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"1. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
"2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. ...
"7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
"8. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
"9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn."
1 Corinthians 7:1-2, 7-9
Press Release: Jan. 12,
2007
By Mary Migliore
As
Mitt Romney announces his candidacy for the U.S. presidency, Mormons are in
overdrive at this opportunity to present their religion in a positive light and
avoid any campaign issue on the subject of his faith.
Time Magazine quoted church spokesman Michael Otterson last month as saying,
"The message in a nutshell is, The church is about preaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Anything else is a distraction."
With the 150th anniversary looming this year for the nation's first 9-11---- the
Mountain Meadows Massacre on Sept. 11, 1857 --- it would presumably be a
distraction now to expose the involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints in the mass murder of 120 unarmed Arkansas residents on a
wagon train in Utah, along with the continuation of the current leadership's
cover-up, conspiracy, the stonewalling and Romney's ancestral connection to the
atrocity.
An overview of the LDS church's attempts to avoid responsibility, restitution
and remorse is presented in an academic paper that I wrote for a November
conference on Christianity, Culture and Diversity in America (see enclosed).
It was Mormon militiamen in southwest Utah under the control of the church who
tricked Arkansas pioneers into putting down their weapons under a white flag of
truce, and followed that up with the wholesale slaughter of every person over
the age of 6. The mass murder and subsequent LDS cover-up and conspiracy, have
no grounding in the Christian faith. There is nothing in the Sermon on the Mount
that says thou shall avoid taking responsibility forever and ever to avoid
tarnishing the reputation of a prophet who admitted, at the very least, to being
an "accessory after the fact" of the worst civilian atrocity in Frontier
America.
The buck stopped in 1857 with Brigham Young, and it stops today with leaders of
the LDS Church.
Meanwhile, the church is trying to muzzle critics in the Mountain Meadows
Monument Foundation who seek federal stewardship for the site and want to pay
proper tribute to their ancestors left robbed, naked and unburied by their
Mormon killers in the bleak southern Utah meadows in 1857. LDS officials have
anointed a member of the Neville Chamberlain appeasement branch of descendants
as the sole spokesperson for MMM families at 9-11 ceremonies in 2007 at Mountain
Meadows, provided that person follows the dictates of the church officials
who'll control every word said at the ceremonies.
"The mass murder of over 120 decent and hard-working people has been subjected
to the largest and longest continuation of orchestrated cover-up in the history
of this country," says Ron Wright, a West Coast aircraft manufacturing executive
and relative of Mountain Meadows murder victims.
As the political face of a church that wants to show Mormons are ready for the
White House, Romney needs to support federal stewardship for Mountain Meadows
and the drive to remove control of Mountain Meadows from the descendants of the
killers on the 150th anniversary of the crime.
Romney's leadership will be needed because the LDS Church still doesn't get it,
nor does prominent church historian and BYU professor Louis Midgley. As Mormons
seek to promote the illusion of healing at Mountain Meadows with a transparent
PR ceremony on 9-11, the real LDS view of an inconvenient truth about a mass
murder is revealed in the enclosed e-mail from Midgley.
Under the subject line -- Get a life -- Midgley attaches what he calls a
"thoughtful response" to my "dreadful diatribe" and tells his correspondent: "I
trust you will see how Latter-Day Saints see her nonsense." Someone called
"Mike, the insensitive one" (one of Midgley's colleagues in the inner circle of
Mormon intellectuals) writes, in part:
"It's my fault for not understanding in the slightest why certain people allow
the tragic deaths of some of their ancestors 150 years ago people whom they've
never met -- to define so much of their lives and control their emotional state.
To be angry and bitter about Mormons killing your wife -- that I can grasp. But
to be angry and bitter about Mormons killing your great-great-great grandfather
a century and a half ago? Open sore? Get some therapy and move on, people."
As a relative of Mountain Meadows victims, I don't need therapy, but full
disclosure, admission of the church's responsibility and remorse might help from
a religious institution that is supposed to be an inspiration to the world in
spiritual guidance, not stonewalling. The church can start making amends by
turning their Utah killing field over to federal stewardship, so the story is
removed from the control of parties with a massive conflict of interest.
But where to start to explain to Professor Midgley, Insensitive Mike,
Insensitive Temple Square and Latter-day Saints that there is no moral statute
of limitations for a mass murder committed under the auspices of a religion
that's one of the fastest growing in the United States.
For some perspective, "Mike" can't understand all the fuss over dead ancestors
(not even one's wife), so he needs to contact LDS officials and tell them to
stop spending millions of dollars to honor British Mormons (people whom they've
never met) who were killed in a snowstorm in Martin's Cove, Wyoming, in 1856.
It's not like it was your "wife," so why remember dead British Mormons with
100,000 visitors a year, a museum, campgrounds and years of legislative battles
to try to take control of the site?
Perhaps "Mike" should ask LDS officials why they lobbied and persuaded the
United States Congress -- led by such eminent people as Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch,
who happens to be a Mormon descendant of one of the 1857 killers at Mountain
Meadows, (but that was a long time ago and so it shouldn't count, it's not like
it was a blizzard), to have the taxpayers of the United States set aside
hundreds of acres so the entire United States can honor those Mormon settlers in
the area.
Meanwhile, 120 Arkansas residents brutally murdered by Mormons in 1857 get a
handful of visitors and the vicious crime is lost in the backwaters of American
history --- with iron LDS control over the site to keep it that way.
