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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Incidentally, I heard lots of stories about Carthage, but never once was I told growing up about the Nauvoo Expositor's destruction.
I think that's why its mention touches so many nerves. We realize that we were never told the whole story. We were never told about Joseph marrying other men's wives, we were never told that Joseph was accused by William Law of trying to seduce his wife, thus leading to his disaffilation and starting the Nauvoo Expositor.
It's much more messy than we were ever told.
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There are good people, especially those not all that well educated who don't understand all the virtues of free speech and press. Heck, I'd say there are probably people who post on here who aren't all that high on the idea of a free press but they live with it because the founding fathers wrote the first amendment. The first amendment would not pass today.