Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reed Smoot Hearings
In 1904 the US senate held a series of debates about whether to seat Reed Smoot, the senator-elect from Utah, who was not a polygamist, but who was a member of the LDS church's quorum of twelve apostles. During the debates, senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania glared at one his Senate colleagues who was well-known as a womanizer and said, "As for me, I would rather have seated beside me in this chamber a polygamist who doesn't polyg than a monogamist who doesn't monog."
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Very perspicacious post. Might put you on the fast track to excommunication in a currently very smothering theological climate - somewhat like a biology professor recommending that now would be a good time to require that neo-Darwinian evolution theory proponents show proof of its scientific validity.
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