Originally Posted by
nrajeffreturns
My answer would be: IMO, a dozen "casual" encounters with people you just met that day from a bar or brothel, and have no love for and no intention of providing for, is terrible, compared to the COMMITMENT that courtship followed by MARRIAGE for life entails.
Perhaps.
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act became law in 1862. Joseph Smith was killed in 1844.
Many of them were merely sealed to him in the afterlife, which federal laws really can't touch.
I don't know and neither do you; we weren't there.
According to all available evidence, Smith was the father of none of those women. So your only recourse is hearsay and allegations.
If his marriages were not really illegal, I'd say he was free to do what any married man is free to do.
I don't think you can back that allegation/opinion of yours up with a quote. Prove me wrong.