BASIS - LDS Class Action

LDS Class Action

1. The Mormon Church (MC) makes certain doctored factual claims as to the character of the founder and his visions and of the canonized scriptures that the founder purported to have translated from ancient texts. These claims have induced - and continue to induce - unsuspecting people to join the MC.
2. The MC by inserting in its website (LDS.org), the Gospel Topic Essays (GTE) that uncover its true, salacious history, has effectively admitted that the doctored claims it has made in the past and is currently making overtly in church meetings and through its missionary discussions to millions of people around the world are made knowing they are falsehoods.
3. Furthermore, the MC has conspired to defraud its members and the general public when its historian, Steven E. Snow, stated that the MC will not direct the general membership to the GTE nor will the GTE be discussed in local meetings or general conferences, but that the MC will continue to promote the doctored and sanitized claims of its history in local meetings and in missionary discussions.
4. That in reliance on such doctored claims people were, and are, induced to make material contributions to the MC in terms of money and time;
and
5. That psychological tactics - typically used by cults - are employed to deceive or, if needed, coerce contributors not to question the sanitized claims, or punish them if they do.