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If you want more hate crimes unreported turn to the Amish. I went to university here in France and took a class with a teacher who had this special course about the U.S. and the Amish more specifically. I grew a deep respect for them. They don't believe in this earth justice, only in God's one and not for this life anyway so they will bare absolutely anything just because it is against what they believe to report any kind of discrimination against them or even crime.
She became friends with them when she was a teenager and goes back to visit her friends anytime she goes back to the us so she has seen quiet a bit of sad (to say the least) situations. But she won't do anything "for them" because it would be offending to them.
Webmaster: Thanks for your message. Hate crimes against any group are unacceptable.
Comment by Gwennaëlle — 10-3-2008, 11:41:39 AM
About Gilbert, Arizona (May 3rd, 2008): "A group approaches two teens in the park and asks if they are Mormon. When the teens reply yes, the group begins to shoot them with a pellet gun and to beat them, yelling anti-Mormon slurs during the assault. One of the Mormon teens is taken to the hospital." Do some more research I think you will be surprised at who is to blame. I know the kids and family personally and you have got your story twisted.
Webmaster: I'd love to learn that this incident was not an anti-Mormon hate crime, though as much was hinted at in the news. Can you fill us in on the details?
Comment by Anonymous — 9-2-2008, 03:29:08 AM
Hate crimes are hate crimes. If these crimes were committed against Jews, they surely would be headline news. Thank you for spreading knowledge of this injustice, keep it up.
Webmaster: Excellent point. At least society has the common sense to be appalled at crimes against some minorities. I only wish they would extend to Mormons that same protection.
Comment by Anonymous — 7-15-2008, 10:25:52 AM
Hang in there! God knows what's going on and you'll be blessed.... Here are some happy scriptures to hang your faith on: ) just keep your faith and know that God is over it!
(New Testament | Romans 5:3-5)
3 and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 and patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
(doctrine and covenants | section 58:3-4)
3 ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter, and the glory which shall follow after much tribulation.
4 for after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand.
(doctrine and covenants | section 50: 41 - 42)
41 fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world, and you are of them that my father hath given me;
42 and none of them that my father hath given me shall be lost.
Comment by Anonymous — 5-19-2008, 09:39:37 PM
We live in the Scottsdale/Phoenix Arizona area, and I have noticed a growning anti-mormon settiment over the past nine years we have lived here. Most recently, a group of teens at my son's school have been harassing my son by relentlessly "teepeeing" our home. The phoenix police won't do anything about the situation because they feel it's a harmless prank, but the frequency of their acts, extent of the mess, and ill intent behind it has constituted harassment to our entire family. As a result, we have removed our son from the public schools here and have enrolled him in a private school outside of our community.
Comment by Anonymous — 5-18-2008, 05:47:24 AM
Yeah this sounds like what was going on to the early saints.. And we read in D&C 121 Joseph's plea for help and God's reply as follows
1 O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?
2 How long shall thy hand be stayed, and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants, and thine ear be penetrated with their cries?
3 Yea, o Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions, before thine heart shall be softened toward them, and thy bowels be moved with compassion toward them?
4 O Lord God almighty, maker of heaven, earth, and seas, and of all things that in them are, and who controllest and subjectest the devil, and the dark and benighted dominion of sheol—stretch forth thy hand; let thine eye pierce; let thy pavilion be taken up; let thy hiding place no longer be covered; let thine ear be inclined; let thine heart be softened, and thy bowels moved with compassion toward us.
5 Let thine anger be kindled against our enemies; and, in the fury of thine heart, with thy sword avenge us of our wrongs.
6 Remember thy suffering saints, o our God; and thy servants will rejoice in thy name forever.
7 My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
8 And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
9 Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.
10 Thou art not yet as job; thy friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with transgression, as they did job.
11 And they who do charge thee with transgression, their hope shall be blasted, and their prospects shall melt away as the hoar frost melteth before the burning rays of the rising sun;
12 And also that God hath set his hand and seal to change the times and seasons, and to blind their minds, that they may not understand his marvelous workings; that he may prove them also and take them in their own craftiness;
13 Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost;
14 That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off;
15 And not many years hence, that they and their posterity shall be swept from under heaven, saith God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall.
16 Cursed are all those that shall lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord, and cry they have sinned when they have not sinned before me, saith the Lord, but have done that which was meet in mine eyes, and which I commanded them.
17 But those who cry transgression do it because they are the servants of sin, and are the children of disobedience themselves.
18 And those who swear falsely against my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death—
19 Wo unto them; because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances of mine house.
20 Their basket shall not be full, their houses and their barns shall perish, and they themselves shall be despised by those that flattered them.
21 They shall not have right to the priesthood, nor their posterity after them from generation to generation.
22 It had been better for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea.
23 Wo unto all those that discomfort my people, and drive, and murder, and testify against them, saith the Lord of hosts; a generation of vipers shall not escape the damnation of hell.
24 Behold, mine eyes see and know all their works, and I have in reserve a swift judgment in the season thereof, for them all;
25 For there is a time appointed for every man, according as his works shall be.
(Doctrine and covenants, Section 121:1-25)
We also need to remember that it's been said of the brethren that the saints will again be persecuted as in the days of the first saints right prior to Christ's second coming. So let's bear things well, forgive, trust, and gain a reward.
D&C section 98:23-32
23 Now, I speak unto you concerning your families —if men will smite you, or your families, once, and ye bear it patiently and revile not against them, neither seek revenge, ye shall be rewarded; 24 but if ye bear it not patiently, it shall be accounted unto you as being meted out as a just measure unto you. 25 and again, if your enemy shall smite you the second time, and you revile not against your enemy, and bear it patiently, your reward shall be an hundred fold. 26 and again, if he shall smite you the third time, and ye bear it patiently, your reward shall be doubled unto you four–fold; 27 and these three testimonies shall stand against your enemy if he repent not, and shall not be blotted out. 28 and now, verily I say unto you, if that enemy shall escape my vengeance, that he be not brought into judgment before me, then ye shall see to it that ye warn him in my name, that he come no more upon you, neither upon your family, even your children's children unto the third and fourth generation. 29 and then, if he shall come upon you or your children, or your children's children unto the third and fourth generation, I have delivered thine enemy into thine hands; 30 and then if thou wilt spare him, thou shalt be rewarded for thy righteousness; and also thy children and thy children's children unto the third and fourth generation. 31 nevertheless, thine enemy is in thine hands; and if thou rewardest him according to his works thou art justified; if he has sought thy life, and thy life is endangered by him, thine enemy is in thine hands and thou art justified. 32 behold, this is the law I gave unto my servant Nephi, and thy fathers, Joseph, and Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham, and all mine ancient prophets and apostles.
Comment by Anonymous — 5-7-2008, 12:07:16 PM
Interesting story. Thanks for the post.
I would like to know if perhaps hate crimes like this are happening against, for example Jews, but go unreported. Perhaps that is why we don't know about them.
Webmaster: Unfortunately, I think many different ethnicities are the victims of hate crimes. I wish I could say that this kind of problem is limited to Mormon victims alone.
Comment by TrevorM — 5-7-2008, 07:03:41 PM