And with the remains of only 34 Mountain Meadows victims entombed in a rock
cairn on a 2.5-acre site owned by the church, that means the bones of 85 or so
are still out there in the bleak, five-mile valley, unburied and unidentified,
including my great-great uncles John and William Prewit.
Since "Mike" fails to see cause for outrage over butchered Arkansas families
left unburied for 150 years, he probably also doesn't believe it's worth
spending millions of dollars to remember them, let alone be bitter about their
murders (it's not like it's somebody's wife, or a dead British Mormon.)
Gospel of Jesus Christ from LDS leaders and historians? Not even close.
Today, there's a lot of attention in the national news about 9-11 families in
New York seeking the remains of their loved ones after five years. American
citizens murdered by religious zealots in the first 9-11 in 1857 are just as
deserving of the nation's attention and proper stewardship by the federal
government, DNA identification and burial.
You don't see the bones of General Custer and his men left unburied for the ages
because some private landowners in Montana didn't "feel" like assigning the
property to the federal government.
Attention members of the U.S. Congress and the national media: How does one pull
off that trick for 150 years in southwest Utah? Why would a state autocracy, a
powerful church and local landowners with a monumental conflict of interest get
to decide what major events in U.S. history remain buried in U.S. history?
Dr. Dean Helland, an Oral Roberts University professor and former Book of Mormon
believer, says he is reminded of the words of the Mormon founder Joseph Smith,
who said: "The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us
is to seek after our dead."
Oh really. Since the LDS Church has utterly failed in that regard for the first
9-11 victims, it is time for them to turn the Mountain Meadows site over to the
feds and get out of the Keeper the Flame business for people murdered by
Mormons.
But back to Mitt Romney's promised independence from his church: Pastor Reza
Safa, founder of the Harvesters World Outreach and a former Shiite Muslim whose
advice to the U.S. government to stay out of Iraq in 2003, was ignored, says "It
is apparent that there are many similarities between the Islamic faith and the
Mormon religion."
Dr. Helland notes that "all Temple Mormons are sworn to use all their talents
and resources and gifts to promote the Mormon Church." It's not optional.
Meanwhile, in a cover story in The New Republic, author Damon Linker addresses
separation of church and state issues amid Romney's candidacy. The LDS Church
regards the prophet as "the mouthpiece of God on Earth" (in the words of Mormon
theologian Bruce McConkie) --- whose statements override both scripture and
tradition, Linker writes.
He says that while a visiting professor in the political science department at
BYU in the late 1990s, he asked what students would do "if the prophet in Salt
Lake City commanded them to commit murder in the name of the faith, much as the
God of the Old Testament supposedly instructed the ancient Israelites to wipe
out the Canaanites? More than one pious young Mormon invariably responded by
declaring that he would execute the prophet's commands, no matter what."
While Linker writes Americans need not fear a covert genocidal LDS plot,
"Mormonism opens the door to prophetically inspired acts and innovations, the
content of which cannot be predetermined in any way."
Today, relatives of murder victims in Utah are still dealing with the fallout of
"prophetically inspired acts" by Mormons and they continue to demand that the
$25 billion church step up and take responsibility for the Mountain Meadows
Massacre, as Mormons labor to whitewash 9-11ceremonies in Utah this fall and
Mitt Romney seeks to assure the nation he is an independent member of a benign
and loving faith.
To demonstrate his independence from his church, Romney can use his campaign
platform for the presidency to demand justice for all Americans, not just
remembrance for British Mormons killed by snow in 1856, but for Arkansans killed
by Mormons in 1857 in Utah and left unburied for 150 years under the control of
the descendants of the killers.
Even if "Insensitive Mike" and the Brethren still don't get it.
Prayer of Salvation:
Lord Jesus, I thank you for your Holy Word, the Bible, which reveals the plan of salvation which is so simple. I repent for thinking that a church could save me when you only ask me to come to you in simple faith. Lord, I have heard your knock at the door of my heart. I open that door and ask you to come in. I believe that you lived a sinless life, took my sins upon you when you died on the cross, and are now at the right hand of the Father, praying for me.
I renounce Mormonism and everything associated it. I ask for release from all the spirits of deception I have allowed in my life by doubting your holy Word and following the teachings of men. Cleanse me with your shed blood. I believe. I receive you now as my Lord and Savior. I will seek out a church which teaches the Bible as the guide for my life. I will be re-baptized as a testimony of my new-found faith. I give you my life. Do with me what you will. I promise never leave you, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, Jesus! Amen!
If you prayed this prayer sincerely, please contact Dr. Dean at the email address below and let him know about it. He will see that you receive the guidance necessary to keep you in the ways of the Lord. Of course, your name and email address will be kept confidential.
NOTE: All other correspondence with Dr. Dean or with Mary Migliore is made with the understanding that it may be used in part or in whole on this website or elsewhere.
Dr. Helland's Articles in English
- My Visit With Two Mormon Missionaries
- Islam, Mormonism and Freemasonry (See its Power Point presentation)
- My Personal Testimony
- When a Mormon Meets Jesus (See its Power Point Presentation)
- What Every Christian Should Know about Mormonism
- Book of Mormon Problems
Other items of interest
- Photos of Dean Helland's recent visit to Arkansas Descendants' Conference SLIDE SHOW
- Free on-line 11- minute Video of "Momma, The Book of Mormon and Me"
Guest Articles
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