LDS: Anti-Polygamy Laws Aimed at Religion, not Morality

14 December

Is anti-polygamy laws religious persecution?

Blood Atonement for Adultery

13 November

Journal of Discourses 3:246-247 “A year will not pass away before some few of them are guilty of creeping into widows’ houses, and into bed with the wives of their brethren, debauching one woman here, and another there. … There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not […]

Heber Kimball is Dictator to Wives

24 September

Journal of Discourses 4:81 “I do not consider that one of my wives, or one of my children, has a right to partake of these emblems, until they make a full and proper restitution to me, if they have offended me. Why is this? Because I am their head, I am their governor, their dictator, their […]

‘Integrity’, aka Lies, of Mormon Prophets

21 August

“Chapter 7: Integrity,” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor (2011), 58–65 “The following is a portion of that tribute describing the stalwart character and integrity of this beloved prophet: “Few men have ever lived who have manifested such integrity and such unflinching moral and physical courage as our beloved President who has just gone from us. […]

Mormonism: Women Created for Marriage and Motherhood

24 January

Journal of Discourses 25:228; “…it [polygamy] is a pure and holy institution; not to bring women into bondage, but to place them in that position for which they were created—to give them the opportunity to become honored wives and mothers…” – Charles W. Penrose, Salt Lake City, July 26, 1884 Isaiah 43:7; “Even every one that is […]

Contradictions in Joseph Smith’s Polygamy Revelations

06 January

Oh, what a tangled web we weave… Today’s Mormon references are a classic example of how a member of the LDS Church can easily be confused. Nonstop doctrinal contradictions can cause even the most ardent of clear headed thinkers to do a double take. 1831 – One Wife Only “Revelation through Joseph Smith to Sidney […]

Who Ordered Polygamy; God, or Joe Smith?

17 December

They Knew the Prophet, p. 87;“…He said, “When I speak as a man it is Joseph only that speaks. But when the Lord speaks through me, it is no more Joseph Smith who speaks; but it is God, and let all Israel hear.”” – Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus, comps. Jeremiah 14:14; “Then the Lord said […]

Polygamous Families are Forever Plan Rejected by God

27 November

Doctrines of Salvation 2:67; “FAMILY UNIT CONTINUES ONLY IN CELESTIAL KINGDOM…We believe that the family will go on. I get a great deal of comfort out of the thought that if I am faithful and worthy of an exaltation, my father will be my father, and I will be subject to him as his son through […]

Mormonism’s Ugly Underbelly – Fulfilling Smith’s Prophecy by Breeding with Native Americans

03 November

People often ask us at LAM if anyone knew what Smith and his friends were up to in the early days of Mormonism. The answer to that is a resounding, YES! Books and pamphlets were written exposing the Church’s nefarious deeds. Conferences were held, meetings scheduled, and an all out propaganda machine was in full […]

Heber C. Kimball’s False Gods

03 October

H. C. Kimball, Appendix A, Memorandum Book, On the Potter’s Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball; “The Lord told me that Adam was my father and that he was the God and father of all of the inhabitants of this Earth.” – Heber C. Kimball, April 30, 1862, Stanley B. Kimball, editor