Book of Mormon and where it actually came from

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LDS CHURCH ADVOCATES FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

HERE IS A DISPATCH FROM 1875 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LDS CHURCH FROM ITS LEADERSHIP.

What is interesting is how it talks about the distribution of wealth and the evil when only a few holds most of the wealth. It advocated a fair distribution of wealth to maintain liberty, freedom and prosperity for all.

Apparently Mitt Romney didn't get this message in church.

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The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints   1875

THE EXPERIENCE OF MANKIND has shown that the people of communities and nations among whom wealth is the most equally distributed, enjoy the largest degree of liberty, are the least exposed to tyranny and oppression and suffer the least from luxurious habits which beget vice. Under such a system, carefully maintained there could be no great aggregations of either real or personal property in the hands of a few; especially so while the laws, forbidding the taking of usury or interest for money or property loaned, continued in force.

ONE OF THE GREAT EVILS with which our own nation is menaced at the present time is the wonderful growth of wealth in the hands of a comparatively few individuals. The very liberties for which our fathers contended so steadfastly and courageously, and which they bequeathed to us as a priceless legacy, are endangered by the monstrous power which this accumulation of wealth gives to a few individuals and a few powerful corporations. By its seductive influence results are accomplished which, were it more equally distributed, would be impossible under our form of government. It threatens to give shape to the legislation, both State, and National, of the entire country. If this evil should not be checked, and measures not taken to prevent the continued enormous growth of riches among the class already rich, and the painful increase of destitution and want among the poor, the nation is likely to be overtaken by disaster; for, according to history, such a tendency among nations once powerful was the sure precursor of ruin.

YEARS AGO IT WAS PERCEIVED that we Latter-day Saints were open to the same dangers as those which beset the rest of the world. A condition of affairs existed among us which was favorable to the growth of riches in the hands of a few at the expense of many. A wealthy class was being rapidly formed in our midst whose interests in the course of time, were likely to be diverse from those of the rest of the community. The growth of such a class was dangerous to our union; and, of all people, we stand most in need of union and to have our interests identical. Then it was that the Saints were counseled to enter into co-operation. In the absence of the necessary faith to enter upon a more perfect order revealed by the Lord unto the Church, this was felt to be the best means of drawing us together and making us one.

A UNION OF INTERESTS was sought to be attained. At the time co-operation was entered upon the Latter-day Saints were acting in utter disregard of the principles of self-preservation. They were encouraging the growth of evils in their own midst which they condemned as the worst features of the systems from which they had been gathered. Large profits were being consecrated in comparatively few hands, instead of being generally distributed among the people. As a consequence, the community was being rapidly divided into classes, and the hateful and unhappy distinctions which the possession and lack of wealth give rise to, were becoming painfully apparent...

(It goes on to talk about the forming of ZCMI as a means of cooperation and distribution of wealth in the free market system)

Your Brethren:

Brigham Young, Daniel H. Wells, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards, Brigham Young Jr., George A. Smith, John taylor, Orson Hyde, Charles C,. Rich, Erastus Snow, George Q. Cannon, Albert Carrington

TV News, Mormons and Utah's Changing Demographics

WOW...  Things are a chang'n...

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Apr 12th 2012 by Rabecca Walsh, Salt Lake City Magazine.

Utahns of any age can mark time by KSL anchors and weather forecasters—Bob Welti, Paul James, Dick Nourse.


They were the dependable characters of bedtime, sandwiched between Love Boat and the Tonight Show. No need to turn the channel.

But now, like Capt. Stubing and Carson, Eyewitness News is passé. Nielsen TV ratings from February sweeps reinforced a cosmic shift in local couch potato habits: Channel 5, the station owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (and do I really need to add, the preferred news source of the Mormon faithful?) has slipped into third place, behind KUTV-Channel 2 and KSTU-Channel 13. (Those heathen channels, my words, not Rebecca Walsh's)

One should never read too much into Nielsen ratings, or television news for that matter, but KSL’s decline does raise a question: Is Utah becoming…(how to put this) more diverse?

About the same time Channel 5 salespeople got the bad news about the rates they can charge advertisers, Gallup released its annual “religiosity” study. Utah came in second—behind Bible-thumping Mississippi. Beehive Staters are no slouches; 57 percent are “very religious.” But still, No. 2 has got to be disappointing (and undermines the company line that two out of three Utahns is a church-going Mormon).

Meantime, a group of gay students at Brigham Young University joined the “It Gets Better” campaign with a video of their own. And BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins actually told CNN they won’t be summarily expelled for the their honesty because the current, kinder-gentler interpretation of the school’s honor code is “based on conduct, not on feeling, and if same-gender attraction is only stated, that is not an honor code issue.”

Back in the day, free speech was enough to get a feminist professor fired and a student’s diploma held hostage.

But these, apparently, are different times.

And then this: The news that even GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the flock’s “White Horse,” isn’t collecting nearly the campaign contributions from fellow churchgoers that he did four years ago. Beehive Staters’ donations to the former Massachusetts governor and self-described savior of the 2002 Winter Games have been cut in half.

What’s next: The Apocalypse?