes, I do live in the past. 1878 is but a moment in time on the Biblical prophecy time line. Joseph F. Smith was not only a recent prophet, but a false prophet to boot.