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Evangelicals Will Rally for Romney

Ken Blackwell | Posted 05.09.2012

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In a matchup between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, it's an easy choice for conservatives like both of us to fully endorse Governor Romney in this year's election.

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Promises Made In Secret

Samuel Brown | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Secrecy, John Sweeney, Mormons, Mormonism, Temple, Bbc, Lds, Lds Church, Religion News

In general terms, secrecy can suggest bad motives or suppressed scandal, but we must simultaneously recognize that there are times and places where respectful silence is still appropriate.

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Holocaust Victim Baptisms Cause Mormon Leaders To Issue Stern Warning

AP | By BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 03.03.2012

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SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon church leaders say the church's policy of not performing posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims and others unrelated to its...

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Priests and Porn Addiction - A Full Scale Farce

Bethany St. James | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Pornography, Internet, Lds, Religion, Mormon, Sex, Salt Lake City Tribune, Addiction, Peggy Fletcher Stack, Priest, Culture News

Sex was around far before pornography was. Before the cyber age, I'm sure priests, rabbis and clergy from all religious affiliations were aware it existed. It didn't take porn sites and web cams to bring it to their attention.

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Pastor: Romney In A 'Cult,' Don't Vote For Him

AP | By KASIE HUNT | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The pastor who introduced Texas Gov. Rick Perry at a conservative gathering Friday said rival presidential candidate Mitt Romney is not ...

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Why There Are Mormons On Your Billboards

Katie Hawkes | Posted 11.20.2011

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Billboards, radio ads and TV commercials are about to get a little religious. The truth is, there are many misconceptions about my religion.

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Racism and the Church: Do We Demand Change?

Lynette Roberson | Posted 11.17.2011

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A friend recently asked, "How could you be a member of a racist church?" After I explained the Church's teaching, I asked my own question: why don't we challenge racism in all faiths?

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Mormon Leaders Told To Stay Out Of Politics

Posted 08.30.2011

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By Lee Davidson SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Mormon officials are telling their top, full-time leaders that they and their spouses shoul...

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HuffPost Religion Round-Up June 19-26

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 08.25.2011

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Gay Pride, Mormons, Buddhists, circumcision, music, slavery and evolution. It has been a busy week on HuffPost Religion.

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Finally: An Honest Evangelical Weighs In on Romney and the Mormon Question

Mark Joseph | Posted 08.05.2011

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If the base of the GOP are not going to vote for a Mormon under any circumstances, even willing to turn to the other party's candidate, Mormons like Romney deserve to know the truth.

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'A Hotbed Of Malcontents, Free-Thinkers And Doubters'

Holly Welker | Posted 06.15.2011

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Sunstone began in 1974 as a magazine exploring "Mormon experience, scholarship, issues and art." For nearly 40 years, it's been a major forum for independent Mormon thought.

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The Donald Ducks the Hard Question

Mark Steinberg | Posted 06.12.2011

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Trump may have a problem of his own. Exhaustive research conducted over the past several days reveals there is no credible evidence that Trump was born on this planet.

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Mitt Romney's South Park Primary

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Romney's vulnerability on the signature Republican issue -- he's the godfather of Obamacare! -- has his staffers tearing their hair out. But there's another issue that could well steal center stage: religion.

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Should The Mormon Church Compare Itself To Wal-Mart?

Holly Welker | Posted 05.25.2011

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I doubt very strongly that comparing the leadership of the LDS church to the leadership of Wal-Mart will help the image of the church -- not among members, and certainly not among those outside it.

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As Sisters in Zion: Mormon Feminism and Sisterhood

patheos.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Twenty years ago at BYU I took a class I'll never forget: English 352, Contemporary Literary Criticism. Each week a different group of students gave a...

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Official Mormon "Handbook" Made Public

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY -- For Mormons, or anyone else who might be wondering, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-...

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Dialogue Leads to Breakthrough in Relations Between Jews, LDS

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 05.25.2011

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At first blush, one might think that Mormons and Jews have little in common beyond their status as minority faiths in America. But over the past few y...

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LDS Elder Marlin Jensen's Prop 8 'Apology': We Need Clarification

Holly Welker | Posted 05.25.2011

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What exactly does this apology mean? To what extent is Jensen empowered to apologize for the church's power structure? Will additional, more explicit, more comprehensive apologies be forthcoming?

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Mormons Catch A Glimpse Of Life In The Big Leagues

Religion News Service | By Peggy Fletcher Stack | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Peggy Fletcher Stack Religion News Service SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Mormons have been making headlines across the nation--from HBO's "Big Love" to Cal...

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Good Works Can't Compensate for Mormon Assault on Others' Civil Rights

Holly Welker | Posted 05.25.2011

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As long as LDS leaders exploit Mormons, their time and their money for tearing down the civil rights of others, the fact that Mormons act like compassionate Christians in important ways won't fix the church's bad image.

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The Mormon Image: Do Good Individuals Equal A Good Church?

Holly Welker | Posted 05.26.2011

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People think badly of the Mormon church not because they don't like its members, but because they don't like its policies, practices and teachings.

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Boy Scouts Of Americas' Portland President Blames Negligent Parents For Sex Abuse

AP | WILLIAM McCALL | Posted 05.25.2011

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PORTLAND, Ore. — The president of the Boy Scouts council for the Portland metro area has testified he believes the parents of some Scouts were n...

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Shawn Merriman, Denver Ponzi Scheme Perpetrater, Pleads Guilty

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — A former stockbroker accused of running a $21 million Ponzi scheme from his suburban Denver home for 15 years has pleaded guilty to fel...

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Salt Lake City OKs Gay Rights Laws With Mormon Church's Support

AP | JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 05.25.2011

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unani...

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Women's Rights, Rape and Religion

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011

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For our Afghanistan sisters escaping from a domineering marriage can mean possible death without punishment for the husband since the government recognizes Islamic law as the law of the land.

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