[Ripliancum]

Ron Howard seems infatuated with LDS splinter groups. He produced Big Love too. Now he’s taking on the Lafferty brothers, who were excommunicated from the LDS Church when they started to practice polygamy, and then eventually started killing people.

I wonder what his next project will be.

[Colofornian]

Now he’s taking on the Lafferty brothers, who were excommunicated from the LDS Church when they started to practice polygamy, and then eventually started killing people.

Nice distortion, Rip.

Here, Mormons don't like it when you implicate ALL Mormons in the behavior of some; yet what does he do of Ron Lafferty? He accuses him of engaging in polygamy!

I'm not sure even how many of his brothers were actual polygamists...even if they indeed were advocating it.

ALL: The reality is that Ron Lafferty wasn't some wild-eyed fundamentalist polygamist. Ron Lafferty, who had a "revelation" to kill his sister-in-law, had been n upstanding Highland, UT city councilman plus both a first counselor to the local Lds bishop and an LDS youth leader!

(Of course, Ripliancum doesn't mention those little facts, does he?)

Now, it is true that Ron Lafferty was convinced by his brothers that they should take Lds "scriptures" like Lds Doctrines & Covenants 68:2-4 seriously -- about how ALL Mormon priesthood members are allowed to have "revelations" from God.

And, as the article says: Ron and Dan Lafferty belonged to the School of Prophets. Here they deepened their so-called Mormon faith. Ron called himself the “Voice of God” and Dan was the self-proclaimed “Arm of God”. This church believed in “revelations”, some of which told them to “remove” people: people like Brenda Lafferty. “Yes, I think I noted that as a revelation that I received while I was in the school of prophets, yes,” said Ron Lafferty in a Death Row interview with ABC 4...

I blame Joseph Smith as an accomplice in those deaths because of his wreckless "revelations" in D&C 68!!!

[Colofornian]

Now he’s taking on the Lafferty brothers, who were excommunicated from the LDS Church when they started to practice polygamy, and then eventually started killing people.

As I mentioned in the previous post, Ron Lafferty wasn't a polygamist. The Lds church ex-communicated him for advocating it -- as his wife remained Lds and didn't go along with it. Since she divorced him, how could he be a polygamist at the point of ex-communication?

Rip, you're just full of it and bluster prevarications whereever it seems fit to lay 'em down, eh?

I rechecked an extremely long article in the 2004 Deseret News -- owned by the Mormon church -- to see if they...20 years after the fact...took the same "wild-eyed murderous fundamentalist polygamist" tact that Ripliancum tried on you posters.

The short answer is simply "Nope. They don't." In fact, the article asks the question:

"What most neighbors wonder is how two GOOD MORMON BOYS, including one who would serve as a bishop's counselor, could commit murder in the name of God." (Mormon church-owned newspaper, Deseret News, July 27, 2004) URL for quote: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595079489/1984-Lafferty-case-still-haunts.html?pg=5

ALL: Quite a contrast to Ripliancum's spin he tried on you about some wild-eyed Mormon polygamists on the loose, eh?

If you want to an answer to the DesNews' 2004 question, why, all you have to do is look @ less-than-11 dozen years prior to those '84 murders to a lovely spot in Utah named Mountain Meadows. There, you had the Lafferty murders times 60 committed by dozens of devoted mainstream Mormons!

[Elsie]

I wonder what his next project will be.

I Don't Know That...

Starring:

Andy Serkis

as...

[Elsie]

Ron Howard seems infatuated with LDS splinter groups.

Then it appears that he'll NEVER run out of material!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sects_in_the_Latter_Day_Saint_movement

(I guess Ol' Joe didn't hold his church together at all!)