Free Prison Labor for a 7 Billion Dollar a Year Corporation – The Mormon Church

In a different segment of society outside of “Christianity” this is called pimping and exploitation.  Inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints this is a way to avoid excommunication.

For the last 10 years the Mormons have enlisted prisoners to “volunteer” to index genealogical records.  For their labors they are paid nothing by a 7 billion dollar a year tax-exempt corporation.

Church members who are convicted of a crime face disfellowshipping during which time they must repent or be excommunicated.  Volunteering for the genealogy project would prevent excommunication.  The free labor is looked at favorably when the inmates come up for parole.  Work for the church for free or get denied parole.

Mike Judson, who is in charge of recruiting the data entry volunteers, said the main reason prisoners sign up for the work is the “good feeling that comes from it.”  I assure Mr. Judson that kissing your pompous christian ass to get a bone to throw the parole board does not make a prisoner feel good.  These prisoners are reduced to the lowest common denominator, abused, and forced to live in the hell of prison.  After they are reduced to a non-human status they are required to work for the Mormon Church in order to survive and get released.

Here is the accompanying article.  Come to your own decision.

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Twenty miles outside Salt Lake City, a massive man-made bunker known as The Vault stretches nearly 700 feet into a mountain of granite. Sealed behind colossal doors designed to survive a nuclear attack, the climate-controlled cavern is home to the world’s largest collection of genealogical records—3.5 billion at last count. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been collecting these records since the late 1800s so its members may identify and posthumously baptize ancestors who might then join them in the afterlife. The public isn’t allowed inside The Vault. But many of its holdings, which include everything from US census records to Jamaican marriage certificates, are available for free on the church’s FamilySearchwebsite, which has information on more than 4 billion people.

Before they can be used to track down long-gone relatives, the church’s records first must be indexed so they’re searchable. Even with thousands of volunteers entering information from scanned documents, the church can’t process the data fast enough. “People come and they go,” says Mike Judson, who’s in charge of recruiting data entry volunteers. “They do a little bit here, a little bit there.” So the church has tapped into a more consistent source of labor: prisoners.

For about a decade, the Mormons have enlisted inmates in two Utah prisons to index records, explains Paul Starkey, the church’s manager of indexing operations. Prisoners who get a job scanning government documents earn between $0.60 and $1.75 an hour. Yet those doing genealogical work for the church are considered volunteers and are not paid a dime.

Last year, inmates supervised by missionaries processed 7.5 million archived records.

For Mormon inmates, who make up a third of Utah’s prison population, the Family History Project provides an important link to the church. Church members who are convicted of a crime may be “disfellowshipped” or put on a probationary period during which they must repent or be excommunicated. Volunteering for the genealogy project “would certainly help” prevent excommunication, says Michael Wilder, an ex-Mormon and former High Councilmember.

Non-Mormon inmates have more temporal reasons to volunteer in the prison “family history centers.” Greg Johnson, the administrative coordinator of the Utah Parole Board, says the work may be looked at favorably when inmates come up for parole. In addition, Judson says it helps them develop important research skills like paleography, the deciphering of historical handwriting.

Over the past three years, the indexing project has expanded to 32 prisons and jails across Utah, Idaho, and Arizona. In 2013, inmates supervised by missionaries and using church-supplied computers processed around 2 million records. Last year, they logged 7.5 million. The church is currently exploring expanding the program to prisons in California, Florida, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington.

The church’s  indexing project has expanded to 32 prisons and jails across Utah, Idaho, and Arizona.

Asked whether non-Mormon inmates were informed that their genealogical work might be used to baptize the dead, Judson replies, “I don’t know what they are told, exactly.” When I tried my hand at indexing documents in the Salt Lake City Family History Center, the volunteers stressed that my efforts would contribute to the publicly accessible FamilySearch database. They were cagey when I asked about posthumous baptism. Originally meant to extend the church’s blessings to church members’ deceased ancestors, the practice has also baptized millions of non-Mormons, including Mahatma Gandhi, Elvis Presley, and Adolf Hitler. In 1995, the church promised to stop the controversial practice of posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims. The church states that the practice is not an imposition since “the validity of a baptism for the dead depends on the deceased person accepting it.”

Judson says that Mormon or no, the main reason inmates sign up to digitize old records is the “good feeling that comes from it.” He also recalls asking an inmate why he participated in the program; the inmate replied, “I would have done anything to get out of my cell.”

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Don’t let this program come to Montana.  We are still reeling from Probation and Parole Bureau Chief (former Bishop in the Mormon Church) Ron Alsbury.  This article explains a lot about Alsbury’s thought processes in filling our prisons and jails.  The very last thing Montana prisoners need is to kiss a pompous christian ass to get their freedom and records from the State of Montana.

 

The Mormon Church – Adolf Hitler over children of same sex marriage

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints issued church doctrine concerning children of same sex marriage.

Children with grubby hands seeking out the most beautiful dandelions to pluck and smelling of sunshine and dirt (anyone that has children knows the smell) present these treasures to the people that love them the most, their moms and dads.  Children with childhood dreams of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.  Children learning of the world around them, why is the sky blue and why is the grass green.  These are beautiful children of God, exuding innocence and excitement of growing into adulthood and becoming what nature intended them to be.  These very tiny people are denied baptism and membership in the church.

Compare this with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints throwing open their sacred temple doors and endowing their sacred rites upon one of the most hated men in the world, Adolf Hitler.  The Mormon Church, denying innocent children, baptized and endowed the highest temple rites upon the man that would take these very children and incarcerate, torture and murder them in unspeakable atrocious acts.  Yes, Adolf Hitler (I’m yelling here).

Adolf Hitler   Put your cursor on Hitler’s name then left click on Hitler’s name to access these sacred endowment records. The Mormon Church has long held these records do not exist.  Here they are for your viewing. Endowment in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a sacred ceremony designed to prepare the person to become a king, queen, priest or priestess in the afterlife.  According to this sacred record Adolf Hitler was endowed and sealed for time and all eternity to Eva Braun.  She can now ride his filthy coattails to Celestial Glory.

Celestial glory for Adolf Hitler.  Exclusion, denial and everlasting judgment on innocent children because they love their moms and dads.  This is so messed up.  What are you thinking leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

I guess I have crossed over to apostasy.  Have at it church, someone has to speak up.  When they came for me there was no one left.