MANIFESTO III
It’s coming and will involve a reversal of homophobia.
** Researchers discovered that the monthly pay made by the US army to those 500 men was collected by Orin Porter Rockwell, an old west gunslinger and body guard to Brigham Young. He was accompanied by John Doyle Lee, a Danite, who was executed by firing squad many years later for his role in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. The money was turned directly over to Young who used it for his own purposes in setting up the kingdom known as Deseret. None of the money was turned over to the numerous wives of the Mormon Battalion.
*** On October 6, 1890 at the semi-annual conference of the church in Salt Lake City, Lorenzo Snow, counselor to Woodruff, referred to the Official Declaration of September 24th of Woodruff’s as the Manifesto in requesting to the members present that it be accepted as binding upon the church. The vote to sustain was unanimous.
**** As an illustration of that belief/hope for reintroduction of polygamy, the author offers the following: In December 1998 while visiting the birthplace museum of church founder Joseph, Jr. in Vermont, he met a Vermont attorney, a member of the church who was on duty that day as a tour guide. He and the writer got into a discussion about polygamy. At That time the issue of same sex marriage was before the Vermont Supreme Court. This attorney made the comment that if the court found same sex marriage to be constitutional ,it would open the door for the church to reinstate polygamy. The Vermont Supreme Court later ruled same sex marriage to be State Constitutional!
What a thought! Perhaps Thomas Monson and his group of twelve ought to consider backing off their position against Gay marriage so that they can use gay marriage as a lever to re-assert their notion of divinely authored polygamous marriage. Certainly same sex marriage does not conform to traditional Anglo American marriage any more than polygamy! After all, what is more important to god; a relatively few same sex married couples that can do no harm or massive compliance with his will of polygamy outlined in the 132nd Section of the D & C? By doing so they can issue Manifesto III.
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