The Mormon cult claims to hold marriage as a "sacred institution." This
accounts for their spending millions of dollars in Hawaii and throughout the
United States in attempts to keep gay marriage illegal. They also encourage
so-called "experts" from their church owned Universities to testify that for
some reason gay marriage threatens heterosexual marriage.
I find the cult's behavior, and beliefs regarding marriage to be hypocritical
since they will not stop marriages in Utah from being legal forms of
pedophilia. In Utah it is legal for 14 year old girls to marry, and many do
to older men. The Mormon cult could easily stop this abuse by passing
legislation preventing the marriage of 14 year olds. The Utah State
Legislature receives it's marching orders directly from the Mormon cult; and
if the cult decided that 14 year old girls should not marry then they could
get the bill passed easily.
I have been thinking about why the cult would oppose gay marriage, and
support the marriage of young girls to pedophiles. The gay marriage answer is
easy; they are appealing to the phalanx of Christian homophobes in order to
make their church seem more like a mainstream Christian cult.
To understand why the cult will not protect young people from pedophiles one
need only look into Mormon history. The cult's founder Joseph Smith was a
polygamist known to have a minimum of 30 wives, many of whom were already
married to other living men. But that is in reality nothing to other of
Smith's criminal sexual behaviors. Joseph Smith was a pedophile. He married
14 year old Helen Mar Kimball when he was in his 30's. He proposed marriage
to a 12 year old girl, fortunately he did not get his hands on her!
If the modern Mormon cult were to push legislation banning the marriage of 14
year old girls to older men they would be admitting that their prophet was a
pedophile! It is no wonder then that they choose to allow this atrocity to be
continued in Utah. The Mormon cult will go to any lengths to cover it's
embarrassing past. To admit that their prophet was a pedophile/rapist would
be to damage their claim as "The one true church on the face of the earth."
The bottom line is that the cult allows innocent girls to be raped in order to
save face. To allow this type of atrocity to continue in the name of
creationist cult lunacy is beyond my comprehension.
Best of luck sir, and please continue to stop the lunacy.
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:06:58 EST
Subject: The Mormon Cult keeps pedophilia legal in order to cover it's embarrassing past.
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