Day: June 10, 2009

Mormon Fundamentalists from the Lists of the LDS Posthumously Baptized

Helen Radkey

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The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is an index of posthumous ordinances compiled by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The IGI can currently be found online at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp.

All who pretend or assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness.
  — Bruce R. McConkie – Mormon Doctrine, Second Edition

…Rulon [Allred] said, “We are not able to get into [their] temples, brothers and sisters, because they have us locked out. We’re not welcome in their [LDS] churches; we’re a bunch of scalawags because we believe in the fullness of the gospel…”
  — Ben Bradlee, Jr. & Dale Van Atta — Prophet of Blood: The Untold Story of Ervil LeBaron and the Lambs of God

A sample list of (20) names of Mormon fundamentalists from the IGI:

(IGI Baptisms) Individual wives listed
Rulon Clark Allred (1906-1977) 5 4
John Yeates (Yates) Barlow (1874-1949) 4 4
Joseph Leslie Broadbent (1891-1935 2 3
Rulon Timpson Jeffs (1909-2002) 1 1
Joseph Smith Jessop (1869-1953) 5 2
Joseph Lyman Jessop (1892-1963) 3 3
Leroy Sunderland Johnson (1888-1986) 2 1
Charles William Kingston (1884-1975) 3 1
Alma Dayer LeBaron (1886-1951) 2 3
Benjamin Teasdale LeBaron (1913-1978) 2 0
Ross Wesley LeBaron (1914-1996) 1 0
Joel Franklin LeBaron (1923-1972) 2 0
Ervil Morrell (Morel) LeBaron (1925-1981) 2 1
Verlan McDonald LeBaron (1930-1981) 3 1
Joseph White Musser (1872-1954) 5 3
Gerald Wilbur Peterson, Sr. (1917-1981) 1 0
John Wickersham Woolley (1831-1928) 9 4
Lorin Calvin Woolley (1856-1934) 9 1
Charles Frederick Zitting (1894-1954) 3 5

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Trump Sends Letter to Homophobic Beauty Queen: You’re Fired

Jon Ponder

After milking every ounce of publicity out of the hoopla around not firing Miss California, Carrie Prejean, last month for lying about having posed for nude photos, making bigoted remarks and consorting with the National Organization for Marriage, an anti-gay hate group, Donald Trump reversed himself and terminated Prejean today.

“To me she was the sweetest thing. Everyone else — she treated like shit,” Trump said.

Being a jerk is not necessarily a firing offense, even for beauty queens. Technically, Prejean was terminated for breach of contract:

“The Miss California USA Organization, in conjunction with the Miss Universe Organization and with the blessing of its owner, Mr. Donald J. Trump, announced today the termination of Carrie Prejean as Miss California USA 2009, citing continued breach of contract issues,” the Miss California Organization said in a statement to Access Hollywood.

The group kicked the controversial beauty queen from her post due to “contract violations including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization,” the pageant’s Executive Director, Keith Lewis, said in a statement…

“[It] has become abundantly clear that Carrie is unwilling to fulfill her obligations under our contract and work together,” Lewis’ statement continued.

And the always classy Mr. Trump, who is famous for hosting a contest in which he fires someone every week, terminated Prejean the old fashioned way — in a letter. Stay classy, Don.

Before she received the letter, however, Prejean learned she’d been fired during a phone call with entertainment reporter Billy Bush:

“We’ve just found out from Keith Lewis, your executive director there, that it’s official, they have put out a statement and you have been fired,” Bush said.

“Well, that’s the first that I know about that, Billy,” Prejean said.

“Really?” he continued.

“Yeah. I was just talking to my lawyer and I just got a phone call from you and I’ve gotten some text messages saying ‘Hey, is this really true?’ and I said, ‘True about what?’ and they said, ‘That you’ve been fired.’ And I started to laugh because everyone’s been cooperating and everyone’s been getting along so well,” she said. “This is the first that I’ve heard of it. This is funny to me. I have no idea what’s going on.”

Indeed.

The Mormon Church & Polygamy: A Double Standard?

Helen Radkey

A Temple System Out of Control Or Unofficial Thumbs Up for Polygamy?

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicates any church member who practices polygamy. The Church has publicly disowned Mormon fundamentalists, representing the sects of Mormonism which embrace early Mormon teachings that made polygamy a central part of the Mormon faith — the ongoing legacy of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism.

While the LDS Church says it does not sanction polygamy, behind closed temple doors, and in Mormon databases, many excommunicated Mormon fundamentalists (and their plural wives) have been reclaimed through posthumous rituals for the dead — and, in numerous cases, posthumously reinstated through “resurrected” original LDS ordinances, including baptisms.

Reinventing its polygamous history, the LDS Church is ushering deceased excommunicated Mormon fundamentalists — such as Rulon Clark Allred; Rulon Timpson Jeffs; and members of the LeBaron clan, including notorious killer, Ervil Morell LeBaron — back into the LDS fold.

The LDS temple system is systematically validating the plural marriages of many deceased Mormon fundamentalists who, when they were alive, were excommunicated from the LDS Church because of polygamy. Some of these polygamists have been posthumously sealed in LDS temples to plural wives they married — after the LDS Church officially suspended polygamy.

Why does the LDS Church condemn the practice of polygamy — including the polygamy of Mormon fundamentalists — as the LDS temple system consistently validates deceased Mormon fundamentalists and many of their plural marriages?

Pensito Review contributor Helen Radkey is a Salt Lake City-based researcher into the practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose groundbreaking research showing that the church was continuing to posthumously baptize victims of the Holocaust sparked outrage in recent years.

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