"We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth …showed first 75 words of 1892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1892 total…needed to salvation. Women and children still suffer because of the rules created by Mormons. Works Cited: Bushman, Claudia. Bushman, Richard. Mormons in America Oxford University Press. 1999 New York Givens, Terryl L. By the Hand of Mormon. Oxford University Press. 2000 New York Ostling, Richard N. Mormon America. HarperCollins Publishers. 1999 New York Coates, James In Mormon Circles. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1991 Massachusetts Krakauer, Jon Under the Banner of Heaven A Division of Random House, Inc 2003, New York