In answering some false and scurrilous charges published against the Latter-day Saints, the President of the Church, who then was Wilford Woodruff, on January 9, 1891, wrote to the
editor of the Illustrated American. President Woodruff referred to the doctrine herein being considered as “the blood atonement fiction,” and as “the false theory of blood atonement copied by the writer in the American from old newspaper fiction.”
Then he recites what the doctrine of the Church is when the term blood atonement is used simply as a synonym for capital punishment.
explain the REST of the quotes then.
Why can’t the LDS just admit it was a doctrine taught and practiced in early Utah???!?!
Why all the lies and coverup?