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DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS SECTION 132
5157, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 5866, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.
51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.
52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.
53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.
55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
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OK, that I didn’t hear about.
Emma made a big mistake there. But the Lord commanded her to be true and faithful. Beating someone up with a broom doesn’t really fall into that range.
And as for Joesph, he made a big mistake in not following his own rules there. But as I said, our church denounces polygamy and no one EVER, EVER, married a young child. EVER. And our Church has long since denounced polygamy. It is wrong. Maybe back then it was needed because our Church needed more children because every day more members were being KILLED and raped in the case of women, by mobs. Joseph himself was murdered in Liberty Jail by the mob.
By the way, you seem to have ignored what I said about Joseph knowing things he shouldn’t... I thought that was liberal strategy?
Look, I’ll leave your religion alone if you leave mine alone. Our church has a dark past. But we have a clean slate now and if my Church ever does something like polygamy again, I will be the first to tell you you were right and leave it. Are we OK here?