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Originally Posted by Archaea
You're becoming Aaron Shaf, friend.
This is the type of effort you should encourage, not deride. I look forward to reading to determine if it is unduly biased, but my sister has met personally with the authors, and was impressed with the honesty and true contrition.
In fact, it was a meeting in Arkansas, where descendants of the Fanchers met with each the female author. Her initial meeting was not extremely friendly with some, but she broke down and cried, apologized profusely and proceeded to disabuse some of the misstatements originally promulgated by Church members about the Fanchers. Fences have begun to be mended now as in her speaking tours, members from that family attend and speak frankly about their experiences and feelings.
The author also mentioned they had unfettered access to all available records and left no stone unturned to describe in painstaking detail what happened. You may feel free to disagree, but in this event, your skepticism appears to be misplaced.
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The authors are on the LDS Church payroll, and I'm like Aaron Schaf for questioning the impartiality, given the history? How about this: They give independent researchers unrestrained access to their documents, like the Vatican does. I'd rather that than have LDS employees write the book.