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To: restornu; CARepubGal; computerjunkie; Chemnitz; Bat_Chemist
I have more respect for wrigley in waiting on the Lord for a wife and children than I do for the Prophet Joseph Smith, SBUHN taking mistresses, hitting on married women and threatening his first wife with eternal damnation if she has the temerity to question him.

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Here's a little reading for you...

Todd Compton In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
from the publisher:
Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph's first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with the prophet. Emma remained a steadfast opponent of polygamy throughout her life. The majority of Smith's wives were younger than he, and one-third were between fourteen and twenty years of age. Another third were already married, and some of the husbands served as witnesses at their own wife's polyandrous wedding. In addition, some of the wives hinted that they bore Smith children--most notably Sylvia Sessions's daughter Josephine--although the children carried their stepfather's surname.

For all of Smith's wives, the experience of being secretly married was socially isolating, emotionally draining, and sexually frustrating. Despite the spiritual and temporal benefits, which they acknowledged, they found their faith tested to the limit of its endurance. After Smith's death in 1844, their lives became even more "lonely and desolate." One even joined a convent. The majority were appropriated by Smith's successors, based on the Old Testament law of the Levirate, and had children by them, though they considered these guardianships unsatisfying. Others stayed in the Midwest and remarried, while one moved to California. But all considered their lives unhappy, except for the joy they found in their children and grandchildren.

Todd Compton, Ph.D., classics, UCLA, is the editor of Hugh Nibley's Mormonism and Early Christianity, a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Mormonism and Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism, and has been published in the American Journal of Philology, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Classical Quarterly, and the Journal of Popular Culture, among others.

You ridicule wrigley and yet place your trust in a serial abuser of women. That's sick.

96 posted on 12/16/2002 9:49:07 PM PST by drstevej
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To: Wrigley
Flag to post #96.
97 posted on 12/16/2002 9:49:56 PM PST by drstevej
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To: drstevej
It's amazing what some will defend and support.
110 posted on 12/17/2002 4:56:20 AM PST by Wrigley
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