ROBERT KIRBY

Reader J.B. sent along a link to this column by Robert Kirby from the Salt Lake City Tribune.

There was even a time when that's all the federal government needed to know about Mormons in order to systematically strip us of the right to vote and own property.

The point of controversy back then was marriage. Specifically, what kind of marriage was moral enough to be sanctioned by a government? Turns out that it was one guy and one woman, and not one guy and a bunch of women like we thought.

Polygamy was declared barbarous by no less than the U.S. Supreme Court, which ironically once also declared slavery to be legal. Oh, we're a fine bunch when driven by moral outrage.