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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Mormons and persecution
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 13:03:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 13:03:42 1984
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An answer to Scott McEwan
> > /**** uiucdcs:net.flame / ihuxv!cuda / 10:11 pm  Mar 15, 1984 ****/
> > Think of all the Mormons who were massacred and driven from their 
> > homes in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.  Up until 1976 it was legal
> > to shoot a Mormon on sight in Missouri.
> > 				Mike Nelson
> > 				ihuxv!cuda
> 
> I don't know which revelation is more astounding: that murder was until
> recently legal in Missouri or that Ohio, Missouri and Illinois are run
> by atheists (we ARE talking about Christians being oppressed by non-
> Christians, aren't we?)
>			Scott McEwan
> 			pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan

No, the Mormons were persecuted by Christians who thought the Mormons
had perverted Christianity. 

By the way, Mark Twain wasn't fond of Mormons, and in one of his books
(Roughing It, maybe?) he describes an alleged massacre by Mormons of a wagon
train trespassing in Utah. 

A popular myth is that an old Massachusetts law is still in the books, which
says it is still legal to shoot anyone from Rhode Island found in Massachusetts
after sundown (this may also have been a case of Christians persecuting 
Christians (the followers of Roger Williams (or was that Roger Moore?:-) )).  
However, I doubt if either the former  the Missouri law or the supposed
Massachusetts law would get you out of a murder charge. 

					Free the Mordor Nine!
					Lisa Chabot

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