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Almost 200 removed from Mormon compound.

Read the news articles here and here and watch an eye-opening video on polygamy here.

Before anyone criticizes these people who practiced this lifestyle of polygamy (especially when the criticism comes from mainstream Mormons) just keep in mind that the blame for this polygamist behavior is not to be laid at the feet of Warren Jeffs, but the blame is none other than the cult’s original founder, Joseph Smith. It was Smith and his insatiable sexual appetite that led him to claim that God gave him the “new and everlasting covenant” of polygamy:

“For behold, I reveal unto you a new and everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory. For all who will have a blessing at my hands shall abide the law which was appointed . . . before the foundation of the world. And as pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant, it was instituted for the fulness [sic] of my glory; and he that receiveth a fulness [sic] thereof must and shall be damned, saith the Lord God.” (Doctrine & Covenants, 132:4-6)

This “new and everlasting covenant” of polygamy was confirmed by Mormonism’s second president/prophet Brigham Young when he said in the Deseret News on November 14, 1855:

“Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned . . .“

Sixth president/prophet of Mormonism Joseph F. Smith said in the Journal of Discourses, Volume 20, page 31:

“I understand the law of celestial marriage to mean that every man in this Church, who has the ability to obey and practice it in righteousness and will not, shall be damned, I say I understand it to mean this and nothing less, and I testify in the name of Jesus that it does mean that.”

Well, last time I checked, an “everlasting covenant” meant exactly that: an everlasting covenant.

Even LDS published Gospel Principles tells us on page 98 (1997 edition):

“The fulness [sic] of the gospel is called the new and everlasting covenant. . . . The Lord calls it ‘everlasting’ because it is ordained by an everlasting God and because the covenant will never be changed.“

So before you mainstream Mormons judge and condemn these FLDS members, remember, they’re not the ones who apostatized.


4 thoughts on “Almost 200 removed from Mormon compound.”

  1. So the fundamentalist Mormons (those who hold fast to the fundamentals of their faith) are being imprisoned and the apostate Mormons are running failed bids for the Presidency.

    Interesting…

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  2. What’s the rallying cry of Mormons on this site? “Judge our church by its fruits” (I won’t even go into making a pun out of that). Well, this is the fruit of the tree Joseph Smith planted and Brigham Young watered. And if it weren’t for the fact that the early Mormons desparately needed Utah to become a state, they never would have stopped their polygamouos practices. This, in fact, was the vision of Joseph Smith.

    Oh, and what’s that they keep talking about, how they have kept their church together all these years, with nary a split or schism?

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