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A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: Richard Abanes

Claims made in "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise"

Page Claim Response Author's sources

313

“The [John D.] Miles case showed U.S. authorities that prosecuting polygamy would be virtually impossible given Mormon leadership’s willingness to lie under oath.
  • Supreme Court Case Miles v. the United States

313, 585n8

George Q. Cannon’s election as territorial delegate to Congress prompted a “flood of petitions from across the nation demanding his removal and action by Congress to stamp out, once and for all, the practice of polygamy.” (quote is from the source)
  • Bigler, 316

313, 585n10

  • George Q. Cannon said “I have taken plural wives, who now live with me, and have so lived with me for a number of years and borne me children…as a teacher of my religion in Utah territory, I have defended said tenent of said church as being in my belief a revelation of God.”
  • The author says “Such admissions, rather than coming from any sincere desire on Cannon’s part to be forthright, likely resulted from the excessive publicity engendered by the controversy. Back in 1873 he had retained his representative seat in Congress by boldly lying to the House Committee on Elections” by saying that he was not cohabitating with any wives.
  • House Misc. Doc. 49 (43-1), 1873, Serial 1617, 5.

315, 585n12

“[R]ather than obey the laws of the land as commanded in Doctrine and Covenants 58:21, the church’s First Presidency released an “epistle,” promising: “They who fight against Zion shall be destroyed; and the pit which has ben digged shall be filled by those who digged it.”
  • First Presidency (John Taylor, George Q. Cannon, and Joseph F. Smith). Quoted in James R. Clark, Messages of the First Presidency, 5 volumes, cited in Samuel W. Taylor, Rocky Mountain Empire, 13.

315

“[D]ozens of Mormon leaders were in hiding throughout Utah, Europe, Canada and Mexico….Polygamy was just as illegal in these other locales, but authorities there were less likely to interfere with the settlements.”
  • No source provided

316, 585n15

John Taylor received a revelation on September 27, 1886 that promised that “polygamy would never be abandoned.”
  • Fred C. Collier, Unpublished Revelations, vol. 1, 145-146, 180-183.

317, 586n20

Wilford Woodruff received a revelation that indicated that polygamy was “absolutely essential to godhood” and that anyone who hindered Mormons from practicing it would be damned.
  • Wilford Woodruff, in Scott G. Kenney, ed., Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 1833-1898, under January 26, 1880, vol. 7, pages 546, 615-617, 621.

317, 587n25

Brigham said that “[t]he only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy…”
  • Brigham Young, [ Journal of Discourses 11:269].

319, n35-36

Joseph Smith said that “most of the Saints then living [1835] would see Jesus’ return by 1890/91.
  • History of the Church, vol. 2, 182.
  • History of the Church, vol. 5, 324, 336.

320, 588n40

Wilford Woodruff demolished the Church’s Endowment House in response to agreement with the U.S. to “cease practicing plural marriage.”
  • Samuel Taylor, 19.

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