Joseph Smith was "practicing" polygamy long before the 1844 Revelation. I posted a sermon a couple weeks ago from one of the Mormon Prophets who stated that Joseph Smith revealed this revelation to him as early as 1837. Your contention that Joseph Smith was not "practicing polygamy" is ludicrous on its face. Maybe Emma didn't allow them to live in her house, but that does not mean that Joseph wasn't busy practicing his polygamy in the Oval Office in the Navoo and Kirtland temples. The evidence of his philandering is overwhelming. But some people refuse to see.
You do know that many of the revelations were aimed at placating Emma.... Emma knew where all of the skeletons were.
Are you speaking of Blood Atonement?
For the visually impaired may I suggest that you start at 302 and work backwards.
I think it is clear to everyone that you lost that argument.
[The evidence of his philandering is overwhelming.]
LeGrande is making an extremely tenuous legalistic argument that Joe Smith was a serial adulterer, just not a polygamist. Given that Smith gave sermons and was the rootsource of the polygamy doctrine as well as a philanderer, this would be similar in form to arguing Hitler was not a mas murderer because no one ever saw him gassing a Jew.
But such is the type of obfuscation we can expect. Perhaps Legrande needs his own Ecumenical thread so he doesn’t have to be called on inconvenient points of logic.
You keep saying it but saying it doesn't make it true. Do you have a single contemporaneous record or DNA result to back up your statement? You don't.
"You do know that many of the revelations were aimed at placating Emma.... Emma knew where all of the skeletons were."
Are you speaking of Blood Atonement?
Of course not, lol but skeletons might elicit that thought : ) JS had no secrets from Emma and Emma was the driving force behind the creation of the Church. Emma knew all the behind the scenes dirt.
I think it is clear to everyone that you lost that argument.
Maybe to the mentally challenged.