[lbo-talk] wackos infighting

[Jesse Lemisch]

But an incidental effect of converting the dead is the LDS magnificent
collection of genealogical records, extraordinary for researchers. To
convert them, you have to locate them, and thus Mormon and non-Mormon alike
have had access to their collected tax, census, marriage, death, etc.
records, through which it's possible to trace something of the lives and
movements of otherwise "nameless" people. For a long time we used them on
interlibrary loan of microfilm. I believe they are now digitizing them.

Jesse Lemisch

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From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] wackos infighting


> <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3>
>
> In her look at Gov. Mitt Romney's (R-MA) Mormon religion, the Los
> Angeles Times' Elizabeth Mehren gets Ted Haggard, president of the
> National Association of Evangelicals, to say that evangelicals are
> "appalled" by customs such as marrying people after they have died
> and converting the dead. LINK
>
> More Haggard: "We evangelicals view Mormons as a Christian cult
> group. A cult group is a group that claims exclusive revelation. And
> typically, it's hard to get out of these cult groups. And so
> Mormonism qualifies as that."
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