Part 1: Deseret, Proposition-8 and the Christian Right

For those of you who fail to understand that Mormons in general feel great disdain for the United States of America, and the Judeo-Christian principles upon which it was founded, perhaps the following will illustrate the depths to which this is an issue in today’s Mormon culture. The following blog was taken from Latterdaymainstreet.com, and was posted on October 23, 2008 by “Hellmut”. The complete irony of this post is that “Hellmut”, while Mormon, truly represents the spirit of America, and recognizes the hypocrisy of the Mormons being a religious minority that seeks to deny rights to other minorities. And, in the greatest irony of all, it's the greatest country in the world and its Constitution that protects the rights of the Mormons and guarantees them the right to practice their unique brand of religion in America. Read "Hellmut's" "We are a Minority" blog that was originally posted on Latterdaymainstreet.com: 

Hellmut's original blog at Latterdaymainstreet.com

We Are a Minority

If you happen to live outside of Deseret and the colonies, a certain degree of social isolation is unavoidable for Mormons. Our Mormon experience sets us apart from our peers and our families. Mormons all over the world are members of a tiny minority that has to rely on the self-constraint of the majority to practice our religion.

Deseret Mormons do not appreciate that enough. To many of them, the ACLU is an anti-Mormon, liberal, and elitist organization. Federal courts consist of activist judges who are forcing us to treat our Jewish schoolmates and students with respect. To Mormon families in Texas (1), federal courts and the ACLU are the last resort to protect themselves against the religious imposition of the Christian right.

It is unfortunate, that our organization has once more become the driving force behind denying human rights to another vulnerable minority. As a teenager in 1978, I was hoping that those days were over. Today, it turns out that Mormons have raised 77% of the funds in support of Proposition 8 (2), which aims to deny marriage equality to our gay children and neighbors.

Minority Mormons are paying the price for that behavior every day. Taking the rights of others undermines our efforts to defend our own rights. Thanks to our anti-gay agenda, our neighbors will regard us with trepidation and suspicion for decades to come. Thank heavens, there are a few Mormons who are willing to recover our community’s honor by speaking out.

They are the salt of the earth and Mormons everywhere in the world are in their debt.

And, for those of you who think I’m off my rocker, I’d like to thank Hellmut, who’s Mormon, for peeling back the shiny veneer of the duplicitous  Mormon culture and  exposing its dark underbelly for me. Notice Hemutt’s referral to “Deseret”, which is the sovereign Mormon nation that Brigham Young founded in July of 1847. Today, no “mainstream American” seems to know anything about Deseret, yet significant segments of the Mormon culture still pine for the day when the Mormon prophesies of “The Doctrine of the Constitution Hanging by a Thread”, “Daniel’s Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Latter-days”, “The White Horse Prophecy” and “The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares” will finally come true and America will become a “Mormon Kingdom of Zion”. Hellmut even provided a couple of his own interesting tidbits of information to support his contention that the Mormon culture as a whole does not represent or appreciate America. The two key offerings Hellmut presented in his blog above are highlighted below, with links to supporting information:

(1) - Mormon files lawsuit over saying "Christian Prayers" at Texas high school football games

(2)  - Mormons bankroll 77% of anti-gay marriage propositions in Arizona and California


Part 2: Nauvoo and "The Extermination Order"

The video below highlights the dark side of Mormonism that Hellmut was referring to. The individual in the video is an “FLDS Mormon” with ties to the polygamous community of Colorado City in Arizona and the YFZ ranch in Texas. And, while “mainstream Mormons” in Utah adamantly deny any connection to the “FLDS Mormons” whatsoever, everyone in America knows that polygamy wouldn't even exist in America today if it weren’t for Joseph Smith and his Mormon religion. Further, what 99% of Americans don't know is that prior to issuance of the “1890 Manifesto”, wherein the Mormon religion finally officially banned polygamy in America, Mormon President John Taylor received a prophecy from God in 1884 wherein God told him polygamy would be “kept alive in places that were hidden and protected by God”. So, all of the polygamous communities that exist across the western United States, including Colorado City and Yearn for Zion in Texas, and all of the other polygamous Mormon communities in Canada and Mexico, are all a direct result of Mormon polygamists that Mormon President John Taylor (member of Smith’s “Council of Fifty”, which ratified Smith’s plan to overthrow the Government of the United States in Nauvoo in 1844) "sent out" in 1844 specifically to keep polygamy alive after. And, it should come as no surprise that the Mormon religion, the State of Utah and the FLDS all share the same Salt Lake City law firm of Snow, Christensen & Martineau.

Notice in the video below, which takes place in a Salt Lake City Mormon church, that the poor man vehemently decrying the America persecution of Mormon polygamists is knowingly breaking the Federal Polygamy Laws of the United States at the same time he's claiming religious persecution. And, during his emotionally stirring monologue, he even makes vague references to something called “Nauvoo” and “The extermination Order”, as if Federal law is irrelevent. But, what is “Nauvoo” and “The extermination Order”? Like the 99% of all other Americans today, the anonymous man in the video doesn’t know anything at all about the REAL history of the Mormon religion, much less the REAL history behind "Nauvoo" or "The Extermination Order". But, The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner (Chicago: Moody Press, 1981) begins to reveal the incredible TRUTH about the Mormon Wars in Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois, as documented in these revealing passages below:

Excerpts from The Changing World of Mormonism

"....The fact that Joseph Smith would allow himself to be crowned king shows that he was driven by the idea of gaining power. It is very possible that Smith seriously believed that he would become president and that he would rule as king over the people of the United States. The attempt by Joseph Smith to become president seems to have been a treasonous plot to bring the United States Government under the rule of the priesthood. Klaus J. Hansen observed: "But what if, through a bold stroke, he could capture the United States for the Kingdom? The Council of Fifty thought there might be a chance and nominated the Mormon prophet for the Presidency of the United States." (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Autumn 1966, p.67)

