See the Salt Lake City newspaper article here:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4966134

The gist is:

Vern G. Swanson, longtime director of the Springville Museum of Art, knows some readers will think he's crazy. Others will be intrigued, and still others may be offended.
That's because Swanson has written a provocative new book theorizing that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene, that they bore children and that LDS Church founder Joseph Smith was their direct descendant. Swanson also suggests that this heavenly birthright gave Smith spiritual authority as a prophet and affirms the historical legitimacy of the LDS Church.
Titled Dynasty of the Holy Grail: Mormonism's Sacred Bloodline, the book was published in November by Cedar Fort, a Springville-based publisher. The scholarly 540-page tome hasn't yet attracted much attention beyond Utah, but Swanson believes his topic will eventually reach a large audience of Mormons, Holy Grail theorists, and fans of The Da Vinci Code book and movie.

Swanson's theories on Christ's bloodline are not shared by the LDS Church (Note: Today's members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints prefers to be called LDS and not Mormons. Thus, the predominant LDS Church does not agree with Swanson's theories).

"In the mid-1800s, the belief that Christ was married was held by those of many faiths, including some early LDS Church leaders," said church spokesman Dale Bills last week. "However, the belief has never been official church doctrine, nor is it taught as doctrine by the church today."
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Gatofeo notes: I live in Utah. I don't subscribe to any organized religion. I think the above is ridiculous but I'm posting it as a matter of interest.

If you go back far enough, sooner or later everyone is related to everyone else... theoretically speaking, we're all decended from Adam and Eve.

Well that explains the rash in my privates that breaks out at the mere sight of olive leaves. Not to mention the aversion to appley snakes. Or is that snarkey apples?! Ok, I'm confuzuled. Yeah, like that's a first. Today.

there area lot of desperate attempts to keep relgion alive this is jsut one of them i have read alot of books on mormonism and Joesph smith claimed alot of things...lol


there is no proof of jesus historically speaking to begin with..... moromn is relatively a new relgion too the time frame would be off.

A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

You may be.. but I sure ain't. There were civilizations that existed prior to when whoever dreamed up the Adam and Eve story to explain their tribe's beginings...

Well, if it were true, we can't fairly hold Jesus responsible for his ancestors, can we