ClydeR
08-24-2011, 10:56 AM
Thanks to the Mormons, A Study in Scarlet (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/244) has been banned (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/08/sherlock-holmes-banned-reading-lists-being-anti-mormon/41243/). What, you wonder, could possibly be in a Sherlock Holmes story that is so offensive to Mormons that they have to suppress everybody's free speech rights? A grisly murder? Profane language? No, those things are fine, but an historically accurate depiction of pre-statehood Utah is not acceptable to Mormons. Here's the offending passage.
He had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the Land of the Saints.
You all see what is happening here, I hope. Mormons are recruiting people all over the country and, as their membership grows, they are exerting greater and greater control over the rest of us. If they can do it in Virginia, they can do it where you live too.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the earthquake.
He had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the Land of the Saints.
You all see what is happening here, I hope. Mormons are recruiting people all over the country and, as their membership grows, they are exerting greater and greater control over the rest of us. If they can do it in Virginia, they can do it where you live too.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the earthquake.