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After the Mormons stormed a private newspaper and smashed the presses for printing bad press about them. And raised a militia... And tried to use said militia to break Joseph Smith out of jail. There's two sides to that story. The states side is preserved in law. The Mormons weren't just sitting around reading their Bibles.
I don't agree with the law lasting as long as it did. But that story is basically a who's who miserable religious fundamentalist who fucked off and founded Utah.
Edit - I was wrong. Smith was killed in Illinois. I'd encourage you to read up on it. It's a crazy story.
When a government promotes killing people for their religion, there are never two sides to the story. Civilized places prosecute individuals using due process.
I’m familiar with the story.
Missourians hated Smith so much they gathered into another mob (Mormons were chased across Missouri by mob after mob) and went and executed him in another state. He was taking their chattel, they didn’t cotton to that.
Now,..I don’t think he was a great man or a prophet; more like a grifting, glass-looking scammer. But I certainly don’t agree with any government order to execute any group of people on sight.
I dont know. Smith was a grifter like you said, and blew up his own cult just so he could fuck as many teenage girls as he wanted. He essentially institutionalized child abuse by church elders such that the US army had to be called in, and there are still groups of cultists who still do this. Smith was essentially above the law, and was preparing to marshal an army to resist the US government for the right to fuck every child