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To: wolfcreek
Book of Mormon = Book of Mormon

Polygamy = Polygamy

Joseph Smith = Joseph Smith

FLDS = LDS

“So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.” Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:17-20)

Apostle Orson Hyde: “I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that JESUS CHRIST WAS MARRIED at Cana of Galilee, THAT MARY, MARTHA, AND OTHERS WERE HIS WIVES, AND THAT HE BEGAT CHILDREN. (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, page 210)

Brigham Young, answering critics who claimed polygamy as a relic of barbarism: “ Yes, one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, OF JESUS, AND HIS APOSTLES.” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 328)

Brigham Young: “The Scripture says that He, the LORD, came walking in the Temple, with HIS TRAIN; I do not now who they were, unless HIS WIVES AND CHILDREN;...” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, page 309)

11 posted on 12/23/2008 1:34:22 PM PST by SENTINEL (My Christ outranks your "prophet".)
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To: SENTINEL
Personally, I'm more concerned about the marriages to and sex with, under aged girls. If these people want to have a dozen wives, power to them.

Oh, I don't want them in my State, regardless.

14 posted on 12/23/2008 1:57:02 PM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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