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The Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America were named as defendants in lawsuits Monday claiming childhood sexual abuse by youth leaders decades ago.
Three brothers who claim they were sexually molested by their Boy Scout and Mormon youth leader in the 1970s and 1980s have sued both organizations.
It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard.
The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.
The latest installment of a calendar series that pokes fun at Mormon stereotypes is putting a twist on motherhood.
The anti-Mormon backlash after California voters overturned gay marriage last fall is similar to the intimidation of Southern blacks during the civil rights movement, a high-ranking Mormon said Tuesday.
A group of current and former Mormons at odds with the church's position on gay marriage and its political activism to ban it has launched a Web site asking the faith to soften its stance.
California officials will investigate whether the Mormon church accurately described its role in a campaign to ban gay marriage in the state.
A California gay rights activist filed a complaint Thursday accusing the Mormon church of failing to report the full value of the work it did to support the state's new ban on same-sex marriage.
Supporters of gay marriage, frustrated over a ballot-box defeat in California, have channeled much of their anger toward the towering white spires of Mormon temples.
Gay-rights activists see opportunities for their cause in Utah thanks to Mormon church officials, who strongly supported California's proposition denying same-sex couples the right to marry but said they did not object to granting those couples certain other rights.
Brigham Young University has yanked the diploma of a man who created a calendar featuring shirtless Mormon missionaries and was later excommunicated from the church.
A group of Mormons who support gay marriage delivered protest letters and bundles of carnations to church headquarters Friday in an appeal to end the church's support of a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California.
Mormons are being asked by their church leaders to step up their already considerable efforts to pass a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California.
Prompted by their church's support for a California initiative to ban gay marriage, some Mormons are voicing opposition to the proposed ban on the Internet — saying in cyberspace what they might not be able to express in church buildings.
The creator of a calendar that featured shirtless Mormon missionaries was excommunicated Sunday after a disciplinary meeting with local church leaders in Las Vegas.
As authorities have investigated a polygamist sect in Texas, Mormon church leaders in Salt Lake City have largely stayed on the sidelines, weighing a response.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is asking California members to join the effort to amend that state's constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Thirty years have passed, but Heber G. Wolsey still cries when he recalls the day the Mormon church abandoned a policy that had kept black men out of the priesthood.
The death of Mormon church President Gordon B. Hinckley renews attention on Mitt Romney's little-known religion — yet rather than being reluctant to discuss it, he's making a public embrace that shows some shifting political attitudes.
In the days after Mormon Church president and prophet Gordon B. Hinckley is laid to rest, the men who served as his closest advisers will begin the process of choosing a successor.
If leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hold with tradition, the next president of the church will be a soft-spoken World War II veteran with a love for telling stories.
To Don Lounsbury, it's just another chapter in the same old story — his church is being maligned, misrepresented and misunderstood — only this time it's happening as part of the campaign for the White House.
Mitt Romney has benefited from the financial support of his fellow Mormons as he runs for president, and he hasn't shied from returning the favor as he conducts the business of his campaign.
Beck Defends Founding Fathers' Decision To Count African-Americans As Three-Fifths Of A Person On his radio show today, an African-American caller questioned Glenn Beck's deification of the Founding Fathers by bringing up the fact that the Constitution "didn't even recognize my people as even human." The caller was referring to the three-fifths clause — a provis …
The Mormon-Evangelical DivideA declaration intended as the defining statement of conservative Christian principle in the post-2008 political landscape – endorsed by over 150 people over a period of a month – found room for not a single Mormon signatory.
Mormon Muffins: Too Sexy?A controversy is heating up among Mormons over a pinup calendar that toys with one of their core spiritual values: modesty.
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanIt appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.
The Price of Prop 8...Violence is Not the Answer !... When Hatred goes out-of-control... From Both Sides of the Street. And the Main ingredient in the Soup is Religion & Money & Hatred.
Is LDS Church taking a step back on gay issues? - Salt Lake TribuneLDS general authority Bruce C.
