




Join Lindsay as she discusses the murders of Gentile (non-Mormon) men on the frontier who interfered with Mormon women. This post contains graphic descriptions of violence.







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* The Butler Murder of April 1869: A Look at Extralegal Punishment in Utah by Craig Foster* James Monroe Murdered by Edward Hogan* Blood in the Water: Beck Street and Blood Atonement by Michael McClane* The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, Volume 28 about Archibal N. Hill* Popular History of Utah by Orson Ferguson Whitney* Defender: The Life of Daniel H. Wells by Quentin Thomas Wells* Murder of Thomas Coleman

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Join Lindsay as she interviews Dr. Cristina Rosetti as she talks about her new book Joseph Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist.



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* Donate to Year of Polygamy



* Buy the book at Benchmark Books


Episode 198: The Father of Mormon Fundamentalism with Cristina Rosetti








In this episode, Lindsay talks with Tim Kosnoff, an expert attorney on the issue of how attitudes surrounding 19th century polygamy prosecution mirror those of clergy shield laws today. Tim has practiced law for forty years as a prosecutor, defense attorney and as a lawyer representing victims of child sexual abuse. He has extensive experience handling complex civil child sexual abuse litigation throughout the United States and Canada. He has handled thousands of complex child sexual abuse cases against religious and secular organizations including the Boy Scouts of America, the Mormon Church, the Catholic Church and a wide spectrum of other organizations. 



Links mentioned in this episode:

* Tim Kosnoff’s website
* RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
* Stopitnow.org
* Darkness to Light
* Tim’s email: tim@kosnoff.com
* Contact Tim at: 1 (425) 830-8201

 

Episode 197:  Polygamy, Mormonism and Child Abuse








In this episode, Lindsay talks with Dr. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto about the history of abortions in Mormonism.







Links mentioned in this episode:




* R. Lanier Britsch, Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific



* Hokulani Aikau, A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i



* Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific 



* Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah” in Dialogue



* Jennifer Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement



* Joshua Prager, The Family Roe



* Leslie Reagan, Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America 



* Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America



* Leslie Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in United States, 1867 – 1973



* Nicholas Syrett, The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion Illegal


Episode 196: The History of Abortion in Mormonism








In this episode, Dr. Cristina Rosetti tells us the story of Orlean Kingston’s extreme 42-day fast, her visions and her life. 



TW: This episode discusses eating disorders, scrupulosity, obsessive compulsive disorders and conversations around food restriction. 







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* Fast from that Which is Not Perfect”: Food Abstinence and Fasting Cures in the Kingdom of God by Cristina Rosetti



* More information about eating disorders



* Eating disorder helpline


Episode 195: Extreme Fasting and Perfection- the Story of Orlean Kingston





Lindsay sits down with the historian who started it all, Todd Compton. They discuss his latest book, In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents and read directly from the accounts of the wives of Joseph Smith.



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Buy the book here from Benchmark Books





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