The Lafferty's and the Pursuit of God

The Lafferty's were one of a string of fundamentalist murders, and they certainly were a dangerous duel the two brothers. The killings related to the temple ritual of where you had for years in the temple, the oath of swearing on an oath not to fight against the church but so they'll be slit. And so there's a undercurrent of this idea of people being killed for disobeying God. It was a gradual militarizing of Mormonism and becoming more radical. At the start of Mormonism I don't believe Joseph was promoting anything that radical but as they got thrown out of different towns after they had experienced some of these attacks on their own people like the Hansville massacre it pushed them