Cheseander

4 Nov 1856

At meeting with stake presidencies, ward bishoprics, and local quorum presidents, Brigham Young presents catechism for every Mormon to answer. Among questions:

* Have you ever committed murder, shed innocent blood, or given your consent thereto?

* Have you ever committed adultery?

* Have you ever spoken evil of the church authorities or anointed of the Lord?

* Have you ever betrayed your brethren?

* Have you ever stolen or taken anything that was not your own?

* Have you ever taken the name of God in vain?

* Have you ever been drunk?

* Do you pay all your tithing?

* Do you teach your children the gospel?

* Do you pray in your family night and morning?

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TLDR; About two weeks a brother of a Mormon Bishop in Mississippi posted a short video about his brother's resignation speech. Rebecca and Brandon from the Mormon,ish youtube channel discuss the challenges a Mormon bishop faces, with therapist Natasha Helfer and former bishop Joel Huntington,

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eptPR4xtZgA

Episode 115, Jan 10, 2024: The Ethical and Moral Dilemma of the Bishop's Mantle

Premiered Jan 10, 2024

On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Landon and Rebecca are joined by AASECT Certified Sex Therapist/Supervisor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Natasha Helfer and former LDS bishop, *

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYIQa9N66q0

Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1899379/14243137-panelists-discuss-d-michael-quinn-s-new-memoir-chosen-path

.. D. Michael Quinn’s son, Moshe; Equality Utah executive director Troy Williams; and historian Sara M. Patterson join Signature Books director Barbara Jones Brown for a compelling conversation on Mike Quinn’s remarkable new memoir, Chosen Path, newly published by Signature Books.

D. Michael Quinn will long be remembered as one of the most prominent historians of Mormo

Another proof of horses not being present in BOM times

From https://phys.org/news/2023-03-horses-american-west-early-1600s.html :

• horse bones from museums in Great Plains and northern Rockies were investigated
• date of early 1600's is earlier than reported in written sources
• findings match oral histories of having horses of Spanish blood before invasion of Western Europeans
• co-authored by historians and scientists from Lakota, Comanche and Pawnee nations
• previously the introduction date was thought to be the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, when the retreating Spanish armies left thousands of horses behind in New Mexico

In 1857 an Utah Mormon couple wants children. They cannot have them because of a physical sexual defect of the husband. Brigham Young, however devises a Church sanctioned, solution.

From D. Michael Quinn "Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power", Appendix 5. Selected Chronology ... 1848-1996

5 Mar 1857: Brigham Young permits woman to select faithful elder to act as "proxy" to father children for her sexually impotent husband.

Young performs polyandrous ceremony "for time", and the relationship lasts several years producing two sons (1858,1861). Mother's legal husband raises the boys with her, and later tells them, he loves them as much as if they were his natural sons.

Both

From D. Michael Quinn "Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power", Appendix 5. Selected Chronology ... 1848-1996 :

1848 11 Mar. Benjamin Covey is excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who are his foster daughters. He is rebaptized and serves as bishop of Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward from 22 February 1849 until 1856.

Less than a year after excommunication he became bishop. A rather short probation

Background: Federal government officials stationed in Utah trying to end polygamy.

Source: "The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power" by D. Micheal Quinn, Appendix 5. Selected Chronology 1885

21 Nov., deputy U.S. marshal is first anti-Mormon to be arrested for complaint of "lewd and lascivious conduct" signed by Brigham Y. Hampton, Salt Lake City policeman.

Hampton pays professional madam to operate brothel so that Mormon policemen can obtain evidence against those prominent in anti-polygamy crusade. Hampton conducts this brothel espionage with knowledge of Salt Lake Stake presidency and (he believes) by authority of First Presidency.

Deseret News editorial of 14 Dec 1885

From https://www.dialoguejournal.com/diablogue/author/walter-e-a-van-beek/

"Walter E. A. Van Beek - Professor of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University - Netherlands

The Temple and the Sacred: Dutch Temple Experiences

Articles/Essays Volume 45, No. 4

Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2012): 104-123

First, the history of the temple project will be shown from the Dutch perspective, with a discussion of some of the observable effects on the Dutch saints, one of them being a large drop in temple attendance."

URL of the article: [https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-temple-and-the-sacred-dutch-temple-experiences/#p