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===The claim comes from a notoriously unreliable source, which gets many other details of the castration incident wrong as well=== | ===The claim comes from a notoriously unreliable source, which gets many other details of the castration incident wrong as well=== | ||
| − | There is no evidence to support this. The claim comes from a notoriously unreliable source, ''Mormonism unveiled; or, The life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop, John D. Lee'', whose author claimed that the incident was the result of a fight over a girl between Snow and Lewis, and that the castration | + | There is no evidence to support this. The claim comes from a notoriously unreliable source, ''Mormonism unveiled; or, The life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop, John D. Lee'', whose author claimed that the incident was the result of a fight over a girl between Snow and Lewis, and that the castration occurred occurred before the entire congregation, after which Snow "allegedly took the portion severed from his victim and hung it up on a nail on the Manti ward house wall so that it could be seen by all who visited the house afterwards." <ref>John A. Peterson, "[http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6041&context=etd Warren Stone Snow, a man in between: the biography of a Mormon defender]," Master's Thesis, BYU (1985) 203-2-4 n17.</ref> This is not a correct description of the incident, which occurred at night and involved a group of men intercepting Lewis as he was being transported to Salt Lake City. |
===The bishop did NOT castrate a young man because he would not give up his fiancé to another man as a plural wife=== | ===The bishop did NOT castrate a young man because he would not give up his fiancé to another man as a plural wife=== | ||
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Question: Was Thomas Lewis castrated because he wanted to marry a young woman who was desired by an older man as a plural wife?
The claim comes from a notoriously unreliable source, which gets many other details of the castration incident wrong as well
There is no evidence to support this. The claim comes from a notoriously unreliable source, Mormonism unveiled; or, The life and confessions of the late Mormon bishop, John D. Lee, whose author claimed that the incident was the result of a fight over a girl between Snow and Lewis, and that the castration occurred occurred before the entire congregation, after which Snow "allegedly took the portion severed from his victim and hung it up on a nail on the Manti ward house wall so that it could be seen by all who visited the house afterwards." [1] This is not a correct description of the incident, which occurred at night and involved a group of men intercepting Lewis as he was being transported to Salt Lake City.
The bishop did NOT castrate a young man because he would not give up his fiancé to another man as a plural wife
The rumor that Lewis was being punished for competing against an older polygamist is likely false. Lewis was being transported to the penitentiary in Salt Lake City at the time that he was attacked. He was not attacked simply for desiring a marriage. While being transported at night, Bishop Snow and his gang secretly intercepted Lewis and carried out the castration.
Notes
- ↑ John A. Peterson, "Warren Stone Snow, a man in between: the biography of a Mormon defender," Master's Thesis, BYU (1985) 203-2-4 n17.