Utah
is likely planning on leaving the Union.
The evidence for this, most recently, comes in the form of the signing
of SB102 by Utah’s Gov Gary Herbert.
This act reduces the severity of the penalties for polygamy to that of
an infraction, something akin to a traffic ticket:
Thus,
after generations of battling with Washington City over one of their core,
defining doctrines and practices, the Mormons are reclaiming their autonomy
from the Feds. Now a new era likely
begins in the States, one in which ‘Mormon exceptionalism’ rises to displace
‘American exceptionalism’. Whatever
yardstick one uses - be it work ethic, outward morality and good societal
order, dedication to family and religion, material prosperity, scientific
innovation, etc. - the Mormons have outdone and will continue to outdo their
New England Yankee forebears. And this
will happen because Mormons have established what the Puritans in New England
failed to: a theology that brings all
their worldly passions and ambitions into a harmonious system. Puritanism tried and failed, falling first
into Social Gospel nonsense and then into outright agnosticism and
atheism. But Joseph Smith et al. have
succeeded where they failed. And now the
theocracy in Utah is confident enough that it will resume building the ‘true
Kingdom of God’ in North America and beyond one polygamous marriage at a time.
Just
as their Yankee forebears, Mormons have always viewed themselves as a people
‘set apart’, ‘chosen’, having a ‘special mission to fulfil’. The heretical ‘City on a Hill’ has been
transferred from Salem to Salt Lake City.
Thus is Puritanism fulfilled in Mormonism.
In
this one may see good and evil, hope and forlornness. On the good side, it may speed the breakup of
an unnatural and dangerous union that has meant so much bloodshed and suffering
for so much of the world. On the bad
side, the open Mormon blessing of polygamy will endanger their own souls and
lead many away from the true understanding of marriage and sexuality and into
the snares of the devil and the demons.
Was the March earthquake in Utah a warning from God not to go down this
path?
What
should we hope for with regard to a separate Mormon country? We pray that God
will show us, through the prayers of the Saints of North America.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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