This is Emmitt's worst video yet...full of lies and half-truths and elimination of the facts. I've been a Mormon many yrs...long enough to know the Truth. She will have her day in court...God's court.
Its one thing to claim lies, it is quite another to substantiate your claims. Perhaps you should research and verify your claims before making unfounded accusations? Somehow that seem to be the more reasoned course, but perhaps you don't care for reason?
@Exmormon: There are so many half truths and bare-faced lies in this vid, too numerous to mention. Like I said, I have been a member of the Church for many yrs, but I never had a problem with the leaders or with taking instruction or direction from them as Ms Emmitt had. Pride comes before a 'fall' and I'm afraid that she was a victim of the adversary's ploys. She said that from an early age she was a bit rebellious...didn't like authority, so that explains a lot to me.
She fails to say that Polygamy was not against the law in America in the early days of the Mormon Church...not until the early 1890s did the practice become against the law. Moses, Isaac, Jacob, David and Solomon were some polygamists of the OT, mainly men of God.
I'm afraid you're quite wrong. Polygamy was always illegal in the United States. It is illegal in Mexico as well. Mormon leaders were breaking the law, hence one of the reasons for keeping it in a cloak of secrecy. The only reason Young announced it openly in 1852 was as a measure of defiance to toward the U.S. Govt. and his not fearing any reprisals from them for doing so. So much for "we believe in honoring and sustaining the law."
ExMo: Now you are falling into the same trap and being dishonest...Polygamy was never illegal in the US until the government made it illegal around 1890. You can Google the early history of the LDS Church, or Utah or 'Polygamy in the US' and get the facts. Many sources and written records to glean from : )
Sir, are you dense? BIGAMY has always been illegal in the United States. The definition of BIGAMY is to enter into marriage with another while being married to someone else. It seems to me that Mormon leaders were doing just that, or was it something else? Please enlighten us oh inspired one.
I think she may be mistaken about the entire building being burned, but according to witnesses, fire was used. Charles A. Foster, one of the publishers of the Expositor, wrote the following in a letter dated June 11, 1844: ... a company consisting of some 200 men, armed and equipped, with muskets, swords, pistols, bowie knives, sledge-hammers, &c, assisted by a crowd of several hundred minions, who volunteered their services on the occasion, marched to the building, and breaking
open the doors with a sledge-hammer, commenced the work of destruction....
They tumbled the press and materials into the street, and set fire to them, and demolished the machinery with a sledge hammer, and injured the building very materially (Warsaw Signal, June 12,1844).
She says that Joseph had the building burned where the printing press was. I don't think that's correct...didn't he just have the press destroyed? that's what I've gathered from my reading. Did I miss something?
This is Emmitt's worst video yet...full of lies and half-truths and elimination of the facts. I've been a Mormon many yrs...long enough to know the Truth. She will have her day in court...God's court.
Yunginspirit 2 years ago
Its one thing to claim lies, it is quite another to substantiate your claims. Perhaps you should research and verify your claims before making unfounded accusations? Somehow that seem to be the more reasoned course, but perhaps you don't care for reason?
Please research.
ExmormonFoundation 2 years ago
@Exmormon: There are so many half truths and bare-faced lies in this vid, too numerous to mention. Like I said, I have been a member of the Church for many yrs, but I never had a problem with the leaders or with taking instruction or direction from them as Ms Emmitt had. Pride comes before a 'fall' and I'm afraid that she was a victim of the adversary's ploys. She said that from an early age she was a bit rebellious...didn't like authority, so that explains a lot to me.
Yunginspirit 2 years ago
She fails to say that Polygamy was not against the law in America in the early days of the Mormon Church...not until the early 1890s did the practice become against the law. Moses, Isaac, Jacob, David and Solomon were some polygamists of the OT, mainly men of God.
Yunginspirit 2 years ago
I'm afraid you're quite wrong. Polygamy was always illegal in the United States. It is illegal in Mexico as well. Mormon leaders were breaking the law, hence one of the reasons for keeping it in a cloak of secrecy. The only reason Young announced it openly in 1852 was as a measure of defiance to toward the U.S. Govt. and his not fearing any reprisals from them for doing so. So much for "we believe in honoring and sustaining the law."
Please research.
ExmormonFoundation 2 years ago
ExMo: Now you are falling into the same trap and being dishonest...Polygamy was never illegal in the US until the government made it illegal around 1890. You can Google the early history of the LDS Church, or Utah or 'Polygamy in the US' and get the facts. Many sources and written records to glean from : )
Yunginspirit 2 years ago
@Yunginspirit
Sir, are you dense? BIGAMY has always been illegal in the United States. The definition of BIGAMY is to enter into marriage with another while being married to someone else. It seems to me that Mormon leaders were doing just that, or was it something else? Please enlighten us oh inspired one.
ExmormonFoundation 2 years ago
I think she may be mistaken about the entire building being burned, but according to witnesses, fire was used. Charles A. Foster, one of the publishers of the Expositor, wrote the following in a letter dated June 11, 1844: ... a company consisting of some 200 men, armed and equipped, with muskets, swords, pistols, bowie knives, sledge-hammers, &c, assisted by a crowd of several hundred minions, who volunteered their services on the occasion, marched to the building, and breaking
ExmormonFoundation 2 years ago
open the doors with a sledge-hammer, commenced the work of destruction....
They tumbled the press and materials into the street, and set fire to them, and demolished the machinery with a sledge hammer, and injured the building very materially (Warsaw Signal, June 12,1844).
ExmormonFoundation 2 years ago
Thanks for clearing that up :)
mattox21 2 years ago
She says that Joseph had the building burned where the printing press was. I don't think that's correct...didn't he just have the press destroyed? that's what I've gathered from my reading. Did I miss something?
mattox21 2 years ago