This time it is Nauvoo, and the dispute is over the location of a visitors center

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/11/12/latter-day-saints-find-themselves/

"Earlier this year, officials with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City arrived in Nauvoo to announce plans for what they said was a “historic visitor center,” which would sit next to the faith’s rebuilt and rededicated temple.

It appears that few if any in Nauvoo publicly oppose the construction of a visitor center. It is all about location, location, location."

"Indeed, the church “could make this such a win-win for this community if they would just move it a couple of hundred feet to the west,” Janet Hill, a transplanted Utahn who ran an art gallery in Nauvoo until earlier this fall, said in an interview. “They could regain the good feelings in the community.”

"Yet, in their revised plan, Latter-day Saint officials suggested that “if their demands weren’t met,” Nauvoo resident Karen Ihrig wrote in a memo to the council, “they could ‘trigger’ RLUIPA (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000).”

This was “a bridge too far,” Ihrig wrote, “a strong-armed, bullying tactic meant as an unveiled threat.”

"Then, in 1999, then-church President Gordon B. Hinckley announced that the temple would be rebuilt. Hinckley himself dedicated it on June 27, 2002 (the 158th anniversary of Smith’s death)."

"And Hinckley promised, according to a report in the local newspaper, the Hancock County Journal-Pilot, that no other structure would ever be built on that hill to “obstruct the view from the temple.”

"Not listening to opponents’ worries or not remembering Hinckley’s purported promise, Speed said, leaves some Nauvoo residents feeling betrayed."

Strong-armed bullying indeed. Seems to have become TSCC's 14th article of faith.

That was interesting to read about Hinckley's promise. But now they have a current prophet who knows God changed His mind!

I wonder how much money the church spends on legal fees to force their way into communities everywhere. I suspect they have their own legal team that specializes in that by now.

You'd think the Mormon church would get tired of doing things that make people think less of them, but no. They have money they need to spend so none of that matters anymore.

> That was interesting to read about
> Hinckley's promise.  But now they
> have a current prophet who knows
> God changed His mind!


Recall that in an early 1990s April Conference Rusty Crotch Nelson said "mormon" is bad word and the following October Conference Hinckley lied and said "mormon" wasn't a bad word, so nothing Hinckley said or did needs any special repudiation; the Hinckster is all bad, all the time.

Yay, Rusty!

Superseding - Replacing the previous 13 AoF;

The times,they are a-changing!

Did the corporation lobby for the resources land use act?

Orrin Hatch was the sponsor

Good grief. Hatch was the gift that keeps on giving.

It all comes down to doing what the current prophet says. There is no questioning at LDS Corp. headquarters. "You do what you are told."

If Nelson wants it on the hill, then thats what he gets, no matter what was said before or after by any other prophet.

People who work for the church give new meaning to the term "sheep".

IDK, but the bible describes Jesus as one who advocated for all, but LDS Corp. just cannot seem to grasp that concept.

Church leadership = awful human beings.

Sooner or later the bullying by church leaders against non-Mormons will come back to bite them.