Polygamy and raping children are not the same thing. Both are destructive and evil but they I don’t think the early LDS church supported marriage between 50 yr old men and 14 yr old girls.
I don’t think the early LDS church supported marriage between 50 yr old men and 14 yr old girls.
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You would be incorrect in that. All of the early LDS leaders and prophets (Young, Pratt, Joseph F Smith, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, John Taylor) took child brides well past their 50’s and some into their 80’s.
And, polygamy has never been condemned or repudiated. When asked, the LDS will say “we got rid of that 100 yrs ago” or ‘we no longer practice it’, but the ‘revelation’ regarding polygamy that these groups use (Doctrine and Covenants 132) is still in LDS scripture, still believed and still supported. There are also many rank and file LDS who are looking forward to the time when the LDS church is considered ‘worthy’ again and polygamy will be restored.
The more you know about polygamy, the more disgusting it is.
“I don’t think the early LDS church supported marriage between 50 yr old men and 14 yr old girls.”
It didn’t support adultery but church leaders married other mens wives.