[Grig]

“Oh, yeah, and about his casual reference to Evangelicals and Moslems being nutjobs...”

Not what I said. I said the theoretical individual would be a nutjob, not all people of that faith.

Joseph Smith was killed while he was a presidential candidate, and the mob that did it wasn’t motivated by politics but by religious intolerance. There has been some very inflammatory rhetoric from some corners of the evangelical world about having a Mormon POTUS that could incite a nutjob to violence.

[muawiyah]

It's well known that the mob that went after JS had been members ~ they wanted him dealt with harshly for hornswaggling them or something. The officials in the territory were certainly not his friends either were they.

Dude had a gun in jail.

That, BTW, is an intersting piece of history. That was a common practice in frontier America. You just never separated a man from his piece ~ he might well need it! But, he wasn't going to escape from jail if he said he wasn't.

[colorcountry]

Joseph Smith was killed while he was a presidential candidate, and the mob that did it wasn’t motivated by politics but by religious intolerance.

Please tell me Grig, just how you came to that conclusion. Was it because your LDS church presented you with that 'motivation?"

Because the true facts are:

Joseph Smith was a serial fornicator.

He was arrested for a violation of the 1st amendment rights of an individual who had the audacity to publish embarrassing facts against him.

He had instigated attacks on the property rights of other settlers.

He was a heretical heathen who was brazen enough to try to install himself as King.

Now tell me again how he was killed for his faith in Jesus Christ!