“The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when LDS church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.”

D. Michael Quinn, Faithful History – Chapter 6 “On Being a Mormon Historian” (Salt Lake City, UT: signature Books, April 1992), 91. BLUE text is UNVERIFIED.