Brigham Young did not advocate for the word of wisdom.

[_Bazooka]

Wine stores » In the fall of 1860, LDS Church President Brigham Young sent families to Southern Utah to grow cash crops including cotton, sugar, tobacco, figs and grapes. The latter would be used to make wine for the sacrament, as medicine and for trade. "The grapes really took off and they grew thousands of bushels a year," said Cheney. "It was pretty much their main crop." At that time, Cheney said, Mormons paid tithing in products and commodities, such as a bushel of wheat or a pound of butter. With so much wine being made, the Mormons living in Dixie "sent thousand of gallons of wine to Salt Lake City" and the tithing houses quickly developed surpluses, he said.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainm ... n.html.csp

So, the second Prophet of the church implemented a non-divine racist policy of his own making and capitalised in products that were explicitly counselled against in a direct revelation from God.


*I note also that wine (as well as black slaves) was acceptable as tithing.

[_beanboots]

Wine stores » In the fall of 1860, LDS Church President Brigham Young sent families to Southern Utah to grow cash crops including cotton, sugar, tobacco, figs and grapes. The latter would be used to make wine for the sacrament, as medicine and for trade. "The grapes really took off and they grew thousands of bushels a year," said Cheney. "It was pretty much their main crop." At that time, Cheney said, Mormons paid tithing in products and commodities, such as a bushel of wheat or a pound of butter. With so much wine being made, the Mormons living in Dixie "sent thousand of gallons of wine to Salt Lake City" and the tithing houses quickly developed surpluses, he said.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainm ... n.html.csp

So, the second Prophet of the church implemented a non-divine racist policy of his own making and capitalised in products that were explicitly counselled against in a direct revelation from God.


*I note also that wine (as well as black slaves) was acceptable as tithing.

The construction of the Hotel Utah (JSMB) was paid for by the bar in the basement (now a family history center and a distribution services).

http://books.google.com/books?ei=nnrPU6KGBZKcyATNkIGgAw&id=SnTZAAAAMAAJ&dq=The+largest+and+finest+bar+in+the+West+%5Bwas+built%5D+in+the+basement+of+the+Hotel+utah&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=bar - Approaching Zion, Hugh Nibley, p. 470

[_kamenraider]

D&C 89: 5-6
5 That inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him.
6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, pure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.

I have frequently said it to my brethren and sisters—if they cannot live without tea, coffee, brandy, whiskey, wine, beer, tobacco, &c., they can die without them.
--Brigham Young, October 30, 1870, John Dehlin 13:276.

[_Tim the Enchanter]

My parents have had a beer mug that looks just like one below since I was a kid. Growing up, it was explained to me that Pabst, not knowing that Mormons didn't drink beer, thought they could cash in by selling these beer mugs to Mormons who were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Utah.

Now, I think it is far more likely that Pabst did this because beer drinking was common among Mormons at the time.

[_sock puppet]

My parents have had a beer mug that looks just like one below since I was a kid. Growing up, it was explained to me that Pabst, not knowing that Mormons didn't drink beer, thought they could cash in by selling these beer mugs to Mormons who were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Utah.

Now, I think it is far more likely that Pabst did this because beer drinking was common among Mormons at the time.

Are your parents direct descendants of Wilford Woodruff, a purveyor of revising history?

[_Tim the Enchanter]

Are your parents direct descendants of Wilford Woodruff, a purveyor of revising history?

I wonder if my parents knew the truth and lied or just repeated a lie that originated somewhere in our family's history.