I read a book titled: “The Money and the Power, The Making of Las Vegas and It’s Hold on America” which is written by Sally Denton and Roger Morris. This is an excellant and very well researched book which explores the history of Las Vegas and it’s interaction with politics, organized crime and business. One of the surprising facts revealed by this book is the role of the Mormon church in the development of Los Vegas. Some of the top bankers who built up Las Vegas were Mormons. I don’t want to pick on the Mormons, and I know that there is corruption in every church, but what I read about Vegas gave me the impression that business was a big part of the Mormon religion. Maybe this isn’t fair to say, but I wonder if they maybe were compromised by their perhaps too close connections with the business community.
The LDS has always been about money and sex. Their founding “prophet” was a con man who liked buggering teen girls. Their “Quorum of the 12” sit in the LDS palaces laughing all the way to the bank while looking out over their followers who have been intrigued with stories of LDS superiority, Jesus and the Indians and how the men will become gods and get their own planet full of “wives” to bugger all they want. There is no surprise in this.