I really shouldn't allow myself to keep getting drawn into your puerile attempts to derail thread after thread with absurd, off-topic slurs against my religion, but nevertheless…
So far as I know, nobody here belongs to any cult that says that.
Mormons Once Aspired to Be a 'White and Delightsome' People
Nothing in that article supports your claim about our beliefs.
And it's not even terribly factual. It's mostly just an interview with a historian, who has some opinions about the church, and some of his own interpretations of some of our past teachings and practices, that I think I can safely say that most Mormons would not agree with. It reads like the thoughts of someone who started with a preformed conclusion, and then did biased
“research” to support that conclusion, seeking information that supported his premise, often twisting it and/or taking it out of context to do so; rather than that of an honest researcher who sought facts, and formed his conclusion after analyzing those facts.
I'd never heard of him, before, but after writing the above, I googled his name, and what I found pretty solidly supports my impression of him. He's someone who started from the premise that there is, to use his own words that you quoted, a
“…kind of white supremacy that’s at the heart of a lot of Mormon history…”, and then all the
“research” that he subsequently did was biased to support that premise.
Emma Green: There’s been
talk about an emerging Mormon alt-right, populated by Mormon white nationalists. Much of this has focused on a Utah woman who blogs under the name ‘Wife with a Purpose,’ who created
a “white-baby challenge” for fellow Mormons to perpetuate their putatively white heritage. What do you make of this?
We are, of course, meant to take from this that this
“Wife with a Purpose” is representative of the Mormon church and of Mormons in general, but both of the cited articles make it clear that no, she is not.
From the
Salt Lake Tribune Article:
Mormonism is doomed if it continues to celebrate racial and ethnic diversity, to support refugees and immigrant families, and to debase Western, white culture.
At least that's the view of one Latter-day Saint, a blogger named Ayla, who tweets as Nordic Sunrise and "Wife With A Purpose" — despite the fact that her church disagrees with her on all those points.
From the
Buzzfeed article:
Her comment came in a post titled "Mormon 'Rap' and the Destruction of White, Western, Mormon Culture." It was jarring; Mormons are known for their moderate positions on issues like immigration and diversity, famously putting them at odds with now-President Trump. Extreme movements such as the alt-right…are anathema to many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).
I note that the Buzzfeed article makes quite a few unsupported generalizations about Mormons. We have over 13 million members, as of the last count, in almost all nations and cultures around the world. Outside of beliefs, standards, and practices which are specific to the church, there really isn't much that you can honestly generalize about us. And, on that note, the
Salt Lake Tribune article states:
At least that's the view of one Latter-day Saint, a blogger named Ayla, who tweets as Nordic Sunrise and "Wife With A Purpose" — despite the fact that her church disagrees with her on all those points.
Still — because the mother of six has nearly 22,000 Twitter followers, has been interviewed multiple times on radio and maintains a strong presence on social media — some see her as representing a "growing" alt-right LDS subculture.
As I said, at last count, there are over thirteen million of us. 22,000 is about 0.17 of a % of us. One out of about every 600. That's an insignificant fringe of extreme outliers, not
“a ‘growing’ LDS subculture”. I have no doubt that you'd find a similar, if not bigger portion out of the U.S. population as a whole, or out of just about any other reasonable subset.
