Freeing Slaves Endangers Female Chastity

Messenger and Advocate, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp 289, 300, April 1836; “I  am aware, that many who profess to preach the gospel, complain against their brethren of the same faith, who reside in the south, and are ready to withdraw the hand of fellowship because they will not renounce the principle of slavery and raise their voice against every thing of the kind. This must be a tender point, and one which should call forth the candid reflection of all men, and especially before they advance in an opposition calculated to lay waste the fair States of the South, and set loose, upon the world a community of people who might peradventure, overrun our country and violate the most sacred principles of human society, – chastity and virtue.” – Joseph Smith

“Where can be the common sense of any wishing to see the slaves of the south set at liberty, is past our comprehension. Such a thing could not take place without corrupting all civil and wholesome society, of both the north and the south! Let the blacks of the south be free, and our community is overrun with paupers, and a reckless mass of human beings, uncultivated, untaught and unaccustomed to provide for themselves the necessaries of life endangering the chastity of every female who might be chance be found in our streets-our prisons filled with convicts, and the hang-man wearied with executing the functions of his office!” – Oliver Cowdery

Ezekiel 16:49-50; “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”

Wow. My reaction is for both God’s judgment and what Mormons have said about black people. 

Why would ‘godly men’ say such things? I can’t speak for every single black person in this U.S. and how they’d behave, but I can safely say that freeing the slaves didn’t increase the rape rate in America. 

The irony in this guy’s statement shouldn’t go unnoticed. I’d like to get Mr. Cowdery’s reaction to Utah’s vital stats for the 20^th century. It ‘just so happens’ Utah’s rape rate exceeds the national average and has done so for decades now. Keep in mind 79% of the population in Utah is white.

For the record, I included the statement from Joe Smith to repudiate Mormon claims their prophet wasn’t racist. If his statement wasn’t racist nothing is.