Tornogal and Dennis, I am so curious to know where you find your information. If you find your information from other churches' websites or from a different religion, you are so off base. Everything you have posted about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is false. Truthrocks may not correct you because why try, you are so hard hearted, you won't listen anyway. If you are getting your information from an ex-Mormon or someone who claims they were at one time in their life, that isn't creditable. You have to research material that has credit, that has true value. Of course an ex-member is going to tell you awful things. Would you tell positive stories about an ex-husband or ex-wife? If you were fired from a job, would you tell great things about that company? My guess is you wouldn't. You would say anything that could bring them down to your level of crap. There is a reason why these things are written, to pull the weak away from the truth. Check your sources, check their credibility, and worry about yourselves. Don't worry about what a church that you don't even belong to is doing. The Catholics are getting a new Pope, you don't see me saying anything rude and ignorant. It is great news for them, let them celebrate it. Let the LDS Church celebrate their own milestones. Why not try to live in harmony?

"Truthrocks": We note you didn't refute any of the specifics posted by "Dennis," but instead only said how awful it was that he posted those things. My husband and I did a lot of research about Mormonism, and wow. Joseph Smith was a con man, and he married women who were already married to men he had sent on "missions." He also swindled people in the Kirtland Safety Society deal. The Book of Mormon is a fake. It has all kinds of animals and plants that didn't exist in this continent when the book was supposedly written. The Book of Abraham is a phony too. So, hurray for the new missions, but they are selling a fake religion. Oh, and your comment "Watch as His kingdom fills the earth..." The LDS church is now losing members in big numbers. One BYU professor said the conversion baptism rate is about the same as the number of people quitting the church every year. Good luck in growing it to "fill the Earth." It is right now 0.2% of the world population. That's a long way from "earth filling." And growth is now about flat-lined.

"Truthrocks": We note you didn't refute any of the specifics posted by "Dennis," but instead only said how awful it was that he posted those things. My husband and I did a lot of research about Mormonism, and wow. Joseph Smith was a con man, and he married women who were already married to men he had sent on "missions." He also swindled people in the Kirtland Safety Society deal. The Book of Mormon is a fake. It has all kinds of animals and plants that didn't exist in this continent when the book was supposedly written. The Book of Abraham is a phony too. So, hurray for the new missions, but they are selling a fake religion. Oh, and your comment "Watch as His kingdom fills the earth..." The LDS church is now losing members in big numbers. One BYU professor said the conversion baptism rate is about the same as the number of people quitting the church every year. Good luck in growing it to "fill the Earth."

Troll in the dungeon! How easy it must be to spout such things with nothing better than anti-LDS writers and internet sources. The fact you call it Brigham's church when he was leading it, even immediately after Joseph's death, as senior apostle even during the three year gap. Your logic fails on so many levels, even accepting your premises. First, to extend a particular instance (especially from over a century ago) to a general assumption of all who share a trait with them is bigotry by definition. You just joined the club of racists and sexists, don't you feel proud? Second, you discount all current standards and the enforcement of those standards, namely that missionaries aren't allowed to be alone at all, much less with a member of the opposite gender, and transgression of this rule leads to serious consequences. I hope you enjoy being the unhallowed hand trying to stop the work, but it cannot be stopped by any, as it is the work of God. Watch as His kingdom fills the earth, and I only pray that you will see the error of your ways before the day of Judgement. The unfair judgments you've placed here pretty perfectly match the 'judge not' thing from the bible. Good news is that its not too late to repent just yet.

I certainly hope those enthusiastic and "excited" young missionaries -- especially the males with raging hormones -- don't attempt to proselyte to my innocent young granddaughters if this recent abc4 story is any indicator: http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story/utah-missionary-faces-life-prison-for-child-rape/MKoCtkUAWEywUbbFvzimMA.cspx Yet, isn't sex the very thing that caused the early Mormon persecutions when their men seduced the wives of other men who didn't hold their so-called "holy priesthood"? Of course it is, as anyone who has spent more than five minutes researching LDS history well knows, or could logically deduce with an honest and open mind capable of accepting the facts. The adulterous affairs of Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball are but two of many examples: On one of his missions to Staffordshire, England in 1840, the married Kimball fell in love with a young woman named Sarah Peak Noon, who was married to an abusive husband -- or so Kimball claimed. When Sarah Noon finally made it to Nauvoo, Heber renewed the affair and got her pregnant. As a result, Adelbert Kimball was born on 28 May 1842, before Heber and Sarah were married in polygamy. Of course, the Kimball family then conveniently claimed that they were unsure of the date of Adelbert's birth because they didn't want it discovered that he was born before Kimball and Noon were married. And at the same time Kimball was cavorting behind his wife's back and impregnating Noon, Brigham Young was engaged in an affair of his own with the wife of William Seeley, an anti-Mormon agitator. When Seeley found out about the affair, he left his wife, Lucy Ann Decker Seeley, and brought up charges against Young and the Mormon Church for adultery. Just a few facts for the LDS people to consider, but I doubt they could handle the truth believing they belong to the "only true church" -- i.e., Brigham Young's church, since he didn't establish it until 3-1/2 years after Joseph's death. See: DHC 7:621, 9.