How Mormons talk to each other about Smith's sexual pursuit of women.
I was flipping back and forth in doing reasearch and came to a website that seems to have a lot of Mormon-topic posters talking about the issue of Smith's wives and the way he went after women.
I looked at a bunch of the posts and there are two or three that stand out to me because they remind me of other people who have posted here on the Walter martin forum.
The first post I will bring up was written back by someone by the name of Lilli who wrote the following of Smith back on February 21, 2013 at 8:12 pm
I quote Lilli-
"...We know that even Joseph must be considered innocent of polygamy until proven guilty of it, and since there is no proof of his ever preaching or practicing polygamy, only the vile hearsay by others, (usually from those who wanted to live polygamy), thus the common sense person cannot believe Joseph was guilty of polygamy. Not even a court of law could find the proof to accuse Joseph of polygamy, why would we? "
and later...
" Anyone who has known a truly righteous man or husband, knows that ‘true’ prophets could never believe in or live polygamy, let alone lie about it.
I don’t understand how Brian can just ignore such numerous constant and proven & published testimony from Joseph Smith and instead believe totally unproven hearsay, from people who usually had every reason to lie, and act like it’s a given that Joseph lived polygamy just because others said he did.
I believe in Christ and that Joseph was a true prophets who told the absolute truth.
Christ & Joseph clearly taught against a man marrying 2 living women, they said it was adultery, why would we ever believe anyone else who taught anti to Christ or Joseph? "
When I read this I thought back to the Nice Mormon Lady (NML) who used to post on our forum here all the time.
She would defend Smith's reputation strongly against the charge that Smith married other women, in any way,shape , or form.
I remember so many tiopics where the NML would end up in a huge argument with Christians like Jim , and the topics would get so heated that there was always a 50/50chance the topic would be cleared away at any moment due to poor manners by everyone involved.
The Nice Mormon Lady always held the view that there was no proof at all the Smith had other women.
The Nice Mormon Lady always said that such claims made against Smith's reputation come from anti-Mormons who are predisposed to lie to make Smith look bad.>
This all changed, when one day out of the blue I learned that the Mormon Church had changed it's tune on the topic of Smith's many wives.
Once that news got out, the poor NML seemed to have had the wind taken out of her sails around here.
I remember she did post one or two more times later, but once people started to bring up Smith's wives she would drop out of the conversation....
Not sure what ever happened to her?....she just stopped turning up here is all I know.
quote taken from :
http://mormonstories.org/brian-hales...iths-polygamy/
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