Pioneer Day

July 24th is celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah and in Mormon communities throughout the world although some parts of the world have difficulty relating to the concept of "pioneer". It seems to me that a fitting post for this day is the following quiz. See if you can tell which quotations are attributed to Brigham Young, second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and which ones are attributed to Warren Jeffs, the current Prophet, of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and, since May 2006, a member of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Both men had/have over 20 wives and 100 children. (Quiz presented with thanks to enochville).

I think it's interesting what a different perspective we can get in 150 years.

(scroll down for answers and references).

Quotes:
1) "And the lesson is, if anyone mingles their seed, their bloodline, with the seed of Cain, the Negro, they also would lose all rights and priesthood blessings."

2) "You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin."

3) "So I give you this lesson on the black race that you can understand its full effects as far as we are able to comprehend. And that we must beware - if we are for the prophet, the priesthood - we will come out of the world and leave off their dress, their music, their styles, their fashions; the way they think, what they do, because you can trace back and see a connection with immoral, filthy people."

4) "The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy."

5) "Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so."

6) "It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God. So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God."

7) "You say, "That man ought to die for transgressing the law of God." Let me suppose a case. Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, an put a javelin through both of them, you would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the kingdom of God. I would at once do so in such a case; and under such circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands."

8) "So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood. ...

9) "Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living."

10) "Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."

11) "There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . . "

12) "Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned."
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Answers:
1)WJ http://tinyurl.com/rx734
2)BY (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 7, page 290; Often credited to WJ, but BY said it 1st)
3)WJ http://tinyurl.com/rx734
4)BY (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 269).
5)BY (Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, page 110.)
6)WJ http://tinyurl.com/rx734
7)BY (Journal of Discourses 3:247)
8)WJ http://tinyurl.com/rx734
9)WJ http://tinyurl.com/rx734
10)BY
11)BY (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, page 247; see also, Vol. 4, pp. 53-54, 219-220.)
12)BY (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 266).