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   Brigham Young

   Brigham Young University was named in his honor. ... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt.
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   Brigham Young University

   BYU and Harvard University are tied at 79 percent for the highest percentage of accepted applicants that go on to enroll. ... Brigham young University.
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   Mormon pioneers

   For his role in the migration, Brigham Young is sometimes referred to as the "American Moses." ... In April 1847, Young consulted with members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who had recently returned from the British mission.
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   Lucy Mack Smith

   Brigham Young made it the formal conferring of a title by saying: "All who consider Mother Smith as a mother in Israel, signify by saying 'yes.'
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   Blacks and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

   Critics say that lifting the restriction before the resurrection is contrary to Young's 1854 and 1859 statements, while church apologists say that Brigham Young's statements meant that Africans could receive the priesthood after all other races were eligible to receive it, not all other individuals. ... The reasons turn out to be man-made to a great extent.
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   Blood atonement

   In the Salt Lake valley, Young acted as the executive authority while the Council of Fifty acted as a legislature. ... It has been suggested that the ritualistic elements involved in the execution of Coleman’s murder may have been in response to a public sermon made three years earlier by Brigham Young on March 3, 1863.
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   History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

   Instead, Congress created the much smaller Utah Territory in 1850, and Young was appointed governor in 1851. ... The Church also officially announced its opposition to political measures that "confer legal status on any other sexual relationship" than a "man and a woman lawfully wedded as husband and wife."
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   Fancher party's and Mormons' backgrounds and the Mountain Meadows massacre

   The religion had undergone a period of intense persecution in the American midwest, and faithful Mormons made solemn oaths to pray for vengeance upon those who killed the "prophets" including founder Joseph Smith, Jr. and most recently apostle Parley P. Pratt, who was murdered in April 1857 in Arkansas. ... Fillmore, Millard (September 26 1850), "I nominate Brigham Young, of Utah, as governor of the Territory of Utah", in McCook, Anson G., Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, 8, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1887, pp. 252
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   Thomas L. Kane

   Six months later, he defended Brigham Young in the eastern newspapers. ... In turn, Young consulted Kane as an attorney on dealing with federal charges pending against him.
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    Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    The church also officially announced its opposition to political measures that "confer legal status on any other sexual relationship" than a "man and a woman lawfully wedded as husband and wife." ... In order to attend Brigham Young University, students must abide by the Brigham Young University Honor Code, which was recently reworded after several students, including gay and lesbian students, thought that the previous wording was confusing and unclear.

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• History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
• Fancher party's and Mormons' backgrounds and the Mountain Meadows massacre,
• Thomas L. Kane,
• Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints