Steve Benson and the Whore of Babylon

"In the Benson household the enemies list included: Martin Luther King, who, I was taught, was a notorious liar and a rabble-rousing communist.... and, last but not least, John F. Kennedy, who, I was told as a fourth grader on the day of his assassination, got what he deserved."
http://ffrf.org/legacy/fttoday/1999/December99/benson.html

The above recalled by Steve Benson, grandson of the Mormon Pope Ezra Taft Benson.  While one of the Twelve LDS leading Apostles,  the elder Benson served in the Eisenhower cabinet.

I'd never hold the sins of someone's parents against him.   Unless, of course, he repeats them.


Steve Benson, AZ Republic, 9/23/2015

"It is also to the Book of Mormon to which we turn for the plainest description of the Catholic Church as the great and abominable church [i.e., the Whore of Babylon]."
-- Mormon Doctrine,  Bruce McConkie, LDS First Council of the Seventy.



Steve Benson, AZ Republic, 9/27/2015

In the vein of a noble tradition: