Mountain common law

[FiveFingerMnemonic]

Really interesting blog post about "Mountain common law" and honor killings over seduction and adultery. Discusses Parley P. Pratt's killing.

http://cultureofmormonism.blogspot.com/ ... t.html?m=1

[fh451]

Parley P. Pratt's death is one of those church history stories that gets the ol' white-wash treatment. McClean was no saint himself, but he was more "anti-Pratt" than "anti-Mormon." The linked article is very interesting - if McClean were Mormon himself, it sounds like fellow Mormons would have had no trouble defending him.

fh451

[deacon blues]

I recall reading something about this in one of the journal of discourses, but I can't remember where.

[Rob4Hope]

After reading in MormonThink, and also some of the things written from Grant Palmer, I am amazed at the contradictions and conflicts introduced by the idea that JS considered all marriages not solemnized by Celestial (his) Law were really null and void. A very interesting idea is the supposed marriage of Sylvia Session, and that DNA evidence has shown that the child in question was NOT his offspring. This implies clearly the Polyandry, in conflict with Brian Hale's interpretation, WAS SEXUAL. JS and Sylvia were sharing Sylvia with her then legal but not "Celestial" husband.

And, for some reason, it was OK for JS to take other men's wives, and it was OK for BY and others to invoke "blood atonement" and kill those who did the same? This "mountain common law" seems like it was justified by JS and BY because they were special, but others, like those who killed Parley, were evil?

The double standard is baffling...