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A FAIR Analysis of:
Criticism of Mormonism/Books
A work by author: Sally Denton

Claims made in "Chapter 5: Salt Lake City, August 24, 1849"

Page Claim Response Author's sources

67

  • The author notes that several new federal officials fled the Utah Territory because they felt threatened.
  • House Exec. Doc. 25, 15 quoted in David L. Bigler, Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1998), 59. (bias and errors) Review

68-69

  • Blood atonement
  • Gunnison, 83.

69

  • The author claims that apostasy and adultery were punishable by beheading.
  • Gunnison, 72.

70

  • Brigham is claimed to have said that the revelation on polygamy said that "all worthy men" should cleave to as many women as possible.
  • According to the author, this was said by Brigham Young at "an emergency conference of Young's apostles organized in August 1852."

70

  • Brigham said that Adam was God and was a polygamist.
  • According to the author, this was said by Brigham Young at "an emergency conference of Young's apostles organized in August 1852."

73

  • Brigham is said to have threatened to "unsheathe" his bowie knife against the Gladdenites.

I say, rather than that apostates should flourish here, I will unsheath my bowie knife, and conquer or die. [Great commotion in the congregation, and a simultaneous burst of feeling, assenting to the declaration.] Now, you nasty apostates, clear out, or judgment will be put to the line, and righteousness to the plummet. [Voices, generally, "go it, go it."] If you say it is right, raise your hands. [All hands up.] Let us call upon the Lord to assist us in this, and every good work.

  • No source provided.