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    Joseph F. Smith: Freedom of Thought

    "Our people are given the largest possible latitude for their convictions, and if a man rejects a message that I may give to him but is still moral and believes in the main principles of the gospel and desires to continue his membership in the church, he is permitted to remain and he is not unchurched. It is only those who on rejecting a revelation rebel against the church and withdraw from the church at their own volition." (Reed Smoot Hearings, 1:97)
    We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
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    Originally posted by Sleeping in EQ View Post
    "Our people are given the largest possible latitude for their convictions, and if a man rejects a message that I may give to him but is still moral and believes in the main principles of the gospel and desires to continue his membership in the church, he is permitted to remain and he is not unchurched. It is only those who on rejecting a revelation rebel against the church and withdraw from the church at their own volition." (Reed Smoot Hearings, 1:97)
    Interesting.

    I love all these quotes you post, even if I don't have much to comment about them. I think we should bring "unchurched" into common parlance. Coupled with my new-found Pennsyvania dialect, we might say, "that apostate needs unchurched."
    "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
    -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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      This is a great quote.

      What were the Reed Smoot Hearings?
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        Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
        This is a great quote.

        What were the Reed Smoot Hearings?
        Reed Smoot was an apostle who was elected to the US Senate in 1902. This caused a huge national controversy and a long series of senate hearing were conducted to determine if they would allow a Mormon apostle to participate in the senate. In the end, Smoot was confirmed, but the hearings put the church in the national spotlight for a while. Among other things, it was divulged that the LDS temple ceremony at the time included a vow to extract vengeance of the people who murdered the prophet. That part was subsequently removed. Pretty fascinating story.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_(U.S._Senator)
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          Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
          Reed Smoot was an apostle who was elected to the US Senate in 1902. This caused a huge national controversy and a long series of senate hearing were conducted to determine if they would allow a Mormon apostle to participate in the senate. In the end, Smoot was confirmed, but the hearings put the church in the national spotlight for a while. Among other things, it was divulged that the LDS temple ceremony at the time included a vow to extract vengeance of the people who murdered the prophet. That part was subsequently removed. Pretty fascinating story.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_(U.S._Senator)
          OK, this makes more sense. I quickly glanced at the title of the thread and thought it was a quote by Joseph Smith, not Joseph F Smith. The overlap of Jospeh Smith and Reed Smoot was confusing. I was in the wrong time period. My bad.

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            You may have heard of Reed Smoot in history class, since he was one of the co-sponsors of the Smoot-Hawley tariff that exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression while killing trade with Europe enough to send the financial woes of Weimar Germany into the stratosphere. And we all know how that turned out.
            "More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
            -- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)

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