I don't get this. If they acknowledge that Joey was a swinging snake in the grass, why don't they drop all the other garbage he created and convert to Christianity?
The mormons in my family would die before they acknowledged that Joseph Smith was this person.
If he is as history says he is, then everything they have believed for more than century, was in vain.
I have had cousins who have left, it is very hard. They are shunned by the rest of the family and lds friends.
I have a cousin who lost his job.
I have a cousin, who nearly lost her husband. Her struggle did not end well for her or her children.
Some of them are "on their way" toward doing exactly that...some conversions are sudden; others like molasses.
Some of the ambivalent ones try to say, "Well, look at Solomon & his cavorting...yet God used him." (And/Or they will point to the moral failings of other OT leaders)
With most of these failings in the OT, they were individual acts (vs. lifestyles)...obviously Solomon's failings were "lifestyle" issues...a heart turned away from God by his wives & concubines...
“I don’t get this. If they acknowledge that Joey was a swinging snake in the grass, why don’t they drop all the other garbage he created and convert to Christianity? “
Because mormonism is about FEELINGS/EXPERIENCES and not truth.