The copyright law-defying anti-Mormon
“Mormonleaks” website has posted another collection of documents and papers
from the late Elder Bruce R. McConkie, formerly a member of the Quorum of the
Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1972-85).
As with
their first installment, these new papers are again filled with typos. I don’t
know how they are arriving at their final product presentation and reformatting,
whether retyping materials, using OCR software, or some other way, but whatever
it is, they seem to have little interest in presenting a sharp, professional,
typo-less text.
They also
seem to have done little or nothing to research the previous availability of
their pieces. Many of these are available in archives (although I don’t imagine
they would get much cooperation from the Church History Library archives for
their nefarious purposes). Suffice it to say, they are wrong about most of what
they say about these. A brief contextualization and review follows:
