“I believe the church
strives mightily to perpetuate the myth, the
fable, the fantasy, that President Benson, if not operating on all
cylinders, at least is functioning effectively enough to still be
regarded as the ‘living, functioning prophet.’”
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Steve Benson, Ezra Taft Benson’s Grandson and
Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, as quoted in The Mormon
Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, p. 91