It was today's Mormon Jeopardy answer.

this is now Beyond Disgusting.

May we could come up with a batch of LDS/Mormon topics and send them to Jeopardy and see if any of them make the big board.

Was that the listed fact: "Polygamy outlawed in Utah" ... ?

And if so, what was the Jeopardy correct question?  Although polygamy was outlawed via a federal statute, thus it just wasn't Utah, but the whole, incomplete USA!


I'm gonna guess (you knew I would!!) that it was:

"What did the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers want once Brigham Young died?"

If memory serves, there was 1 (?) failed law prior to the one that was upheld by the USSC.

Pandering on a Dead Issue which shows how desperate Jeopardy! is for ‘interesting’ material.

My choice for categories I have a reasonable chance of scoring with:

Washington State

Mormonism

Law/ Legal

Transportation

Bible

Electrical concepts & construction

Morrill Act 1862.
Not enforced because Lincoln was (understandably) more concerned with the Civil War than Utah polygamy - and didn't want to take the chance that BY would try to join the Confederacy.

Participate in the U.S. Civil War…

btw, how can any war be ‘civil’??

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> btw, how can any war be ‘civil’??


Impossible!  Mutual combatants hardly ever say 'please' and 'thank you'!!


Although there were the WW1 1914 and 1915 Christmas Day truces!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce#:~:text=The%20Christmas%20truce%20(German%3A%20Weihnachtsfrieden,World%20War%20around%20Christmas%201914.

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> Participate in the U.S. Civil War…
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> btw, how can any war be ‘civil’??

The Atlantic magazine sent a reporter out west in 1861. Both Heber C Kimball and Brigham Young viewed the war as punishment for not accepting the saints. Heber C Kimball went so far to say that after the men back east have killed each other the women will come to Utah and become the brides of Mormon men.

For LDS young men to leave the IMW to die, be injured in ‘The War Between the States’ surely would have been excessively Stupid; BY, for whatever reason not to engage, was smart / brilliant. no doubt.

In the north it's The Civil War. In the south it was The War Between The States. In Texas it was The War Of Northern Aggression.

Excellent example of Perspective.

Another one with participants using different descriptors based on perspective is “wedding night.”