LDS Godparents?

[TheLittleLady]

Depending on how many people are allowed per your Bishops directives during the pandemic, they can come and be part of the baptism. Stand right there with parents and godparents, reject Satan along with all of you, be in the photographs, eat the cake, drink the Sangria (oops, nope, they would want juice instead).

 

[dochawk]

Did only the men get shot?

As far as I know, yes.

It was the 19th century. Shooting a woman would surely have been “ungentle.”

At some point in the 1980s, Massachusetts found that it still had an executive order on the books for the able bodied citizenry to shoot Mormons on sight!

within a year or two of that, a southern state noticed still had a law holding a master harmless for the death of a servant during a “lawful beating.”

I knew that JWs are basically modern-day Arians, but I did not know that about Muslims and LDS.

They acknowledge that Jesus was the messiah of the Old Testament, and deny His divinity at birth.

 

[Baho]

That’s not true. A lot of LDS women and children were killed in the places they lived even. Also to touch on an earlier comment, JS was practicing polygamy in secret, with her first bride 14 year old Fanny Alger, way before their persecution.

 

[dochawk]

I don’t doubt that many women and children were killed, but the massive imbalance was real.

And in that period, there would be a significant cultural difference between shooting a man for this and shooting a women or child.

Smith’s assorted “odd” behavior aside, it was the widow crisis that led to the “doctrine”.

 

[Baho]

That’s the Mormon apologist reasoning for it but Smith and his inner circle were marrying other peoples wives even before his “martyrdom”. When people found out that he had begun practicing plural marriage and forced it upon the other ‘apostles’ he burned a printing press. That’s what led to his imprisonment and death, even. Mormonism is, at it’s core, a sex-cult. Even if it has been cleaned up today. I say this as someone who was nearly baptized into the LDS church and spent years obsessed with it. It’s simply not true that polygamy was innocent.

 

[Baho]

Additionally… D&C clearly stating that plural marriage is the divine plan for that particular dispensation for the gospel and also the path to exhaltation kind of destroys the argument that it was done for pragmatic reasons.

 

[dochawk]

The reason it was done, and they way they dress it up, have no inherent connection.

They also don’t state that their real reason for the ban on Freemasonry is the amount of it Smith, err, borrowed.

 

[Baho]

There actually isn’t a ban on being a freemason. Many LDS folks today are openly masons.