Category: Opposition to the Tanners
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Trojan Horses in Mormon Land
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner A great deal has happened since we began working on the last issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger. For example, on April 23, 1991, we were informed that Darrick Evenson, a Mormon writer who has worked very hard in an attempt to discredit our work, had been unmasked as…
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The Tanners: Demonized Agents of the Mormon Church?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner When the Apostle Paul wrote to the churches of Galatia, he asked this question: “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” (Galatians 4:16) Paul was painfully aware of the fact that his stand for true Christianity was costing him a great deal. Many of those…
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If He Were Satan
Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the Spring 1989 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought an unusual article by Samuel W. Taylor appears under the title, “If I Were Satan.” On page 116, the following is found: As Satan, I would also encourage Church officials to ignore all attacks on the Church, such as the dedicated…
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Our Ancestry Questioned
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner Beginning in 1980, Robert and Rosemary Brown, a Mormon couple who live in Arizona, began questioning the claims of Mormon critics concerning their credentials and ancestry. They started out by showing that D. J. Nelson had a phony Doctor’s degree. They then attacked Walter Martin and Wayne Cowdery. They alleged…
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Nightmare Ends at the Supreme Court (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In the April 1986 issue of the Salt Lake City Messenger we printed an article entitled, “LAW SUIT OVER—UNFAIR VERDICT IS OVERTURNED.” In this article we told how a man by the name of Andrew Ehat, with the help of a lawyer who represents Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center,…
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Lawsuit Over: Unfair Verdict Is Overturned (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner 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 contain embarrassing material on the origin of polygamy and other…
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Update on Appeal (Clayton Diaries copyright suit)
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner On May 15, 1985, the final hearing on our appeal of the Ehat lawsuit was heard before three judges of the 10th circuit court. The hearing went very well for our lawyer. Mr. Ehat’s lawyer, on the other hand, had a difficult time fielding the thorny questions the judges threw…
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Tanners’ Riches
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The following appeared in a letter which we received from Minnesota: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Tanner: . . . I have a Mormon friend that claims that you . . . are involved in anti-Mormon publishing because of the money involved. . . . Would you folks like to address the charge that you are only…
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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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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…