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LDS Church gives nod to Landmark status for Mountain Meadows site
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 03/29/2008 | Peggy Fletcher Stack

Posted on 04/03/2008 9:07:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

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To: fproy2222
Alex, do you think you can find some articles about the thousands of Latter-Day Saints killed by these folks friends and relatives, before they forced the Mormons out of their homes, in the middle of winter, to suffer and even die, from the cold?

Hmmm...this is new to me, Fred. Are you saying that friends and relatives of the Fanchers were guilty of these acts...THOUSANDS??? Are you talking about Winter Quarters? If so, click HERE Winter Quarters is in Nebraska.

The Fanchers were from Arkansas, where Parley Pratt died. From Wiki:

"On a preaching mission in the southern United States in 1857, Pratt was being tracked by Hector McLean, who was upset with Pratt for marrying his legal wife Eleanor McLean. Pratt had met Eleanor a few years earlier in San Francisco, California, and she later left Hector and moved to Utah where she married Pratt.[2] Though for religious reasons she considered herself "unmarried", Eleanor was not legally divorced from Hector at the time of her Celestial marriage to Pratt.[3]

McLean pressed criminal charges, accusing Pratt of coming between him and his legal wife. Pratt managed to evade him and the legal charges, but was finally arrested in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He was tried before Judge John B Ogden, but was only charged with stealing children's clothes. He had helped his wife Eleanor retrieve her children who had been taken from her by McLean. Judge Ogden acquitted Pratt of the charges against him and released him. However, shortly afterward, on 13 May 1857, he was killed by Hector McLean on a farm northeast of Van Buren, Arkansas. Pratt was buried near Alma, Arkansas."

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The mormons were incensed at the death of Pratt. Your post sounds like a half-true lie to me.

21 posted on 04/04/2008 7:31:18 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: greyfoxx39; Elsie; colorcountry

The scene, a waterfront bar in San Francisco

Parley: Well hello there, whuts yer name?
Eleanor: Eleanor
Parley: Hello, I’m Parley, Where ya frum?
Eleanor: Arkansas
Parley: Whuts yer sign?
Eleanor: Dunno, whuts a sign?
Parley: Hold muh hand, I’ll give ya a sign....Halalulu! Now yer muh speshul heavenly wife.


22 posted on 04/04/2008 9:15:35 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where the world comes to see America!)
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To: Utah Binger

Where ya been, my homey?


23 posted on 04/04/2008 10:08:40 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: greyfoxx39

Isn’t it ‘Fred’ who is constantly accusing folks of half-truth lies? Is the ol’ sod now ‘lying for the lord’ with a half-truth lie of his own, so he doesn’t count his half-truth as a lie?


24 posted on 04/04/2008 10:17:11 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: colorcountry
Where ya been, my homey?

Busted water pipes, broken valves, fixing sunken parking lot on my trusty Kabota

Cocktails on the patio or the deck tonight? Kubota is waiting for you. Whuts yer sign?

25 posted on 04/04/2008 10:29:10 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where the world comes to see America!)
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To: Utah Binger

I’m a Vertigo....especially after drinks on the patio.

How ‘bout U?


26 posted on 04/04/2008 10:34:50 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: colorcountry

Me too except we call it Virgo in this neck of the woods. Especially before the drinks. On the cusp though. Leo/Virgo.


27 posted on 04/04/2008 10:52:56 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where the world comes to see America!)
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To: Utah Binger

As Virgos, it is no wonder we drink.... we have to forget how ‘perfect’ we are.


28 posted on 04/04/2008 10:55:38 AM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Alex Murphy; All

I am glad the Saints finally quit tearing down the monuments constructed by the U.S. Army and the Fancher family members (at least eight by my count), before putting up this permanent memorial.

I wish, however, the Mormons would honor the family members' request to erect a cross at the site.

Incidentally, you can read much more about the Massacre, John Lee's trial, and the Mormon cover-up (including Brigham Young's involvement) HERE in this excellent site prepared by a law professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City.

