sock puppet wrote:Statutorily banning from voting residents of a state (Idaho) if they believed in marriage that lasted beyond this life. (It remained on the books as a statute, albeit not enforced for many decades, until the 1990s, when at last the Idaho Legislature repealed it.)
This is new information!
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That's great one, Sox.
I think it took more than the legislature. I believe the measure was part of the state constitution and required a plebiscite to repeal it.
sock puppet wrote:Statutorily banning from voting residents of a state (Idaho) if they believed in marriage that lasted beyond this life. (It remained on the books as a statute, albeit not enforced for many decades, until the 1990s, when at last the Idaho Legislature repealed it.)
just me wrote:This is new information!
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Morley wrote:That's great one, Sox.
I think it took more than the legislature. I believe the measure was part of the state constitution and required a plebiscite to repeal it.
The worst thing that LDS critics have done? Why there is one that is head and shoulders above the rest by critics. Critics have made known, broad and wide, the problems with Mormonism's truth claims posed by the historical record.
For example, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York must be perhaps the greatest institutional critic of the Mormon Church. After all, discovering that it had the lost papyri and publicly returning it to the Mormon Church in the 1960s is one of the most dastardly things that any critic could ever do to the Mormon Church.
MsJack wrote:7. Any lies about or intentional misrepresentation of LDS beliefs in an attempt to paint Mormons in a bad light
Pot calls kettle black.
2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. 2 Tim 4:4 They will turn their ears away from the truth & turn aside to myths
I suppose that's similar to conflating a Mopologist with a Mormon!
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
harmony wrote:You don't condemn those who killed Joseph? Those who threw women and children out into the winter? Those who issued an extermination order than lasted over 100 years? You think relentlessly hounding someone or meddling in others' business is okay?
That's not me being "chapel". That's just me being true to myself.
All is fair in love and war.
Joseph lived and died by the sword.
Most, if not all of the woes that the followers of Joe and Brigham endured was due to their own fault for following these fools.
That is just nonsense. There was no "war"; there was murder. Joseph certainly did not live by the sword. Neither did Brigham. And the followers were not at "fault".
Good grief.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.