Category: Censorship and Suppression
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Last Salt Lake City Messenger
A farewell message as the Utah Lighthouse Ministry closes its doors, and an excerpt from the biography about the Tanners: Lighthouse.
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Saintly Scissors
The Cutting Away of Unwanted Revelation By Sandra Tanner Just as God spoke to Moses on the mountain, the LDS Church claims that God personally appeared to Joseph Smith and directed him to establish “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” (Doctrine and Covenants 1:30). LDS revelations are usually…
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Jerald Tanner’s Quest for Truth – Part 2
By Ronald V. Huggins Jerald TannerJune 1959 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight…
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Jerald Tanner’s Quest for Truth — Part 1
By Ronald V. Huggins Jerald TannerJune 1, 1938 — October 1, 2006 For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesus, be for ever blest. Alleluia. Alleluia. From now on whenever Christians throughout the world sing this triumphant hymn it will be celebrating,…
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1869 Murder in a Mormon Ward House?
By Sandra Tanner In 1869 three non-Mormons, part of the John Wesley Powell expedition of the Colorado River, were murdered in southern Utah. Were they killed by Indians or by Mormons? Was it due to indiscretions with an Indian woman or to mistaken identity? The Salt Lake Tribune, in 1993, printed a story entitled “Did…
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LDS Church Suppresses Documents
A report of how the LDS church tried to obtain research and historical documents of the late Dr. Leonard Arrington, which had been deeded to the Utah State University.
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Indian Polygamy Revelation
A look at Joseph Smith’s 1831 revelation commanding intermarriage between Latter-day Saints and American Indians in fulfillment of Book of Mormon prophecy.
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The Mormon Church Attempts to Conceal Temple Records for Adolf Hitler
By Helen Radkey On August 30, 1998, Don McAreavy, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, wrote to the LDS Family History Library asking if LDS proxy temple work had been performed for Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. McAreavy specifically wanted to know if temple ordinances had been performed for Hitler and Braun on September 28, 1993, in…
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LDS Church Should Set Members Free
Concerning LDS members’ access to information on church membership policies. This opinion piece is related to our larger article:Copyright Lawsuit — LDS Church v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry It originally appeared in the University of Utah’s student newspaper, The Daily Utah Chronicle, October 21, 1999, and is used here by permission. OPINION: LDS Church Should Set…
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Mormon Purge Continues
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Since we published the last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger, the Mormon Church has continued to excommunicate those who publicly express dissenting opinions. For example, on April 9, 1994, the Salt Lake Tribune reported: “David P. Wright, a professor of Biblical Studies and Hebrew at Brandeis University who…