"…Davidson states that Joseph Smith had himself anointed King and Priest ... in a revelation dated 1886 given to President John Taylor, mention is made of Joseph Smith being crowned a king in Nauvoo. Not only was he ordained a king, but the leading members of the Church were assigned governmental responsibilities. Brigham Young was to be president, John Taylor vice president, members of the Church were assigned to represent different states in the house and senate of the United States, and a full cabinet was appointed." ("Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846," Ph.D. dissertation, BYU, 1967, pp.63-65)

"…Joseph Smith's military plans and maneuvers were very disturbing to the non-Mormons who lived around Nauvoo. On July 21, 1841, the anti-Mormon paper, Warsaw Signal reported: "How military these people are becoming! Everything they say or do seems to breathe the spirit of military tactics. Their prophet appears, on all occasions, in his sp[l]endid regimental dress signs his name Lieut. General, and more titles are to be found in the Nauvoo Legion, than any one book on military tactics can produce; ... Truly fighting must, be a part of the creed of these Saints!"…"

"…One of the most important factors leading to Joseph Smith's death was his interference in politics. On July 15, 1842, this statement appeared in the Sangamo Journal, published at Springfield, Illinois: "We received the Mormons into this state as we did every other sect. Disclosures have shown that the head of that church acts not under the influence of that pure religion which Jesus Christ established upon the earth; and that his vaulting ambition would secure to himself the control of our State elections" (Sangamo Journal, July 15, 1842)

 …Mormon writer Kenneth W. Godfrey in discussing factors that stirred the conflict in Illinois wrote:

“…Antagonism toward the Mormon Prophet was further incited when it was correctly rumored, that he had been ordained 'King over the Immediate House of Israel' by the Council of Fifty... newspapers and tracts repeatedly charged that the Prophet conducted himself like a dictator and that his actions were not only treasonable but a violation of the constitutional principle that church and state should be disassociated. Thus, his kingly ordination only incensed the populace, and his untimely death became even more inevitable…”

George Miller, who had been a member of the Council of Fifty, recorded in a letter dated June 28, 1855:

“…It was further determined in Council that all the elders should set out on missions to all the States to get up an electorial [sic] ticket, and do everything in our power to have Joseph elected president. If we succeeded in making a majority of the voters converts to our faith, and elected Joseph president, in such an event the dominion of the Kingdom would be forever established in the United States; and if not successful, we could fall back on Texas, and be a kingdom notwithstanding.” (Letter by George Miller, as quoted in Joseph Smith and World Government, by Hyrum Andrus, 1963, p.54)

The anonymous man in the video doesn’t know anything about the REAL history of the Mormon religion in Missouri either. For those of you not familiar with the alleged "Extermination Order", in 1838 Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs was forced to issue an executive order for all Mormons to leave the State of Missouri as a result of the “Missouri War” (1832 to 1838). After Joseph Smith arrived in Missouri from Kirtland, Ohio in 1838 (after absconding with the remaining funds of the Kirtland Safety Society Bank and escaping from Kirtland in the dead of night), he declared to his newly unified Mormons, “…this is the land of your inheritance, which is now the land of your enemies", and, “I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was “the Koran or the Sword”, so shall it eventually be with us, “the church or the sword”. On October 14, 1838, Joseph Smith also proclaimed he was a “second Muhammad” and made the following statement:

“…We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood…from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a 2^nd Muhammad, whose motto in treating for peace was “the Al-Qur’an or the sword”. So shall it be with us — “Joseph Smith or the sword”  (History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167).”

And, If that wasn’t enough, during the Mormon’s 1838 4^th of July celebration, Sidney Rigdon who was Smith’s second-in-command at the time further incited, “…it shall be between us and them a war of extermination; for we will follow them until the last drop of their blood is spilled, or else they will have to exterminate us.” Then, on October 24^th, 1838, in order to fulfill his own prophetic vision of America becoming his “Mormon Kingdom of Zion”, Smith ordered his Mormon militia (under the leadership of his military commander Lyman Wight) to attack the Missouri Militia at Crooked River on October 24^th, 1838. And, in retaliation for the Mormon attack at Crooked River, the Missouri Militia attacked the Mormon Haun’s Mill settlement 6-day later on October 30^th, 1838.

Because of the escalating violence, and the continued lawlessness of the Mormons in Missouri, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs was forced to issue his executive order wherein he demanded for Mormons to leave the State of Missouri altogether, or be killed. Mormons today officially refer to the Missouri Militia’s attack at Haun’s Mill as “The Haun’s Mill Massacre”, and Governor Boggs’ executive order for the Mormons to leave Missouri as, “The Extermination Order”.  However, the REAL history of the Mormons in Missouri (which the Mormon religion has covered-up) documents a purposeful Mormon insurrection against the United States Government and its Judeo-Christian laws that can be specifically traced back to the religious teachings of Joseph Smith and the theology of the Mormon religion. Further, it was actually the Mormon Sidney Rigdon who first referred to the Mormon's “war of extermination” against the gentiles in his 1838, 4^th of July speech prior to Bogg's so-called "Extermination Order"; Boggs was simply referencing Rigdon's own words. And, not only was Joseph Smith arrested for Treason against the United States in Missouri (Liberty Jail) in 1838 for causing this Mormon insurrection, he was also arrested for Treason again in 1844. Only, the second time, he was arrested in Nauvoo, Illinois and placed in jail at Carthage, Illinois where he was utlimately killed trying to escape after guns had been smuggled into he and his brother in jail.

Amazing video of Mormon polygamist in 2008 comparing their YFZ fiasco to "Nauvoo" and "The Extermination Order"