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| With McVeigh Execution Approaching, LDS Church Remains Neutral on Death Penalty |
| As the execution date for Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh approaches, the Utah state parole
board must make a similar decision - whether to put inmate Elroy
Tillman to death or whether to allow him to live. According to some
religious leaders and church members, that's not necessarily a choice
the state should make. Other religious organizations, including the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, maintain a hands-off
attitude toward the death penalty, taking the position that the death
penalty is solely a matter of law. |
| LDS Seminaries in Middle of Church-in-School Debate |
| An article in yesterday's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
reviews the current place of religion in the public schools and in the
process looks at an LDS Seminary Class. Like a multitude of religious
activities that are sometimes found in high schools, the LDS Seminary
program sometimes finds itself squarely in the middle of the debate, which
often pits conservatives and liberals in the US against each other on school
boards and in legislatures, but almost always gets decided in the courts as
foes cite conflicting principles of the US Constitution's first amendment. |
| Mormon Police Union Official in Political Fight with Oceanside Mayor |
| The head of the Oceanside Police Officers
Association, the union representing police officers in the town, took on
Mayor Terry Johnson Friday, disputing his claims that the union is racist,
and saying that his own, Mormon, ancestors were discriminated against like
Mayor Johnson's African-American ancestors. Chris McDonough spoke to the
Catfish Club, the same group that heard Johnson's claim that the police were
racists. |
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