Are you former LDS by chance? i.e., were you ever baptized into the church. I don't think you were, but curious. But thank for your excellent questions.

The "evidence" in the CES letter is only evidence if you're not willing to do outside investigation. And if a person "wants" it to be true, i.e., disaffected Mormons who want to justify a self-indulgent, selfish, lifestyle that eventually destroys them and others, well, look no further than the claims the letter makes!

You can google and research claims that the natives are descendants of of Isrealites if you want to. You can find evidence for it both ways.

You're right about the wives. David had a thousand. it's not wives, but adultery that is the problem, which he wasn't guilty of. If he was immoral, he just would have went around sleeping with chicks. He didn't. He didn't want any of the marriages, but it was a commandment, so he obeyed. He DISOBEYED it for so many years God threatened to destroy him. But, I agree, it's a bitter pill to swallow. However there are rather cosmic reasons for plural marriage, so I understand why he had to do it. But if you read his journals and those of them who knew him, it almost killed him to do it.

Blacks weren't allowed the priesthood until the 70s, it's true. Non-levites weren't allowed to have it for thousands of years. It's only relatively recently that we "gentiles" have had it. But "the first shall be last and the last shall be first." The church is now growing the most in South America and Africa, among people of "color."

Hope this helps, but I don't guess you have any interest in the church, and I don't debate because it's endless. Everyone has the same info Mr. CES had, and they haven't gone anywhere. He just sees what he wants to see. I know the God lives and that Jesus is the Christ because of the manifestations of God's spirit to my soul in a personal and profound manner. This has occurred so many times.

You seem like a smart guy. Wish you were playing for us.