Glenn Beck Loves Judaism to Pieces! -- Politics DailyPoor Glenn Beck. The pitchfork pundit from Fox News is used to getting into trouble for talking about what he hates. But now he's even getting hammered for what he loves -- in this case, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
The man who changed Glenn Beck's life. Thanks....In reality, however, the so-called 912ers were summoned to D.C. by the man who changed Beck's life, and that helps explain why the movement is not the nonpartisan lovefest that Beck first sold on air with his trademark tears.
Mormon church to release second Smith papers book - KSWT: Local News, Weather, Sports Yuma, AZ El Centro Imperial Valley, CA |The series is said to be the most comprehensive collection of Joseph Smith's writings. The manuscripts are of Smith's revelations that shaped the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life excerpt; ""What has Beck been pushing on his legions? "Leap," first published in 1981, is a heavily illustrated and factually challenged attempt to explain American history through an unspoken lens of Mormon theology.
Video: Glenn Beck's newest unfounded claim that the 2008 election was all part of a coupEventually Glenn Beck has to run out of extremist statements but right now he seems to be able to generate absurd quotes at will. The newest claim by Beck is that the 2008 election was all part of a grand coup by Barack Obama.
The Catholic Church helped preserve Roman civilization. Can Mormonism do the same for America?When America disappears 100 or 500 or 1,000 years from now, it will be gone but not forgotten. As the world's leading military, economic, and cultural power since World War II, the United States will linger in the global gene pool and influence whatever comes next.
Marriage opponents in Maine have the signatures for a referendum to repeal the state's new mariage equality lawExcerpt: ""The opponents of marriage equality in Maine are claiming they've got the signatures to put a referendum repealing the new law on the ballot in November: The group that wants to repeal Maine's new gay marriage law with a referendum vote says it has gathered enough sig …
O'Reilly vehemently insists 'God and Country' rally 'wasn't about religion' -- but organizers say it wasexcerpt: ""O'Reilly: But to diminish spirituality by denying the good folks in Idaho a flyover is simply stupid. There is no specific religion in play at that festival. This is another example of secularists being disrespectful to people of faith.
North Korea threatens foreign ChristiansWOW, it's amazing how fearful North Korea and the violent vs. the non-violent Middle East Muslims and the ACLU are of the word Jesus and the Judeo-Christian Bible. the Cross, and Christian prayers as they all continue to attack non-stop.
I've heard it time and time again. "Obama is a Muslim, and he's trying to turn us into a Muslim Nation". So I ask you.
Twitter profile hack pwns MormonsMicroblogging Mormons are up in arms after the Twitter account of the Church of Latter Day Saints was hijacked by pranksters.
OK, so maybe it sounds like a bad SNL sketch. But founders of Feminist Mormon Housewives are serious in their aims, to take women's issues seriously. And whether you're a housewife, a Mormon or just a feminist, you'll likely find something interesting here.
The Church and Gay Marriage: Are Mormons Misunderstood? Even as Mormons have become more prominent, they have struggled to overcome lingering prejudices and misrepresentations about the sources of their beliefs. Polls suggest that up to half of Americans would be uncomfortable with a Mormon President.
When White-Collar Hubbies Go To JailMost people read about articles such as this one, but this story appears as if these stories are becoming common-place in America after we became a material world, but this brave lady moves on after turning to a HIgher Power and describes how she has been able to survive a crisis …
Mountain Meadows group wants more tests on skull - Salt Lake TribuneIdaho scientist isn't certain that a skull found in the Mountain Meadows area in Utah is one of the victims of the infamous massacre by Mormons of settlers traveling to California in the 1800s.
"The Mormons are coming! The Mormons are coming!": the same-sex wars move onAs more states take up the debate on same-sex marriage, some advocates of legalization are taking a very specific lesson from California, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dominated both fundraising and door-knocking to pass a ballot initiative that barred su …
Washington Post Places Photo Caption Of Gay Marriage Alongside Story Of Mormon Church Burning DownThe only way this picture would be appropriate with this story is if the gays pictured burned the church down.
On 5th anniversary of legal gay marriage in Massachusetts, fire breaks out and engulfs Mormon church in Cambridge, MA during morning meetingA fire broke out this morning during a meeting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints outside Harvard Square in Cambridge, sending members spilling out onto the street.
Salt Lake City Liberals and Gay MarriageWhat's the matter with Utah? The most Republican state in the nation is drifting to the left. In the last few months, Gov.
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