thread: 2007-02-13 : Exorcism
On 2007-02-13, Matt Kimball wrote:
On the subject of fourteen year old wives and people not being aware of them, I am sometimes fond of pointing out to my (Mormon) father that my great-great-grandfather, his great-grandfather, gave away his fourteen year old daughter to Joseph Smith as a wife, particularly when he plays the old "we can't judge early Mormon polygamy by our modern standards" card. He will be taken aback, and ask for a reference, and say, "Where did you read that? On the Internet?"
And I'm like, "The internets wouldn't lie to me, would they?" But, of course, it's just conversation fodder, so I don't run to the nearest reference library to provide him a proper citation.
