This was very telling...

[_LifeOnaPlate]

It's telling that the salamandersociety folks are hard up for for objects of ridicule of late.

[_the road to hana]

It's telling that the salamandersociety folks are hard up for for objects of ridicule of late.

That's pretty benign for Salamander Society, LOAP.

I've talked to some Mormon friends this week who said that until this story arose in the press, their children didn't even know that the LDS Church had ever practiced polygamy. I think it's good to get things out there to educate the public, and that includes the general membership of the LDS Church, that the relationship is much closer than the LDS leadership would have the public believe.

These people have a tradition that traces back to the mainstream LDS Church, and to Joseph Smith. This isn't some splinter group that arose out of nowhere and decided to just go to DI to buy someone else's hymnals.

The had the full support and approval of the mainstream church until after the Second Manifesto was issued. Many of us here could just as easily have been born into it as mainstream Mormonism.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Hence, the photo of the hymnbook is very telling.

[_the road to hana]

Hence, the photo of the hymnbook is very telling.

Yes. I talked to one Mormon this week whose own children didn't realize they were descended from polygamist ancestors, and were shocked to learn it.

When did this change? We were raised as LDS children knowing polygamy was an important principle in the church that wasn't currently being practiced, but eventually would return.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Sounds good.