Episode 384: Mormonism Part V - King of Beaver Island
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The Paranoid Struggle in Brigham Young
The Mormon battalion is still the only US military unit to ever exist based solely on religion. President Polk actually figured that the Mormons would be a good advanced team for the Oregon territory. The Brigham Young did not want to do this, but he erroneously believed that President Polk had 3,000 Missouri militiamen just over the border ready to wipe out the last of the Mormons if Brigham Young refused to contribute men. He began punishing and expelling sinners because he hoped to arrive at the Mormon's permanent home with a purified church.
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