A church president was asked a direct question about core Mormon doctrine — and answered like it didn't exist. There's a name for that pattern, and it goes back to Joseph Smith himself.
Jess and Hannah trace "Lying for the Lord" from Joseph Smith's 1835 denial of polygamy to Gordon B. Hinckley's 1997 TIME interview dodging a direct doctrinal question — with the King Follett Discourse, the Lorenzo Snow couplet, and three Gospel Topics Essays (polygamy, Race and the Priesthood, First Vision accounts) laid out as the paper trail. They also cover "milk before meat" missionary training and the 1993 excommunication of historian D. Michael Quinn. The pattern repeats: deny, control the narrative, publish the essay decades later.
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