Monday, April 16, 2012

When Mormons Were Socialists: Why the Mormon Church's Founders Would be Very Disappointed in Mitt Romney

http://www.alternet.org/story/154985/when_mormons_were_socialists%3A_why_the_mormon_church%27s_founders_would_be_very_disappointed_in_mitt_romney?page=entire
"As an outcast faith, early Mormons experimented with communal living and alternative marriages. This original brand of Mormonism was typified by their rugged frontier prophet and polygamist outsider Brigham Young. In 1848, Young famously declared, “There shall be no private ownership of the streams that come out of the canyons, nor the timber that grows on the hills. These belong to the people: all the people.”"

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