ldsfaqs wrote:just me wrote:So, the men who fathered children with their polygamous wives in Nauvoo were actually just adulterers?
There WAS a "transition" period in Nauvoo when there were polygamous marriages occurring slightly before leaving Nauvoo.
So yes, there was Polygamy in Nauvoo, just not officially until Utah.
My main point was simply that when Joseph said what he said, the Church and he wasn't practicing it.
This is a contradiction. Sorry. Everyone believes that a select group in the church and Joseph were practicing it...except for a very small faction from the Community of Christ. Joseph lied. He was a liar, liar and his pants were ablaze!
You need to pay attention to what I actually wrote. The anti's claim Mormons believe and taught that Polygamy was "not illegal". It was.
I was stating that there was a "belief" by some in the Church that it was not illegal, but it was.
In other words, the anti's created a strawman of "Mormons believing the practice was "legal", so we must now ATTACK that belief.
No. That is not what the critics mean. They are criticizing the church for participating and promoting an illegal activity.
It's not "my God"..... If a law is unjust, immoral, unfair, then in certain cases absolutely.
The "spirit" of the law especially in relation to Eternal Law is what we are to first follow, and then the letter of the law according to it's conformity to the spirit of the law.
I'm a free thinker..... I don't follow rules/laws simply because they exist. I follow what is right period, end of story. So you're darn right it's okay to break the law as is necessary.
If the law told me to murder I'm not going to do it..... Are you? Thus why are you condemning me? Why are you misrepresenting thus likewise Mormonism, as if we are zombies and are ONLY TO FOLLOW THE ARTICLE OF FAITH, even though it's NOT EVEN actual revelation???
A summary of our beliefs written as a letter to a paper or whatever and simply included in our scriptures is not "doctrine", nor is it "infallible" and addresses all nuances.
Anti-mormon "one track minds" is why you people have problems in falsely judging Mormonism and it's members. You don't know how to think in multi-faceted ways to see and understand other important details.
Huh. So intellectual property rights are unjust laws? Yeah, those people who come up with things sure don't deserve to get paid for their work, creativity and inventions.
The Doctrine & Covenants claims that the law would not need to be broken in order to keep the law of god, by the way.
Also, half this portion of your comments make it sound like you aren't very familiar with Mormonism. I am a Mormon and I sure think you are full of it. The Articles of Faith are doctrine. They appear in the canon and they have been accepted by the membership. Oh, and they say we believe in being subject to the leaders of our countries, etc.
