$152 million settlement against Warren Jeffs

[Dr Moore]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/07/01/ ... n-ex-flds/

“The judgment will send a clear message about the terrible things [my] clients suffered at Jeffs’ hands and the harm that so many other former and current members continue to suffer,” he wrote. “The judgment is largely symbolic and will be challenging to collect, but it will help vindicate the harms suffered by the FLDS under Jeffs’ reign.”

Wow.

[drumdude]

You don't have to go back very far to see the origins of this nightmare stemming from LDS leaders Lorenzo Snow, and Joseph F Smith.

Rulon Jeffs was the father of later FLDS Church leader and convicted felon Warren Jeffs. Jeffs was raised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and served in the British mission from June 1930 to August 1932.

Jeffs' father did not introduce him to the teachings of Mormon fundamentalism until September 25, 1938, at the elder Jeffs' birthday dinner, where he presented his son with a copy of Joseph W. Musser's Truth magazine.

On Thanksgiving Day 1899, in the company of four other couples, Musser and his wife, Rose Selms Borquist, received their Second Anointing at the unusually young age of twenty-seven, under the direction of Lorenzo Snow. Musser was later told by apostle Brigham Young, Jr. that he had been sent by the President of the Church, Joseph F. Smith, to tell Musser that if he did not enter into the principle of plural marriage he would lose his blessings (presumably, the blessings promised in the Second Anointing). This likely suggested to Musser that living plural marriage was a pre-requisite qualification for the blessings of the Second Anointing, regardless of the previous administration of the ordinance.

In November 1901, Musser was made president of the 105th Quorum of Seventy, and would later also serve as a high councilor in the Uintah, Wasatch and Granite Stakes (being set apart by president Joseph F. Smith). "On 16 February 1903 Patriarch John M. Murdock ordained Musser to the office of High Priest. He was then the husband to two women; both marriages were post-Manifesto". Musser was also the Duchesne Uintah branch president beginning in 1906.

[Philo Sofee]

Warren Jeffs is the Mormon nightmare of what today's Joseph Smith would have been, because he was that in his day. I get that it is a very bitter pill to swallow. It is no wonder the new movement within Mormonism itself to deny categorically that Joseph Smith did not practice, condone, or do anything with polygamy. Bill Reel, of course, has completely dismantled this obfuscation with real evidence from the Joseph Smith Papers, first hand documents, and various diaries of people involved with polygamy thanks to Joseph Smith getting them involved secretly behind closed doors. The first attempt with Brigham Young fiasco is hilarious! But Brigham made up for it later in the beloved state of Deseret, outdoing Smith with numbers of wives by a landslide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI8PN_kI6H4

Never let the facts get in the way of your cleaning up dirty laundry history in Mormonism appears to be the new philosophy. Perhaps Dr. Peterson can help 'em out and find a way to subtly deny Smith did polygamy as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9wy3b0LOuA