it wasn't confusion i was trying to be polite the statement critics point to the fact that one year after the church received the revelation that polygamy was prohibited utah again applied for statehood and the request was accepted was not factual see my post above as the enabling bill wasn't passed by congress until four years after the manifesto the statement could at least have clarified what is meant by the request was accepted i'm not sure about hawaii but i looked into it and alaska's enabling bill was passed in and eisenhower signed the official declaration in early january it seems like a lot of statehood elevations were drawn out political battles eisenhower didn't want a democrat leaning alaska to wipe out his slim republican majority