The CCC wrote:Then punish the action of joining ISIS or murdering people in church are actions worthy of punishment. Believing in 20 gods, or no God at all, is between the individual and their own conscience. What they do is between them and the law.
Beliefs play a vital role in our actions, and while we cannot outlaw certain thoughts, we shouldn't help promote beliefs that are not in societies best interest. This is why we have some laws regarding the promotion of certain beliefs.
That is your belief that it was a sham. The women and men involved didn't believe or act as if it were.
I am not sure why you are having a comprehension problem. Emma though she was watching a real marriage, not a second one. Joseph and others did not confess that the person whom Emma begrudgingly. and for various reasons agreed Joseph could marry, was already married to Joseph.
Joseph didn't do the same thing. Again what consenting adults do between the bed-sheets is none of my concern.
Yes he did. He broke the law in marrying these people. I already told you he was breaking the bigamy laws. He lied about it consistently.
They weren't young girls. !4 was well within the legal age of consent to marry in the US of the early 19th Century.
SEE https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/230
They are still young girls, and Joseph was a manipulative in doping it and other marriages. The reason we don't allow young girls to marry today is because we understand they are not ready then or now. I suspect you would think quite negatively of others doing it even if it is legal but cannot go there with Joseph due to your believers bias.
Last I heard you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, at least in the US. But I guess in your biased mind an accusation is better than a conviction in a court of law.
Joseph is dead. Courts are not going to go over the facts. Historians do though. This is not a court of law, but we can look at the facts to see what Joseph was doing and what the law of the time were.
It was Missouri Gov, Lilburn Boggs who issued the Extermination Order. I hold responsible the Carthage Gray's incited by the Nauvoo Expositor for Joseph and Hyram's killings.
Boggs is not a whole group. Don't condemn a whole group. The Expositor told the truth, and it was Joseph's destruction of the press that added to animosity of the different sides.
Polygamy is all through the Bible.
For a non LDS source SEE http://www.biblicalpolygamy.com/exegesi ... ave-wives/
That doesn't make it right, nor does the Bible specially say it is from God. Joseph's flaming sword, the number of women he married, etc should cause some real pause to thinking it was from a good God.
The exemption in the Book of Mormon is quite specific in LDS doctrine. The President/Prophet of the Church is the only one with the authority to give revelation as to if, when and how polygamy is to be practiced.
Sorry but it is not very specific at all. I understand you believe it is from God. Not sure why if you really know the history of Joseph and what he did. My unbelief come directly from things like the smoking gun called the Book of Abraham. Add to that the Book of Mormon, and other facts about Joseph's claims. He was a fraud, even if maybe pious to some degree, right from his youth when he was deceiving people into thinking he could find lost treasure. You should read up on it. Funny that no one after him did anything like that anymore. Not even finishing the Book of Abraham.