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Mormon production 'This is Kirtland'

glad and respect the mormon heritage...places i have visited palymyra and Nauvoo need to always be maintained because they are a very special place. So my question is does the church justify the digging up the dead such as the Anasazi? Is there a cultural conflict if for example ..according to the laying on of hands concept if the priesthood holder was giving a blessing on one hand vs. digging up the dead which is (taboo in the Native culture )then giving a blessing to the Native person? Seems to me , you can't have it both ways and i wonder what the church authorities think since the controversy of catholic statues in colorado brought such an outcry..then why not this case which is being handled also by a Native American church member Larry Echo Hawk.Some where I recall the sermon on integrity ..doesn't state it is what we do alone when no one is around.

someone tell me how the L.D.S.church lost the kirkland temple??

To Can:

When the Church moved from Kirkland to Ohio many of the members just left the property in Ohio to who ever came next. When the RLDS Church formed it bought the rights to the Kirkland Temple ground. Unfortunately, they had no knowledge of what occurred or happened there and have basically disregarded many of the revelations that took place there. It is just a matter of time before the Church buys back that property.

Following the assassination of JSmith in 1844 rival leaders and factions vied for control of the temple. In 1845, the Kirtland Latter Day Saints under the leadership of S. B. Stoddard, Leonard Rich and Jacob Bump organized their own Mormon church in opposition to Brigham Young, James J. Strang and other leaders. This group later merged with a faction led by William E. M'Lellin whose president was David Whitmer, another of the Three Witnesses.
By 1848, another Latter Day Saint faction led by Hazen Aldrich and James Collin Brewster was organized in Kirtland and maintained control of the temple. This faction also dissolved and most of the members who were in Kirtland eventually joined the Community of Christ (former RLDS Church) led by Joseph Smith III. In 1860, a probate court in Ohio sold the Kirtland Temple as a means of paying off some debts owned by Joseph Smith, Jr.'s estate. Joseph Smith III and Mark Hill Forscutt purchased a quitclaim deed to the temple in 1874.