I’m surprise they didn’t make him a eunuch.
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They were going to
they had a doctor there for that purpose
the doctor chickened out...
Fawn Brodie said that the mob of mormons “dragged Joseph... They stripped him, scratched and beat him with savage pleasure, and smeared his bleeding body with tar from head to foot.... they plastered him with feathers. It is said that Eli Johnson demanded that the prophet be castrated, for he suspected Joseph of being too intimate with his sister, Nancy Marinda. But the doctor who had been persuaded to join the mob declined...” (No Man Knows My History, 1971, page 119)
This is why I don't know how the rest of the morms here on Free Republic can still hold onto JS and his religion. How can they build their faith on a morally corrupt character?
Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!