OB Huntington was a faithful member of the LDS Church and a friend and confidant to Joseph Smith. If that makes him a crackpot.... well maybe it does.
Do you think these quack quotes are a representation of LDS doctrine?
Mormon Prophet Brigham Young (whom I am sure knew more about Mormon Doctrine than you) said:
"Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening called the moon? ...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the ignorant of their fellows. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain," (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 217).
Do I think that the crackpots that started the KKK and murdered blacks and Jews represented the beliefs of the Evangelical movement in early part of the last century?
So you are comparing Oliver Huntington and Brigham Young to the KKK?
Bruce R. McConckie was a faithful apostle, and his book “Mormon Doctrine” was never considered MORMON DOCTRINE. Need there be any better example of what I mean?
The LDS do not claim any Prophets of Apostles, anciently or modern to be infallible. Men are men, and God works through men through his spirit. But men are still men, with ideas and free agency and brains to think for themselves.
If you think that all Southern Baptists are racist and murderous in their hearts because of the actions of a few evil men in the KKK, then that would show you where your line of thinking is taking you.