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Faithful members of the church do not set policy or doctrine. Bruce R. McConckie was a faithful apostle, and his book “Mormon Doctrine” was never considered MORMON DOCTRINE. Need there be any better example of what I mean?

IIRC I think I quoted the Mormon PROPHET Brigham Young.

You claimed that OB Huntington was discredited.

Are you also going to discredit Brigham Young?

If you won't, then I'll be more than happy to oblige.

Hahaha. This goes right to the heart of all you anti’s approach. You constantly bring up snippets here or there that may or may not have been said, but you can't bring yourself to understand that prophets are not infallible, both anciently and modern.

Absolutely I discredit a “I rather think they do” statement by BY as being non-doctrinal. He was a man, first, prophet of the Lord second.

Do you equally discredit all ancient prophets who (oops, yes, were human)

Noah occasionally drank wine to the point of drunkenness and unconsciousness (Genesis 9:21, 23). Abraham acquiesced in his wife's mistreatment of his second wife (Genesis 16:6). Jacob “with subtlety” and deception obtained his brother's blessing from his blind father Isaac (Genesis 27:12, 35), and also hated his first wife Leah (Genesis 29:30-31). Moses at the least committed manslaughter prior to his call as a prophet (Exodus 2:12-14), and after that call occasionally exhibited doubt in God's word, fierce anger, and boastful arrogance (Exodus 4:10-14, 5:22-23, 32:19; Numbers 20:10-12). The Lord had to intervene directly to prevent Samuel from choosing the wrong man as king (1 Samuel 16:6-7). Daniel sought forgiveness for his sins while prophet (Daniel 9:20). Jonah resisted the commandment of God to him (Jonah 1:2-3, 4:1) James and John, as apostles, delighted in the thought of their opponents being destroyed (Luke 9:52-56) and pridefully sought to elevate themselves above the rest of God's children in the eternities (Mark 10:35-38). Peter was impudent, boastful, arrogant, and cowardly as an apostle during the life of Jesus (Matthew 16:21-23, 26:69-75; John 13:8-9, 18:10-11). Despite Christ's command to send the Gospel to all nations at His ascension (Matthew 27:19; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:47), it required another specific revelation to Peter to persuade him that the Gospel should be taken to those who were not Jews (Acts 10-11), and even years after that revelation Peter continued to demonstrate his prejudice (Galatians 2:1,9,11-14). Nor did Peter hesitate to criticize the approach of his fellow apostle Paul in teaching the Gospel (2 Peter 3:15-16); Paul likewise boasted that he had publicly condemned Peter and “withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed” (Galatians 2:11-14). Moreover, conflicts between Barnabus and Paul resulted in the disruption of their mission (Acts 13:2, 15:36-39)

That all said, all these men were of God, and strove to do his will as they understood it. They were prophets yes, but they were also me. Why can't you understand that?