original_query: What were the reasons for opposition towards the Latter Day Saints in the mid-1840s?
query: What were the reasons for opposition towards the Latter Day Saints in the mid-1840s?
answer: In the mid-1840s, opposition towards Latter Day Saints stemmed from suspicions of Mormon bloc-voting leading to theocracy, growing Mormon political power, commercial rivalries, and the difficulty non-Mormons had accepting the Latter Day Saints' different perspective on God and their claim to modern revelation and new scripture.