Mormon founder Joseph Smith had a teen bride and was a polygamist

[Nick the Pilot]

Mormon founder had teen bride during polygamy days

"The Mormon church acknowledges in a new essay that founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the faith's early polygamous days, a recognition of an unflattering part of its roots that historians have chronicled for years.

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says most of Smith's wives were between 20 and 40 years old. One of them, however, was a 14-year-old girl who was the daughter of Smith's close friends."

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[wil]

With parental consent, I believe Utah still allows marriage at 14

 

[Nick the Pilot]

No wonder...

 

[The Adept]

The Nicolaitanes are the followers of that Nicolas who was one of the seven first ordained to the diaconate by the apostles. They lead lives of unrestrained indulgence. The character of these men is very plainly pointed out in the Apocalypse of John, [when they are represented] as teaching that it is a matter of indifference to practice adultery, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
—Irenaeus, Adversus haereses, i. 26, §3
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The common statement, that the Nicolaitans held the antinomian heresy of 1 Corinthians 6, has not been proved.[3] Victorinus of Pettau states that they ate things offered to idols.[4] Bede states that Nicolas allowed other men to marry his wife.[5] Thomas Aquinas believed that Nicholas supported either polygamy or the holding of wives in common.[6] Eusebius claimed that the sect was short-lived.[7]


It is also written that a Bishop must be married.