Лерой С. Джонсон

Лерой С. Джонсон
Лерой С. Джонсон
	Во время рейда Short Creek , 1953
Старший член Совета священства ( Сообщество Short Creek )
	1954-25 ноября 1986 г.
Предшественник	Оспаривается: возможно: ; Джозеф Уайт -Муссер ; Чарльз сиденье
Преемник	Оспаривается: возможно: ; Рулон Джеффс ; Дж. Марион Хаммон
Личные данные
Рожденный	Лерой Сандерленд Джонсон ; 12 июня 1888 г. ; Ли Ферри , Аризона, США
Умер	25 ноября 1986 г. (в возрасте 98 лет) ; Хилдейл, Юта , США
Супруга (ы)	Не менее 15
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Лерой Сандерленд Джонсон (12 июня 1888 г. - 25 ноября 1986 г.), известный как дядя Рой , ^{[ 4 ]}^{[ 5 ]} был лидером мормонской фундаменталистской группы в Шорт-Крик , которая впоследствии превратилась в фундаменталистскую церковь Иисуса Христа Святых последних дней (церковь ФЛД), с середины 1950-х годов до его смерти.

Биография

Джонсон родился 12 июня 1888 года на пароме Ли , штат Аризона , у Уоррена Маршалла Джонсона, первого поколения в Церкви Иисуса Христа Святых Святых (Церковь СПД) и одной из его жен, Мермели Смит Джонсон. ^{[ 6 ]} Джонсон был крещен в церковь СПД в возрасте восьми лет, вскоре после того, как 1890 году в был выпущен манифест в 1890 году , отказавшись от должности во множественном числе . ^{[ 7 ]} Его отец, прочитав манифест, обратился к «кому это может касаться», просто заявил, что это не касается его. Джонсон не согласился с манифестом, очень откровенно рассказав о своей веге в « небесного закона » даже до того, как узнал о формальном фундаменталистском движении в мормонизме . ^{[ 8 ]} Его приговоры были укреплены после того, как он отправился в Шорт -Крик , занимаясь границей Юты -Аризоны, где была объединена выдающаяся полигамная община, и знакомился с такими лидерами движений, как Джон У. Вулли , Джозеф Уайт Миссер и Джон Я. Барлоу . ^{[ 9 ]}

Johnson and his wife Josephine Ford Johnson were excommunicated from the LDS Church in 1935 along with most of the rest of the Short Creek Community after they refused to sign an affidavit abandoning their belief in plural marriage. Then, Johnson chose to officially join the "Woolley group" of fundamentalists, the spiritual predecessor to the modern Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), and was eventually ordained an apostle by John Y. Barlow and became one of the group's Council of the Priesthood.^[10]^[11]

Johnson became a leader of the polygamous movement after Barlow's death in 1949. He did not initially consider his group a distinct organization from the Salt Lake-based LDS Church, describing it simply as "the Fundamentalist division of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints," but by 1952, he openly remarked that he and his followers "have separated ourselves from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it now stands."^[12]^[13] Despite being plagued by incidents such as the 1953 Short Creek raid, Johnson's thirty-two-year tenure as senior member of the Priesthood Council has been characterized as "a time of stability, growth, financial success, and greater public acceptance."^[14]

While Johnson is today recognized as a prophet of the FLDS Church, he only implicitly referred to his own prophetic status: "You have heard other men call me a prophet, but you have never heard me make the claim."^[15] The non-LDS Mormon prophet Robert Crossfield delivered a revelation^[16] to Johnson calling him to repentance, but Johnson rejected it.

While acting as Prophet, Johnson dismissed J. Marion Hammon and Alma A. Timpson from the Council of Friends for their opposition to the "One Man Doctrine".^[1] Hammon and Timpson went on to form the Centennial Park group (or "Second Ward") of polygamists just south of Colorado City.

Following Johnson's death in Hildale, Utah, and burial at the Isaac W. Carling Memorial Park on November 25, 1986, Rulon Jeffs succeeded him as leader of the FLDS Church. Although Johnson had been very ill and unable to mingle among the people for several years, his passing created a "climate of upheaval" within the community, during which the church became increasingly authoritarian.^[17] The numbers of apostates gradually increased, spiking in the early 21st century, with the turmoil accompanying the imprisonment of Jeffs's son, church president Warren Jeffs, on two counts of child sexual assault.

In recent years, Johnson's tenure as Prophet has become a focal point for Mormon fundamentalists disaffected with the modern FLDS Church. For instance, one of Warren Jeffs's brothers noted that Uncle Roy was a "warm, loving" prophet who "taught polygamy for the right reasons," but Jeffs "has no love for the people."^[18]

Johnson's birthday was celebrated as a holiday within the FLDS Church until the practice was discontinued by Warren Jeffs in 2003.^[19]^[20]

