Mark Hofmann

Mm.

If, if people are real students of, um, Mormon history, they might know that Mark Hoffman in the early 1980s forged a blessing, uh, given by, um, the Joseph Smith to Joseph III.

There's no contemporary document, uh, to that effect.

My own sense is that would've been entirely normal for Joseph to have seen his oldest and namesake son as a prospective successor.

We also examined his homophobic record.

towards LGBTQ plus members, his misleading public statements about polygamy, his role in patriarchal leadership structures like the proclamation on the family and the disastrous handling of the Mark Hoffman forgeries.

Finally, we explore how Hinckley's massive temple building program prioritized prestige and legacy over transparency, charity, and accountability.

Ladies and gentlemen, this video is not, I repeat, not about personal attacks.

Hinckley's failures shaped the faith, finances, and lives of millions, and their consequences are still being felt today.

So here's what we are going to be covering here.

The enzyme peak scam, false claims of transparency, the City Creek Mall, policing culture and media, LGBTQ harm, pardon me, polygamy contradictions, inflated humanitarian claims, patriarchal leadership, the Mark Hoffman scandal, and temple expansion and vanity projects.

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What did you, what did you bring out of your bag of goodies? [laughs] What's-

Well, so all things Hoffman are pretty collectible.

And-

Okay

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some people may not be familiar with this, but back in 1985, um, for about five years Hoffman had been making forgeries.

And then the whole world started caving in and his, his whole ruse was about to be unveiled, and he took the drastic measure of creating pipe bombs and murdering people.

Yeah.

But, um, there's no other account of this.

This shows up on the internet all the time because in the 1880s, there was a guy named Mark Hoffman who wrote a really-

Mm-hmm

... famous forgery called The Salamander Letter.