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When Joseph Smith ordered the Nauvoo Expositor printing press to be destroyed, he had no idea of the consequences. He was still young and healthy and enjoyed a life of libertine indulgences. The City Council ordered the Mayor, Joseph Smith to shut down the press, and it was legal. The outrage from ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Parish_Lovejoy Lovejoy may have been martyred over the abolition of slavery, but Joseph was martyred over the cause of keeping Mormon polygamy a deep dark sacred secret lest his followers find out. The twin vestiges of barbarism had its victims. Once they were i...

I don't think those in Nauvoo could say a public nuisance outweighed freedom of the press. Nauvoo was allowed to obtain a charter as long as they passed no laws that violated the laws of the State of Illinois or of the United States. Abraham Lincoln voted to approve the charter. What about the Morm...

What did some say prior to Joseph Smith's birth? "That magistrate is to be elected for FOUR years; and is to be re-eligible as often as the people of the United States shall think him worthy of their confidence. In these circumstances there is a total dissimilitude between HIM and a king of Great Br...

I don't believe the first century head of the church who was Peter was known as a Prophet. Prophets' and Prophetess' were part of the Hebrew Bible. More likely James the brother of Jesus was a head of the Jerusalem assembly. The gentile assemblies were led by Paul (until they abandoned him). The Je...

I don't think those in Nauvoo could say a public nuisance outweighed freedom of the press. Nauvoo was allowed to obtain a charter as long as they passed no laws that violated the laws of the State of Illinois or of the United States. Abraham Lincoln voted to approve the charter.

It's going at warp speed now. Who ever did it thank you.

Right now there is Brett Ripley, myself, and 238 guests online. How many of these guests are operatives of the Strengthening the Membership Committee? Does this popularity have anything to do with speed? The NOM site keeps going down. Are they victims of the notorious Defending the Faith Attacks? M...

It's been slow. I don't know if it's happening to others. I did a speed test and was at about 35 megabytes per second which is okay for on wireless. I check the Daily Mail which is huge and has lots of annoying pop ups. It loaded quickly. I use a Mac Air Laptop with with M1 chip and 16 gigs of ram. ...

I hope for the best outcome for you. It's possible. I have a family member who I care for dearly who is in a similar situation. Recently she found out the company providing palliative care shut down, and her oncologist wants her to get another one, but the worker of that company said she needs to be...