WHEN AN IDEA BECOMES AN IDEAL (Hill vs. AU

            Joseph Smith had an idea – a way to “legitimize” having sex with many women.  The idea was Section 132, the infamous and highly controversial plural marriage “revelation.” Little did Joseph know that Brigham Young would turn his idea into an “ideal.”

            The word ideal has two meanings, both of which apply to Section 132.  An ideal is something that exists in the mind – the imagination.  Ideal also reflects perfection – a standard of excellence worthy of imitation. 

            AUB purports to be the apotheosis of Mormonism – not only in practicing all of God’s laws, but as the one and only group having God’s authority.  Of course there are other self-appointed prophets and groups making the same claim – FLDS, TLC, Church of the Firstborn, the Kingston Clan, etc.

             What, if anything, do all of these “ideal” groups practicing “God’s ideal principle” have in common?  They are accountable to no one but themselves and that means they can make up their own rules when it comes to obtaining plural wives, protecting and strengthening their power base. 

            It is a matter of court record that God approved of AUB stealing Virginia Hill’s money.  Presumably that means in God’s eyes and the “blurred” eyes of the AUB faithful, AUB is innocent of any wrong doing.  In regard to the current prophet of AUB, J. LaMoine Jenson, his “innocence” is implied in that God would certainly not allow his chosen prophet to be a thief.  And Jenson’s innocence is implied by his claim that neither he nor his Lumber Company kept any of Virginia’s money.  The fact that he was complicit in a conspiracy to unlawfully launder a half million dollars of Virginia’s money into an AUB bank account, he thinks, does not impugn his good name.

            Sometime in the first two weeks of the 1010 NEW YEAR we should hear from Judge Eyre and how he has treated the augmentation of the rest of AUB’s legal obligation to Virginia Hill.  How are the “ideal” prophet and “ideal” group expected to react to the “augmentation?”  Rumor has it that they will once again appeal.

            Reliable information reveals that the “ideal” prophet and his “ideal” priesthood sycophants are hitting up the more affluent members for additional donations to help fight the evil Virginia Hill, her investigators and attorney.  So how will this money be used?

            If AUB appeals and they want to prevent Hill from going after AUB assets while the appeal is being considered, AUB, Jenson, et. al., will be required to post another bond.  The last bond was in the neighborhood of $750,000.00.  Depending upon how the Augmentation reads another appeal bond could be much more.  Where will this money come from?  Where did the first bond money come from?  According to informants, the money came from AUB members and not the actual men who committed the “pattern of criminal activity.”

            In order to justify using tithing money and inducing additional donations from affluent members, the “ideal” prophet and priesthood must convince the laity that Hill and her investigators, former AUB members, are evil and they, AUB leaders, are innocent in God’s eyes of any wrong doing.  How they do this in the face of overwhelming culpable evidence is an abstruse but explainable conundrum.

            The AUB God is an imaginary deity that is created to approve of the acts and pretensions of the AUB priesthood.  One such pretense is that it is a sin to question the infallibility of the AUB priesthood.

            What a burden the AUB priesthood is expected to place on the shoulders of the faithful, philistine-like members.  It comes after Xmas, near tax time, in a weak economy, donating money to an exorbitant bond that will only delay the inevitable and will be lost just as the first bond money was lost. 

            The “ideal” fundamentalist group is justified in lying, deceiving, cheating, stealing, exploiting females and even killing nonconforming members and gentiles.  The “ideal” fundamentalist individual or group is working towards imitating the homosexual protagonists in establishing a “politically correct” portrayal of how they think society should view them – not by the merits but by a defective, corrupt ideal. 

            Some suggestive reading that will support the above:

            His Favorite Wife, Trapped In Polygamy, A True Story of Violent Fanaticism, by Susan Ray Schmidt. Susan was born and raised in the Church of the Firstborn, the “ideal” church of the LeBaron clan, from which mass murderer, Ervil LeBaron evolved.

            Stolen Innocence, My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, by Elissa Wall.  Elissa was born and raised in the “ideal” FLDS.