Category: Censorship and Suppression
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Mormon Inquisition? LDS Leaders Move to Repress Rebellion
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner While the Mormon Church continues to grow at a rapid rate (it now has close to 9,000,000 members [1993]), it is obvious that internal problems are also beginning to mount. Consequently, church leaders have decided to take an uncompromising stand against Mormon historians who wish to tell the unvarnished truth…
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Satanic Verses and Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Joseph Smith was certainly not the first to claim revelations or to bring forth a new book purporting to be scripture. For instance, the story of the coming forth of the Koran, the sacred scripture of Islam, bears some interesting parallels to Joseph Smith’s account of the origin of the…
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Lectures on Faith
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner [The following is an excerpt from Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?, pp. 166-167.] In 1835 the “Lectures on Faith,” which were originally delivered before a class of the Elders, in Kirtland, Ohio, were printed in the Doctrine and Covenants. In these lectures it was definitely stated that God the Father was a…
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Crisis in LDS History
Mormon Scholars Question Book of Mormon By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Writing in the Salt Lake Tribune, September 28, 1985, Dawn Tracy claimed that “Tumultuous times may be ahead as Mormons wrestle with scholarly works challenging traditional stories about the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” James L. Clayton, a Mormon…
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More Discoveries!
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In his book, Nightfall At Nauvoo, the Mormon writer Samuel W. Taylor commented that “the Salt Lake City Messenger, contains some of the liveliest reading ever to emerge from the city of the Saints.” In the Messenger we have tried very hard to provide information that is both accurate and…
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Tanners Found Guilty! (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
Judge Threatens Damages “Many Times” $16,000 By Jerald and Sandra Tanner “The atmosphere in the courtroom was electric,” wrote Christine Rigby. “Many of the big guns in Mormon history were there. They would finally be testifying in a case against Jerald and Sandra Tanner, the notorious anti-Mormon publishers. . . . For years the Mormon historical establishment…
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Cover-Up on Lawsuit (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner As we have indicated in previous issues of the Messenger, on April 28, 1983, the Mormon scholar Andrew Ehat filed a lawsuit against us (Jerald and Sandra Tanner) in an attempt to stop publication of some extracts from the diaries of Joseph Smith’s private secretary, William Clayton. Because these diaries…
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Suing the Tanners (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
On May 7, 1983, we were served with a summons to appear in court, claiming that we were being sued for reproducing extracts from William Clayton’s diaries.
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The Mormon “Inquisition” Begins
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner For a number of years we have been predicting that Mormon scholars are in for some very rough times. For instance, in the January 1979 issue of the Messenger, we wrote that, “There is reason to believe that Benson [Ezra Taft Benson, the man who will become the next president…
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Jack Anderson to Expose Critics
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The Latter Day Sentinel for May 6, 1983, reported the following: The country’s most famous investigative reporter, Jack Anderson, has a new target: Anti-Mormon groups. The well-known newspaper and TV personality has announced he plans to a [sic] publish a magazine later this year titled For Mormons Only which will…