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A Shepherd of SouthernUtah Speaks out.
 
This out spoken person feels he must speak forth and defend truth. There are always at least two views to any question. There is the truth,and there are many views of what the truth is! 
 A number of people have spoken that they areembarrassed by one Tom Green and his plural wives, andothers like him. They are embarrassed by a family of aman and his dear wives. There are members and leadersof the large LDS Church with headquarter in Salt LakeCity, Utah and some in high places in the State of Utah,who are embarrassed by one who still lives or desires tolive according to one of the laws of the CelestialKingdom, as early taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith,the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ, under thedirection of Jesus Christ the Messiah. Anddemonstratively lived by the prophets of the Scriptures.There is just cause for their embarrassment.. Many peopleare embarrassed when they are out done by someone else!Utah government puts on trial a person who exercisesfree speech and action, without harm to anyone, exceptthe harm the State may do to this family throughlitigation. All of the true full fledged prophets of Godhave had plural wives. There is not a person on this earthwho is not a descendent of a man with more than onewife. Adam had many wives. Noah had multiple wives atthe same time during his life. Christ Jesus also was anexample of this principle in his life on this earth. Thoughthe Bible as we have it today has left out much of his life( from age twelve to thirty, and many other details), thereare other historians of the time who have written abouthis train of women.As for the age of marriage, some of the best wives andmothers of this planet were under fourteen when married,young women can be very good mothers with proper
 
support from their family. The Tom Green family seemsto be a good example of this. It is not just to pass a lawand make it retroactive to pick on a family or to put totrial so long after the action. I hope the State of Utahpainfully learns this lesson.In this age of rampant divorce, and broken families,and the pain to children who have their parents separated,it is a crime of the state to break up a functioning family.You may not agree with plural marriage. I believeaccording to the laws of the State of Utah, there is noplural marriage here, because this family did not make amarriage contract with the State. They are alsoconsenting adults. There are other cases where this hasgiven credence.You may not agree with or like your ancestry, beingdescended from families where there is more than onemother figure. You may not like to be called a descendentof a plural family, but we all are. I am proud to have suchgreat people as my ancestors. But pride gets one no place.We may be blessed because of our ancestors. We will beblessed more if we live the Laws that brought greatnessto them. I testify of this one truth. We can read all wewant about an ancestor who was involved with CelestialPlural Marriage, we can have a neighbor or familymember who lives Celestial Plural Marriage, but we donot understand Celestial Plural Marriage unless we liveand experience it first hand. We cannot receive the fullblessing of a Law of God without living according to allthe laws, rites, and ordinances pertaining to that blessing.The greatest men and women in the Scriptures andhistory, were not approved by men of State! Someexamples: The Hebrews who were thrown into thefurnace (and lived to tell about it), Moses though raisedas royalty by Egyptians was at odds with them when hefollowed God. The Mosaic or Jewish Church rejectedJesus Christ, who millions today profess. Yet, it is writtenthat though many profess a belief in Him, they do notknow Him, and He cannot acknowledge them. MartinLuther opposed some activities of the Catholic Church,which started a reformation. Joseph Smith was opposedby many ministers of the day, yet there were others whooined with him. There are many more examples ancientand modern. In 1967 this person went to the Lord infervent prayer asking whether I should stay in Idaho or
 
move back to Utah. I had to get past the evil one, thedestroyer, to get to the Eternal one of peace. I was giventhe knowledge that by moving back to Utah, I wouldcome in contact with a people who were striving to livethe Gospel and that they would be polygamous. I was amember of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter daySaints. One day while studying the D&C 132 with myfirst dear wife, she said this was telling her that she wouldbe damned. I love that dear sweetheart, the mother of ourchildren. I realized that I would be damned if I did not doall I should do. Our progress is always damned or stoppedwhenever we reject truth. Because I studied the Scripturesand doctrines of the LDS Church, my Bishop told mydear wife in my presence to divorce me if I did not quitestudying, later she told me in the presence of my familythat she would never have divorced me, had not ElderMark E. Peterson told her to do so, all because I studied.So I was excommunicated on the grounds that I "believeddoctrines no longer taught by the Church". There arethose who say that such as Tom Green are anembarrassment to the church and the State of Utah. He isnot the first to hold that position, nor will he be the last.Apostle John W. Taylor, embarrassed those who chose tobe embarrassed when he sat on the front row of LDSConference with his wives and children. PresidentWilford Woodruff was embarrassed when he realizedwhat he had done in presenting the Manifesto to theChurch, for after doing so and having it accepted by theChurch he said "I have just made a covenant with deathand an agreement with Hell," in this he fulfilledprophecy. President Heber J. Grant was anembarrassment to many when he continued to marrywives and have children, and this was well after the 1890Manifesto. He had vowed that he would continue tomarry and have children until he got a son. His great errorwas when he started the persecution of the Polygamists.There are many hypocrites among us, do we want to benumbered among them. It is a strange world that defendsthe rights of homosexuals, and fights against marriage,even when more than one woman is attracted and joinswith one man in a family relationship. This was also thestate of affairs with Sodom and Gomorra, do we want thesame fate?The Messiah will return, and when He returns, andwhen the City of Enoch Returns, there must be a Zion
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