1. Latter-day Saints And Racism
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. ... During the last half of the nineteenth-century the government formed strict laws to thwart the strong beliefs of polygamy until church leaders denounced the practice. ... Government officials, mainly the Republican Party, began to pass strict laws concerning anyone practicing plural marriage. ... Leaders often referred to passages Smith had written about a close descendant of Ham that established the first government of Egypt; He became a very wise ...
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