This isn't news to most of us, but I laughed at the article on Cracked this morning.

"mormons-run-las-vegas-5-realities-sin-citys-history" on cracked . com (don't know why I can't post the link)

As long as those hefty tithing checks kept rolling in, I'm sure no one in SLC had a problem with Mormons working in casinos.

"No one in SLC had a problem with Mormons working in casinos"

Actually they did. Up until around 1980 (somebody check the date) you could not work in a casino and also hold a temple recommend.

You could, however, simultaneously go to the temple and own a casino.

The double standard ended only after a bunch of lower-class scum made their plight public (i.e., to the non-Mormon media).

slskipper Wrote:
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> "No one in SLC had a problem with Mormons working
> in casinos"
>
> Actually they did. Up until around 1980 (somebody
> check the date) you could not work in a casino and
> also hold a temple recommend.
>
> You could, however, simultaneously go to the
> temple and own a casino.

Well, that is MORmON *logic*, sensibilities and priorities in action.

> The double standard ended only after a bunch of
> lower-class scum made their plight public (i.e.,
> to the non-Mormon media).


LDS Inc banking interests financed the construction of Las Vegas.

LDS Inc banking interests are STILL financially benefiting from being the financial bedrock of a Las Vegas gaming operations.

LDS Inc PR is CURRENTLY in the effort of scrubbing the internet of sources that reflect that reality, just as they scrubbed the internet of details of LDS Inc involvement with the 2002 Olympic bid bribery scandal.

The MORmON church is a criminal enterprise that poses as a religion.

To be fair, the Mormon church is not a criminal organization. It is an unethical one.

The MORmON church IS a criminal enterprise.

The MORmON church continually broke the law as they conducted their illegal prop 8 campaign. They were found outside of the law by two courts in California.

The MORmON church exclusively funded the 2002 Olympic bid bribery scandal. Federal prosecutors prepared a corruption case. That would have included charges against LDS Inc. IT was derailed by a MORmON judge.

The MORmON church constantly extorts money from people based on threats,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xaYMdHNILw

and on promises of things that it can not possibly deliver/ that will NEVER be delivered. That is FRAUD. FRAUD is a crime.

The MORmON CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE carries out that scam to the extent of doing a the equivalent of a "Bernie Madoff" every year. DO you have any idea where Bernie Madoff will be spending the rest of his life?

http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/66468/index1.html

The MORmON CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE repeatedly gets away with its industrial level of crime by invoking religious privilege/ operating in the name of Jesus Christ.

The fact that the MORmON criminal enterprise has gotten away with these crimes, and so many others, does not mean that LDS Inc is not a criminal enterprise.

MORmONISM was founded on FRAUD and criminal activity. The Book of MORmON is a FRAUD. MORmON Polygamy was illegal in every place where it was practiced. Joseph SMith committed bank fraud. Joseph Smith used his MORmON church to continue to perpetrate criminal activity, on a personal level and on an institutional level. Brigham Young did the same. Both Smith and Young were responsible for the deaths of others.

Are you aware of the FACT that numerous MORmON executive leaders have served prison time ????? Have had warrants issued for their arrest?

you obviously have NO idea of the vast extent of LDS Inc / MORmON "church" criminal activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsi-r1amY0

I am just hitting the high points here.

And EVEN IF LDS Inc has a bunch of church houses where its members talk about doing good and being good, that really does not diminish the reality of its criminal activity.

Go rob a bank, and then tell the court that criminal deed is really only a very small part of your life which is mostly very good and benevolent, see how far that gets you in avoiding being prosecuted.

its too bad that LDS Inc has gotten away with its extensive CRIMINAL activities, but even so it is STILL a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.

Not quite accurate. Mormon bankers laundered Mob money that was in the form of loans from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. It didn't come from the LDS church.

"He facilitated loans from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund to Las Vegas casinos"

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Parry_Thomas

Interesting typo on that page about Thomas:

" During World War II, he served in the United States Army as an intelligent operative."

That should be "intelligence operative."
We don't know how intelligent he was/is :)

Interesting about the temple recommends, but, would the Mormon church still take their tithing dollars? If so, I'd add that to the stack of "reasons why Mormons are hypocrites".

When I was a youngster, those many years ago, the saying was "in Las Vegas the mafia controls the gambling and sex, The Mormons control everything else."

When I was on my mission, 68-70, in Sao Paulo, Brasil, there was an elder there from Las Vegas. He was in the same district or city...funny how that stuff is forgotten now that I'm an old man.

We eventually became companions and he was one of the best I had. I would have to look in my diary to tell you where I worked with him but he was a nice guy.

He told me once that his dad wasn't active in church since he worked in a casino as a dealer and would drive him to church on Sundays on his way to the casino. He said that Las Vegas had lots of Mormons but lots weren't active because they couldn't get recommends since they worked in a casino. At the time, I thought it was odd.

I roomed with guy at BYU who worked in sales at the Sands after he graduated. He got married in the LA Temple and had a reception at the Sands. Circa 1975.

Years ago there was an article in the WSJ the title of which was something like: In Las Vegas Mormons can work in casinos, just don't touch the money. You could be a manager and be in good standing in the church, but you could not work on the floor where the gambling took place. Soon after the WSJ article the church changed its policy. I asked a bishop who had grown up in Las Vegas about the policy change. He said it was because the church realized that people had to eat. That sounds good but I think it was more the WSJ.

Memikeyounot- since there was a Sai Paulo mission ALL THE WAY BACK in 1968-70
Shouldn't there be a whole lot more Mormon converts in Brazil by now?
46 years of Missionary service = how many baptisms????

Apparently the evidence points to oodles and oodles of baptisms, but few real converts.

I'm not sure what your question is, unfortunately. I haven't been back to Brasil since I left. Our mission always baptized lots of people but lots of them didn't stay active, which is common all over the world.

No clue how many baptisms since then. There has been church presence in Brasil since before WWII and there are lots of members there, again not all active.