You are free to believe what you want to. I am not always right but most of the time I am. Not sure where you are trying to go with your points. I am just saying what I see and how I feel. If it makes you feel good to correct me, ok. This is just how I see it. I think the church wants you to think he was a polygamist because I just do. I made all the comments that I intend to make.
I'm only correcting you on the historical facts--not opinions--which are that Smith practiced polygamy, there is contemporary evidence to back this up--and that his assault took place in Hiram (not Kirtland) and took place well before the Fanny Alger incident.
I did agree with a lot of your conclusions. But it only hurts your case when you try and deny that Smith practiced polygamy and that they made up evidence later to back it up. They had a "spiritual wife" system in place in Nauvoo during Smith's lifetime (polygamy). They were performing "Celestial Marriages" and adding wives to themselves (polygamy). There is just too much evidence to deny this. It's rather childish to try and psychoanalyze someone over facts. You have no idea how I "feel" about you, obviously. I don't know you, I only know what the evidence is, and some of it you are dead wrong about. Calling it what it is (polygamy) doesn't do Joseph Smith any favors. He still broke the law, still committed adultery, and still married 14 year olds in addition to his affairs.
The church WANTS me to think Joseph was a polygamist because you just do? What does that even mean? No, the church has been trying to obfuscate Smith's practice of polygamy. Mormon apologists have been promoting the idea that Smith was only sealed to many of his wives. That is why this is big news now. The evidence proves that he practiced it.
