What exactly do you call sex with teenage polygamous wives (that Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, other Mormons engaged in)?
Additionally, Joseph Smith was in the Carthage jail on charges of riot and treason stemming from his ordered destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor press. Smith ordered the destruction of the press because they had printed the truth about Smith, including his polygamous relationships. Were Smith's actions, here, moral and upright?
You are discussing the alleged crimes of a person.
I was discussing the generalization of the comparison between two religions.
I’m not actually discussing the specifics of those two religions, just whether it is a fair comparison to claim they are identical.
Note that in this case, we MUST look at the group as a whole, because the charge was made about the group as a whole.
Whereas elsewhere I argue that we can’t look at the group, because the law targets individuals, not membership in groups.
If someone was arguing that some leader of FLDS compared to some leader of LDS, I wouldn’t bother to join the discussion.