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The Continued LDS Campaign against “Mormons”

08.17.2011 · Posted in FLDS, Polygamy

Ever since the FLDS raid in 2006, and the media calling the FLDS “fundamentalist Mormons” (a term the Church itself came up with in the 1940s to describe the offshoot), the Church has been eager to monopolize the term “Mormon.”  It has asserted that, in the interests of resolving public confusion, the media should only ...

prepare to be creeped out

08.12.2011 · Posted in FLDS, Polygamy

The Salt Lake Tribune has posted some of the audio recordings of Warren Jeffs instructing women on how they are supposed to have sex with him.  I’d say “enjoy” but, well, that just seems inappropriate. Views: 701 ...

Is Warren Jeffs really that different from Joseph Smith?

07.30.2011 · Posted in Polygamy

Jeffs, after staying quiet during his trial, opened up to the courtroom yesterday on the matter of his having raped a 12-year-old and impregnating a 15-year old.  He blathered for almost an hour, like he was sermonizing.  He said, You are now touching that which is sacred. This must cease. If we do not live ...

My place in Mormon history

03.29.2011 · Posted in Book Review, History, Joseph Smith, Polygamy

A lot of people — upon leaving the CoJCoL-dS — are amazed to discover how fascinating LDS church history really is. It’s not just that the whitewashed history in Sunday School is incomplete and inaccurate. It’s that you’re force-fed this watery-porridge version of church history that inoculates many people from even wanting to study more ...

Sunday in Outer Blogness: (too much) heart and brains edition!

The juiciest news this week was TLC’s new reality show “Sister Wives” portraying the lives of ordinary polygamists in Utah! As usual, the members of the CoJCoL-dS are concerned about how this affects their image. Some are also concerned about the sex aspect, but fortunately the polygamist ladies reassure us that they each sleep with ...

The Day I Sang about the “Latter-Day Glory” with the C of C and with the Polygamists

Wherever people talk about Mormonism, you always hear about the fundamentalist Mormons: the polygamists. On the LDS-interest Internet there’s tons of discussion of modern-day polygamy – usually in a hand-wringing “what should be done about them” kind of way. Naturally, I was glad when I finally got the opportunity to meet some real-life fundamentalist Mormons, ...

Book Club Discussion of “Under the Banner”

My book club recently read Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer.  Despite my interest in all things mormon, I did not recommend this book to my group. I had read it before, and found it frightening. The Lafferty murders were especially heinous (to my mind) and disturbing on many levels.  Other book club ...

a solution to the FLDS PR problem

03.14.2009 · Posted in FLDS, Polygamy, Public Relations

I’m not sure why, but an idea has been floating around in my mind the last couple of weeks. I’m not usually in the mood to help a religious group survive, but I figured this thought was worth putting into the public domain for criticism at the very least. The FLDS have a pretty serious ...

Thoughts of Nancy

09.03.2008 · Posted in Genealogy, Joseph Smith, LDS History, Polygamy, Women

It’s kind of a strange family history claim to fame: My great-great-great-great aunt, Nancy Winchester, was one of Joseph Smith’s youngest teen brides. She was fourteen or fifteen years old in 1842(3?) when she married the prophet; he was in his late thirties and was killed a year or so later. I’ve wanted to write ...