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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were adults, but one was a 14-year-old girl who was the daughter of Smith's close friends. Research shows the marriage might not have involved sex.

In his book In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, Mormon historian Todd Compton documents that Smith had:

Eleven of these women were already married to other men at the time Joseph married them. Compton concludes his findings about their ages in this way:
"The teenage representation is the largest, though the twenty-year and thirty-year groups are comparable, which contradicts the Mormon folk-wisdom that sees the beginning of polygamy as an attempt to care for older, unattached women. These data suggest that sexual attraction was an important part of the motivation for Smith's polygamy" (p. 11).


1 posted on 10/26/2014 7:11:46 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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When polygamy is legalized that satanic cult’s colors will be revealed. After fag marriages and polygamy, the next taboo to be conquered will be pedophilia.


2 posted on 10/26/2014 7:14:37 PM PDT by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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Hot dog Prophet Placemarker


3 posted on 10/26/2014 7:18:59 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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Yet another pedophile prophet


4 posted on 10/26/2014 7:19:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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So he had 33 wives? That’s a lot of guys that are doing without.... Aren’t Mormons also supposed to believe the Bible in addition to their ‘Book of Mormons’? If so, how does polygamy get supported and squared when 1 Timothy 3:2 says....”A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach...”


6 posted on 10/26/2014 7:27:54 PM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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Who cares? If one faggot can marry another faggot— can he marry two? If women who have oral sex with women can adopt children to watch them — who the hell cares about 10 wives or 10 husbands for one sore wife? Give me a break. The Courts have spoken so lets marry any thing and any body. IT IS OUR RIGHT!!!


13 posted on 10/26/2014 8:09:18 PM PDT by iowacornman (. He is the father of government health care.)
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Using your logic,

Abraham, Isaac (probably Jacob too)were polygamists ..... so the Bible and Christianity must not be true either!!!!


15 posted on 10/26/2014 8:12:42 PM PDT by teppe (... for my God ... for my Family ... for my Country ....)
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Bad day for Mormons..... The truth finally comes out.


17 posted on 10/26/2014 8:22:51 PM PDT by dragonblustar
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Mr. Murphey - where do you hail from ?
My grandparents were Murphy's also ...
as were our neighbors !
Murphy is Irish for "Sea wolf", and suggests coastal communities in Ireland.
22 posted on 10/26/2014 8:40:43 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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“Mooney” Lynn had a 14 year old bride. Her name was Loretta.


23 posted on 10/26/2014 8:44:20 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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No partridge in a pear tree?

Well, that’s odd...


24 posted on 10/26/2014 8:44:31 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Any man married to so many women outta be prayed over as he is gonna need it.......


31 posted on 10/26/2014 9:44:25 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Alex, I told my son the other day that you never win a convert by trying to insult your neighbor, only an enemy. Was thinking of you.

I told him to answer questions others ask of you with good will about your faith and perhaps ask them questions of good will about theirs.

You seem to have fairly upset someone. Jesus loses again.


41 posted on 10/27/2014 1:41:39 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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I’ll say it again: Compare Joseph Smith with Muhammed.

Both men founded a religion and got all the money and sex they could from it. For personal benefit.

Christ’s Apostles didn’t angle for money, sex, or political power, unlike Joe Smith and Mad Mo’.

They sacrificed their livelihoods, and finally, their own lives, knowing that spreading the Good News would cost them their lives under the Klingon, er, Roman Empire. (I say that to get the reader to realize that the Romans were just as brutal.)

It was a DEATH sentence to preach Christianity within the Empire, the Apostles new it, and it took more courage than 21st century folks can understand (or have) to do it.

Certainly, the early Christians can be distinguished from the followers of the other two (Mormon, Muslim) by their actions. They didn’t start fake banks, scr3w young girls,or engage in any of that. It was entirely self-sacrifice, and I admire them for that.

Sauron


44 posted on 10/27/2014 4:49:24 AM PDT by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: Alex Murphy; Colofornian; Elsie; svcw; Zakeet; Tennessee Nana; aMorePerfectUnion; Godzilla; ...
Interesting thead...here's what the mormon missionaries tell people.

Mormon Secrets: What the Missionaries Don't Tell

47 posted on 10/27/2014 8:40:25 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Valerie Jarrett warned us they would "get even with those who opposed them"..)
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Helen herself said sex weas involved...

she said Joey Smith lied to her parents about that..

she was told by them that sex would not be involved, but it was..

she and Smith shared her bed that night at her fathers house..

However he did go to a stag dance the next night and left her alone..(wives didn’t go to those “dances”)

he was looking for fresh victims...


48 posted on 10/27/2014 8:49:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (awa v)
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JS said/implied polygamy was necessary for entry into heave, hence the “multiple celestial marriages” going on in the “temple” today. IE still practicing poligamy
After reading the thread its interesting that so far no one has mention JS “married”other men’s wives WHILE they were still married to their husbands.
What JS practiced was pedophilia, adultery, and polyandry.
Amazing.


54 posted on 10/27/2014 9:11:35 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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A new church essay reveals Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had an underage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced.

So... the 'church' is finally owning up to what those EVIL ANTI-Mormon websites have been saying for years!

Where are Paragon Defender, Restornu, Saundra Duffey ETAL now??

56 posted on 10/27/2014 9:16:59 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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57 posted on 10/27/2014 9:17:29 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Mormon founder had teen bride during early days of faith when polygamy was practiced

So?

Girls used to get married as teens.

77 posted on 10/27/2014 9:49:50 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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80 posted on 10/27/2014 9:56:26 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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