{"id":2615,"date":"2013-05-01T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2013-05-01T12:43:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T18:43:28","slug":"2-7-mormon-fundamentalism-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"2.7: Mormon Fundamentalism, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/2\/007_fundies.mp3\"><b>This episode<\/b><\/a> takes me back to my childhood roots as an independent Mormon fundamentalist. Matt and I trace the history of the fundamentalist Mormon movement from the advent of polygamy through the era of federal prosecutions for cohabitation (here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/images\/polygsinprison.jpg\"><b>higher resolution picture of the Utah jailbirds<\/b><\/a>, including Apostle George Q. Cannon), the Manifesto, the Reed Smoot hearings, and finally to Lorin C. Woolley&#8217;s claims surrounding John Taylor&#8217;s 1886 &#8220;revelation&#8221; (which I refer to as the &#8220;sentinel event&#8221; of fundamentalist Mormonism &#8212; what I meant to say was &#8220;seminal event&#8221; &#8212; clearly, this podcast has made me senile), including a supposed visitation by Jesus H. Christ and a resurrected Prophet Joseph Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we talk about leaky sphincters and polecat penises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode takes me back to my childhood roots as an independent Mormon fundamentalist. Matt and I trace the history of the fundamentalist Mormon movement from the advent of polygamy through the era of federal prosecutions for cohabitation (here&#8217;s a higher resolution picture of the Utah jailbirds, including Apostle George Q. Cannon), the Manifesto, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critiques","category-mormonism","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}