I think the point is that not getting into legal trouble is an important tenet of Mormonism (since obeying the law was one of those 13 “Articles of Faith”), so that a group that’s got into a lot of legal trouble is unlikely to be The One True LDS Church.
I think the point is that not getting into legal trouble is an important tenet of Mormonism (since obeying the law was one of those 13 “Articles of Faith”), so that a group that’s got into a lot of legal trouble is unlikely to be The One True LDS Church.
Cheers. I understand what he means now, but it still seems like a particularly peculiar belief.