1385: THE LEGAL CASE FOR MORMON CHURCH FRAUD – GADDY VS. THE LDS CHURCH JANUARY 14, 2021
This podcast was mostly an interview with RFM (Radio Free Mormon) about the amended complaint in the Gaddy lawsuit. I blogged about the original suit in 2019, expecting it to fail on a motion to dismiss, which it did.
The amended complaint adds a new theory that would probably be no more successful, except for a few developments since the original one was filed.
The "stone-in-the-hat" narrative (SITH) is now quasi-official. The Ensign quoted David Whitmer on the subject a year ago, which I blogged about here:
https://www.bookofmormoncentralamerica.com/2020/01/january-2020-ensign.html
and here:
https://www.bookofmormoncentralamerica.com/2020/01/january-2020-ensign-more-to-discuss.html
The Saints book establishes SITH, as well. SITH was an emphasis at BYU Education week in 2019, about the time when I first posted on the lawsuit.
https://www.bookofmormoncentralamerica.com/2019/08/byu-education-week-peep-stones-vs-urim.html
It seems to me that the plaintiff can rely on the revisionist LDS historians who have repudiated what Joseph and Oliver taught about the translation and the New York Cumorah. Through the academic cycle, these scholars have persuaded younger generations that Joseph didn't really translate anything, but merely read words that appeared on the stone-in-the-hat.
The alternative interpretation, as I've explained in detail elsewhere, is that Joseph used SITH as a demonstration but actually translated the ancient plates with the Urim and Thummim.
My prior posts about this lawsuit:
https://www.bookofmormoncentralamerica.com/2019/08/peep-stone-lawsuit-and-m2c.html
https://www.bookofmormoncentralamerica.com/2019/08/peep-stones-part-7.html
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