degaston wrote:Nearly 10 years later Levi Savage Jr. at age 48 married his 2 stepdaughters.
Man, I love Mormon history.
Man, I hate Mormon history.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Pollypinks wrote:And another thought, since most people with that much age difference between spouses are in the pedophile range...
This part's not true. Being attracted to fully developed young women, which almost all late teens are, is just as normal for a man when he is 50 as it was when he was 20.
Whether pursuing that attraction is appropriate is an entirely different question. But the fact that certain actions may be creepy and inappropriate doesn't make them pedophilia.
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