[FastCoyote]

I have become something of an historian on the early Mormon church, the events surrounding Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young are disturbing. My latest find is “Wife No. 19 or A STORY OF LIFE IN BONDAGE Being a Complete Expose of Mormonism and Revealing the Sorrows Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy” By Ann Eliza Young, apostate wife of Brigham Young.

http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/19thwife/19thwifedownload.htm

The downloads are above. Her account of the Meadows Mountain Massacre is chilling (chapter 13), Young was trying to starve out the settlers even before the massacre.

The point is, a lot of the historical baggage of the church will inevitably be sucked into any Romney presidency. What a disaster waiting to happen.

[greyfoxx39]

Thanks for the link, FC.

[broncobilly]

I have become something of an historian on the early Mormon church

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Judging from your post, searcher for anti-Mormon sensationalism would be more descriptive.

[RobbyS]

Smith and Young are long since dead. The most objectionable part of mormonism—in the minds of the public— died with the new “revelation” by the Mormon president that polygamy was not the right way. As for the presrnt form of Mormonism, I find it more “Christian” than the theology of the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. That is to say, the Church of former President George H.W. Bush. So far as I know, he has never said a word about the latest developments.