[Elsie]

OTOH, the standard language and procedure would be...

Which 'language'?

What most people understand; or the revised meanings that MormonISM gives to Christian words?

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Imagine a society of Latter Day-saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals.

Crimes or deviance, properly so-called, will there be unknown; but faults, which appear venial to the Gentile,

will there create the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousnesses.

If then, this society has the power to judge and punish, it will define these acts as criminal (or deviant) and will treat them as such.

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Thanks to Émile Durkheim

[Elsie]

We thank Thee, oh GOD, for a Prophet.

(not a prophetess...)