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I don’t like Mormon beliefs, but misrepresenting what someone believes is really disgusting behavior.

What's also telling is how far your moral compass is off...
...instead of being digusted how Joseph Smith forced himself upon 14 yo and 16 yo like Lucy Walker -- a girl whose mother had died & whose father was sent to the east coast by Smith...
...instead of being disgusted by how Smith "married" 11 women still married to other men...and how a lot of these men were likewise sent to the mission field...
...instead of being disgusted by Smith, Brigham Young & Warren Jeffs compiling at least 178 wives between this trio...
...instead of being disgusted by how about 120 years of Mormon "prophets" practicing polygamy leads to the likes of a Warren Jeffs...
...you are disgusted by an "expose'" of sorts on all this.

What's also telling is how far your moral compass is off... ...instead of being digusted how Joseph Smith forced himself upon 14 yo and 16 yo like Lucy Walker -- a girl whose mother had died & whose father was sent to the east coast by Smith... ...instead of being disgusted by how Smith "married" 11 women still married to other men...and how a lot of these men were likewise sent to the mission field... ...instead of being disgusted by Smith, Brigham Young & Warren Jeffs compiling at least 178 wives between this trio... ...instead of being disgusted by how about 120 years of Mormon "prophets" practicing polygamy leads to the likes of a Warren Jeffs... ...you are disgusted by an "expose'" of sorts on all this.

Colofornian, you're wrong about all of that.
I am disgusted by all those Mormon beliefs and practices. I have often criticised them myself.
I have no problem with the articles you posted, I felt they were honest.

It was your summary of the article that was dishonest.

You said, "“To see how the Mormon church tried spinning Warren Jeffs as a continuation of 120 years of polygamous Mormon “prophets” yesterday, see: Warren Jeffs and the abandonment of tradition”

The Mormon church believes and argues no such thing about Warren Jeffs. In fact they've done exactly the opposite of what you say they have -- they explicitly criticise and distance themselves from Jeffs and such groups.

You told a lie about the Mormon Church, you knew it was a lie when you wrote it, and anyone with the most cursory understanding of LDS beliefs knows they don't agree with or sanction Warren Jeffs.

You could have been honest and clarified that you were talking about an offshoot splinter of the Mormon church that is less than 1% of all Mormons, as the article you posted did. But you instead chose to mislead.

What would you think of someone calling the Westboro Baptist group the "Christian church", and falsely arguing that the Christian church loves them and thinks what they do is right? That's the same thing you're doing when you call Warren Jeffs and his ilk the "mormon church", when in reality they're the tiniest splinter offshoot of Mormons today.

Criticise beliefs all you want, but don't lie about what people believe, OK? It's disgusting behavior.

You don't have to agree with someone's beliefs to realize that lying about those beliefs is wrong.