[AppyPappy]

I don't want to start a fight but was he anti-Mormon or anti-LDS? Polygamy is only practiced by Mormons outside the LDS structure (they consider it apostate) and the occaisonal whacko group.

[Rubber_Duckie_27]

The Salt Lake Tribune said that he was LDS but he and Barzee were excommunicated at some point. His ex-wife just said he was "anti-Mormon" but perhaps she wasn't thinking of the apostate splinter groups...who knows? This guy seems so out there...I don't see how it matters much what he was against religiously.

He could just be a religious wacko who thought he needed an extra wife or daughter. Apparently he viewed himself as some kind of prophet.

[Spiff]

I don't want to start a fight but was he anti-Mormon or anti-LDS? Polygamy is only practiced by Mormons outside the LDS structure (they consider it apostate) and the occaisonal whacko group.

Mormon = LDS, LDS = Mormon

You can't be Mormon outside the LDS structure because they are one and the same. You can't practice polygamy or a number of other illegal and/or immoral acts and remain a Mormon. You can call yourself Mormon, the Pope, or a player for the Dallas Cowboys, but unless you are actually a member, it doesn't make it so.

[lady lawyer]

Appy, they were interviewing his mother-in-law on the radio yesterday. He was born into a Mormon family, but had gone off on a tangent of his own. A couple of other interviewees said he was into alcohol and drugs. He is clearly mentally ill, perhaps a result of the LSD is stepdaughter said he liked. I don't know if he was "anti-Mormon," as much as he had delusions of being some kind of prophet himself.