From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: reparations: a Libertarian speaks out Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:28:41 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: <ronkean at juno.com> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: [WSFA] Fw: reparations: a Libertarian speaks out > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: greyno4426 at aol.com > To: mdlp at yahoogroups.com > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 04:42:31 EDT > Subject: [WSFA] [MDLP] reparations > > In the latter half of the 1800s my fraternal grandparents were subjected > to > harassment and degrading treatment on account of their religious beliefs. > > One particular religious practice, that of having more than one wife, > even > landed one great-grandfather in the Utah Penitentiary for eighteen > months. > Previous to that, many members of his religious group had been driven > from > their homes and even killed - all for trying to keep what they considered > > God's commandments. One assumes he is describing the nut cult which became the Mormon Church. "God's commandments"? Or those of an unlikely "angel" who visited Joe Smith? --Ted White