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Note: Columnist Doug Gibson is a Mormon.

From the column: The recent publication of “The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes” by Signature Books provides detailed accounts of the Nauvoo Stake’s high council meetings. It’s very interesting reading. The High Council was a political tool, a body used to cast out prominent church members who did not support Brigham Young’s claim of leadership, or the church’s still-secret embrace of polygamy. The purge of those who did not support Young in the months following Smith’s murder is an important part of LDS Church history. The Machiavellian tactics, while ruthless and arbitrary, ultimately underscored why the Mormons survived the Nauvoo disaster and thrived. They needed a “dictator,” — Young — not afraid to seize control and exercise it.

Mormons...you need to "bone up" on history and understand your spiritual forefathers named your most prominent universities after a man who took almost 60 wives and was a spiritual "dictator."

From the column: According to Young ally Orson Hyde, Rigdon, when asked that he surrender his license, threatened to publish “the history of this people since they came to Nauvoo of all their iniquity and midnight abominations.” Rigdon was referring to polygamy, and it was personal to him. His daughter, Nancy Rigdon, when 19, had resisted Joseph Smith’s efforts to make her a plural wife.

The source cited here was Lds "apostle" Orson Hyde...he wasn't a "bit" player...Hyde offered up his wife to Smith...while remaining married to her...one of 11 such "wives" Smith commandeered while they remained married to their husbands...Hyde was President of the Lds Quorum of the 12 Apostles for 28 years (1847-1875)!!!

From the column: There’s no way to know if Joseph Smith — had he lived — would have abandoned his polygamy experiment. Under Young’s leadership, however, it was here to stay, and opposition to “the principle” would not be tolerated.

Here's one for you (and all other MORMON-HATERS) to chew on:

From the hadith of Bukhari, volume 5, #234

"Narrated Aisha: The prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six.

We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Harith Kharzraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me.

She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became all right, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said,

"Best wishes and Allah's blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's messenger came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of NINE YEARS OF AGE."

John Taylor speaking of Sydney Rigdon

He said “… he (Rigdon) is in possession of the same spirit which hurled the devil & those who we{r}e with him from heave(n) down to perdition(.)”
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Think for a mo just who did the hurling...

That means Taylor was admitting that he himself was of another spirit...

The spirit of the one who was hurled...

Joey Smith and later Brigham Young and his cohorts tended to intertain devils and speak highly of them in their pagan rituals..