29 posted on 04/04/2008 11:13:42 AM PDT by Zakeet (Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for)
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To: fproy2222
Judging from your idiotic post one could get the impression that the murders at MM was justifiable.

These INNOCENT people from ARKANSAS were butchered and their bones scattered.

What kind of proof do you have that these innocent victims of Mormon butchery were friends or relatives of the people in Illinois where the Mormons lived before they moved out West?

30 posted on 04/04/2008 11:39:19 AM PDT by JRochelle (Voting Obama on May 6.)
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To: JRochelle
Judging from your idiotic post one could get the impression that the murders at MM was justifiable.

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Not saying it was justified, it just seems to me that the anti’s here at FR, and other places, want to make it seem that all of the LDS history is bad because of ONE, REPEAT, ONE such incedent, while ignoring the hundreds of “good christians” that did many , many times worse.

I think that it is amassing that the Saints controlled their feelings and actions so well that only ONE group was attracted, given the thousands of opportunities to act like the “real christians” who caused the deaths and suffering of thousands of Saints.

31 posted on 04/04/2008 12:18:20 PM PDT by fproy2222 ( Jesus is the Christ)
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To: fproy2222
... given the thousands of opportunities to act like the “real christians” who caused the deaths and suffering of thousands of Saints.

Fred,

Do you have one bit of proof to back up this outrageous accusation?

If so, would you please post links to credible references.

Thanks

/Zak

32 posted on 04/04/2008 12:24:08 PM PDT by Zakeet (Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for)
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To: fproy2222
What are you saying?

That all the time in IL, the Mormons just ‘took it’?

They didn't. It was called the Mormon Wars for a reason.

Mormons were killed by non-mormons. Non-mormons were killed by Mormons.

It wasn't just ONE incident. Good grief, if you are a Mormons, you sure are lacking in your knowledge of your own religion's past.

Of course they tend to dwell on only the ones where the Mormons were the victims.

33 posted on 04/04/2008 12:29:41 PM PDT by JRochelle (Voting Obama on May 6.)
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To: Gamecock
>>>But seriously folks, someone seems to think there is evidence that Young ordered the massacre.

Just like some claim that Bush Knew about 9/11 as well.

34 posted on 04/04/2008 4:10:12 PM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Utah Binger

ROTFL....been missin’ your comments!


35 posted on 04/04/2008 4:25:24 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: colorcountry; Utah
As Virgos, it is no wonder we drink.... we have to forget how ‘perfect’ we are.

Yep, every Virgo I ever met thought he was perfect! Us Sags just pull out our trusty bow, (you know what a "bow" is, don't ya, cc?) and shoot 'em in their perfect hineys. THAT puts a dent in their perfection!

36 posted on 04/04/2008 4:28:43 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: fproy2222
hundreds of “good christians” that did many , many times worse.

THAT, is a "full-true lie!" What, pray tell, is "many, many times worse" than ambushing from secret and killing every man, woman and child over the age of eight?

Source and links for these acts you are accusing Christians of.

You didn't answer my post about the "friends and relatives" claim you made, Fred...can't you back up your "half-true lie"?

37 posted on 04/04/2008 4:33:45 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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38 posted on 04/04/2008 4:35:17 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (An "Inconvenient Truth".....Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: fproy2222
Not saying it was justified, it just seems to me that the anti’s here at FR, and other places, want to make it seem that all of the LDS history is bad because of ONE, REPEAT, ONE such incedent, while ignoring the hundreds of “good christians” that did many , many times worse.

Come on, add this with the illegal destruction of the Nauvoo Examiner, murderous raids by the Danites and ripping the people of Kirkland off, just for starters. During the period of the massacre, mormons were either denying or extorting the immigrants of there limited resources for supplies. Young was ranting about his 'blood atonement' and all. No, the Christians time and again didn't pick the fight, but they wouldn't cowtow either to the general and king smith.

39 posted on 04/04/2008 5:15:18 PM PDT by Godzilla (The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: greyfoxx39

I love Sags. No wonder I love you, FRiend!


40 posted on 04/04/2008 7:08:20 PM PDT by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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