Notes

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Hales, Brian C. "Leroy S. Johnson". MormonFundamentalism.com. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
^ "Polygamist 'Uncle Roy' Johnson". The Montreal Gazette. 27 November 1986.
^ "Photos of Leroy Johnson". MormonFundamentalism.com. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
^ Krakauer (2003, p. 33) ("Until 1986 ... the prophet was LeRoy Johnson, a plainspoken farmer known to his followers as 'Uncle Roy.'")
^ Brown, Jan, ed. (2007). "I Grew up in a Polygamist Family". Today's Christian Woman. Retrieved 2022-03-07. When I was a child, the Prophet was Leroy Johnson. We called him Uncle Roy.
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 4:1223.
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 2:693.
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 3:1159 ("I tried for some years before I became acquainted with President Barlow or President John W. Woolley to get into the principle of plural marriage, because I had it in my heart".)
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 6:346.
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 6:343.
^ Baer (1988, p. 38).
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 4:1635.
^ Johnson (1983–1984), 5:28.
^ Driggs, Ken (Summer 1990). "Fundamentalist Attitudes toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson" (PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 23 (2): 39–60. doi:10.2307/45228077. JSTOR 45228077. S2CID 254393431.
^ Bistline (2004, p. 102)
^ http://www.2bc.info/pdf/Colorado%20City.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ Krakauer (2003, pp. 38–39) ("Uncle Roy ... was by then ninety-three years old, very ill, and fast fading into senility .... In 1986 Uncle Roy died, and Rulon Jeffs became the UEP's new prophet. In the climate of upheaval that followed, there was turmoil in both Bountiful and Colorado City.")
^ Krakauer (2003, p. 263)
^ Wall & Pulitzer (2009, p. 260) ("Warren announced that this year we would not be celebrating Uncle Roy's birthday. Though Uncle Roy had begun this tradition himself, and it had been carried on for years, Warren declared that the event was not what Uncle Roy would have wanted.")
^ Jeffs (2010, p. 206) ("Warren had already begun cracking down on the people of Short Creek: canceling the 2003 celebration of Leroy Johnson's birthday in June and the Pioneer Day Parade in July, which commemorates the date that Mormons first settled in the Salt Lake Valley.")

References

Baer, Hans A. (1988). Recreating Utopia in the Desert: A Sectarian Challenge to Modern Mormonism. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780887066818. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
Bistline, Benjamin G. (2004). The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona. Agreka Books. ISBN 9781888106749.
Jeffs, Brent W. (2010). Lost Boy: The True Story of One Man's Exile from a Polygamist Cult and His Brave Journey to Reclaim His Life. Broadway Books. ISBN 9780767931786.
Johnson, Leroy S. (1983–1984). The L. S. Johnson Sermons, 7 vols. Hildale, Utah: Twin Cities Courier.
Krakauer, Jon (2003). Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9781400078998.
Wall, Elissa; Pulitzer, Lisa (2009). Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061752841.

External links

"President Leroy S. Johnson". Official website of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

Mormon fundamentalist titles
Preceded by Joseph White Musser as Senior Member of the Priesthood Council (Short Creek Community)	Senior Member of the Priesthood Council 1954 – November 25, 1986	Succeeded by Rulon T. Jeffs as Prophet and President of the FLDS Church
Предшествует Charles Zitting в качестве старшего члена Совета священства (непризнанный)		Преуспевает J. Marion Hammon as Head of the Centennial Park group

[Hales-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Hales, Brian C. "Leroy S. Johnson". MormonFundamentalism.com. Retrieved 4 June 2019.

[2] "Polygamist 'Uncle Roy' Johnson". The Montreal Gazette. 27 November 1986.

[3] "Photos of Leroy Johnson". MormonFundamentalism.com. Retrieved 4 June 2019.

[4] Krakauer (2003, p. 33) ("Until 1986 ... the prophet was LeRoy Johnson, a plainspoken farmer known to his followers as 'Uncle Roy.'")

[5] Brown, Jan, ed. (2007). "I Grew up in a Polygamist Family". Today's Christian Woman. Retrieved 2022-03-07. When I was a child, the Prophet was Leroy Johnson. We called him Uncle Roy.

[6] Johnson (1983–1984), 4:1223.

[7] Johnson (1983–1984), 2:693.

[8] Johnson (1983–1984), 3:1159 ("I tried for some years before I became acquainted with President Barlow or President John W. Woolley to get into the principle of plural marriage, because I had it in my heart".)

[9] Johnson (1983–1984), 6:346.

[10] Johnson (1983–1984), 6:343.

[11] Baer (1988, p. 38).

[12] Johnson (1983–1984), 4:1635.

[13] Johnson (1983–1984), 5:28.

[14] Driggs, Ken (Summer 1990). "Fundamentalist Attitudes toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson" (PDF). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 23 (2): 39–60. doi:10.2307/45228077. JSTOR 45228077. S2CID 254393431.

[15] Bistline (2004, p. 102)

[16] ttp://www.2bc.info/pdf/Colorado%20City.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[17] Krakauer (2003, pp. 38–39) ("Uncle Roy ... was by then ninety-three years old, very ill, and fast fading into senility .... In 1986 Uncle Roy died, and Rulon Jeffs became the UEP's new prophet. In the climate of upheaval that followed, there was turmoil in both Bountiful and Colorado City.")

[18] Krakauer (2003, p. 263)

[19] Wall & Pulitzer (2009, p. 260) ("Warren announced that this year we would not be celebrating Uncle Roy's birthday. Though Uncle Roy had begun this tradition himself, and it had been carried on for years, Warren declared that the event was not what Uncle Roy would have wanted.")

[20] Jeffs (2010, p. 206) ("Warren had already begun cracking down on the people of Short Creek: canceling the 2003 celebration of Leroy Johnson's birthday in June and the Pioneer Day Parade in July, which commemorates the date that Mormons first settled in the Salt Lake Valley.")

[21] [] Мормонские лидеры до начала фундаменталистского движения и признаны большинством фундаменталистов законными церковными лидерами.

[22] [b] Мормонские лидеры, которые внесли изменения в церковную политику в отношении множественного брака; Признание легитимности лидерства зависит от фундаменталистской группы.

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