The explosive news coverage of the polygamist sect in Texas, where male members consummated their marriages with minor children in the basement of their temple, can now be better understood in my new article, The Mormon Temple Ceremony, which has just been posted to my website at www.janishutchinson.com. (Click on, What”‘s New?)
Besides giving a blow-by-blow description of the First Endowment temple ceremony that most Mormons participate in, including blood oaths they are required to take, in the second half of the article I reveal the mysterious and secretive Second Endowment ceremony called the “Second Anointing” (also referred to as the ceremony that makes one”‘s Calling and Election Sure). Not many Mormons know about it, and it is this latter one that I believe the FLDS Church was practicing in their temple”‘s basement.
This ceremony is conducted in the temple”‘s Holy of Holies, and only a privileged few can participate in by special invitation. Since most fundamentalist groups, more especially the FLDS Church, try to incorporate into their practice everything that Joseph Smith taught, it is obvious to me that in the consummation of their plural marriages with those children, they were practicing this Second Anointing ceremony. Check the article out.
Janis Hutchinson
