FC: Orson Pratt mentioned in the article, was brother to Parley P Pratt, Romney’s great great grandad. Parley and Orson were both Apostles. Parley was bowie knifed and shot by an irate husband for stealing his woman and kids to make her the 10th out of 12 wives. Eventually, Bishop Romney will be up to his ears explaining polygamy etc.
“We been through this a few weeks ago an it was in conclusive.”
What are you talking about, there’s nothing inconclusive about any of that. Maybe you will argue whether it was indeed wife stealing, but you can’t argue polygamy, being butchered with a knife by an irate husband, Romney family polygamy, connections to the Pratt’s or any of it.
Here’s the Pratt/Romney connection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt-Romney_family
Here’s some more high involvement in the Mormon Church:
Marion George Romney (September 19, 1897—May 20, 1988) was a high-ranking official of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Born in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico to parents who had come from the United States to spread the Church, he was the son of George S. Romney and a cousin of Michigan governor George W. Romney, who was born in nearby Colonia Dublan. Elder Romney’s family left Mexico in 1912 as violence from the ongoing Mexican revolution spead to their region. He spent the remainder of his youth in California and Idaho. Marion G. Romney’s 47 years as a General Authority of the Church began when he was the first person ever called to fill the position of an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1941 (the position was abolished in 1976). In 1951 he was advanced to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles himself, and served on that body until he became Second Counselor in the First Presidency when Harold B. Lee, with whom he had worked on the Church Welfare program, became Church President in 1972.
Lee’s death the following year brought Spencer W. Kimball to the Church Presidency; who retained Romney and First Counselor Nathan Eldon Tanner in their positions. As Kimball, Tanner, and Romney all became octogenarians and developed health problems, it was decided to add Gordon B. Hinckley as an additional counselor in 1981. Upon Tanner’s death in 1982 Romney was named First Counselor and Hinckley Second Counselor, but Romney was fairly inactive in this position. When Kimball died in 1985 press reports indicated Romney had not been seen in public for many months.
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The Mexican colonys were polygamist enclaves. So the Romney’s aren’t just Joe Mormon down the street, they are part of the fabric of the church.
"Are we to assume that the Lutheran leadership and its PR department don't read their church's manuals? Or are we to assume that they hope the membership doesn't? One thing is abundantly clear and that is the Lutheran Church is of often guilty of teaching two messages -- one for the membership and one for the general public."
I am a little more incline to accept wiki on things of no human topic.
When it get to things on people especially on LDS there are these Johnny come lately sites that where its we say vs. they say.
The Lord commanded Joseph and the LDS to keep journals. LDS Journal is accessible, these new anti LDS hit sites can say anything was in a journal, and I would have no way to know for sure in this modern day advent.
You how MHG accuses JS of rewriting the Bible at Least for me I know Joseph was a prophet and a rest orator.
These other guys are Johnny come lately in the 20th century!