The CCC wrote:At the time the First Amendment was defined as only applying to the Federal Government. by the way I never said I thought the destruction of the Expositor press was a good idea. It wasn't, but it was legal at the time.
Destroying the press was legal? You should at least be good enough to provide a reference to the FAIRMormon garbage you're parroting.
http://blog.mrm.org/2007/10/dallin-oaks ... s-illegal/“The characterization of the printing press as a nuisance, and its subsequent destruction, is another matter. The common law authorities on nuisance abatement generally, and especially those on summary abatement, were emphatic in declaring that abatement must be limited by the necessities of the case, and that no wanton or unnecessary destruction of property could be permitted. A party guilty of excess was liable in damages for trespass to the party injured…. there was no legal justification in 1844 for the destruction of the Expositor press as a nuisance. Its libelous, provocative, and perhaps obscene output may well have been a public and a private nuisance, but the evil article was not the press itself but the way in which it was being used. Consequently, those who caused or accomplished its destruction were liable for money damages in an action of trespass.”
(Utah Law Review, Summer 1965, pages 890-891)
So. Let's not play word games and insinuate that destroying, I dunno, copies of the Expositor is the same as trespassing and destruction of property.
Funnily enough Dallin H. Oaks in describing the content of the Expositor's papers wrote (re-posted from above for emphasis):
“There was no legal justification in 1844 for the destruction of the Expositor press as a nuisance. Its libelous, provocative, and perhaps obscene output may well have been a public and a private nuisance, but the evil article was not the press itself but the way in which it was being used.”
And all they did was write the truth, in that Joseph Smith did, in fact, marry other men's wives, teenage girls, mother-daughter combos, sisters, and did, in fact, consummate these relationships.
Make peace with the truth, The CCC. These are facts and they're confirmed by the Church itself.
- Doc