Polygamy: The LDS Legacy That Won’t Go Away

December 17, 2013   |  

In 1890, Wilford Woodruff, the then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), issued a “Declaration” that, in effect ,suspended the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage (polygamy). Actually, polygamy was a notorious doctrine and practice of the LDS since the time of Joseph Smith. The practice…
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A Day We Shouldn’t Forget (But not just for the reason you think)

November 20, 2013   |  

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was late Friday afternoon in Mrs. Farrell’s sixth-grade class at the old Sealey Elementary School on 7th Avenue in Tallahassee. A guy named Joe and I were having fun slicing construction paper with a paper-cutter and looking forward to the weekend …
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