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| General News |
| Teen Girls Fleeing Polygamous FLDS Church While Green Children Seek Leniency for Father |
| An associated press article appearing in
newspapers around the nation today tells the story of a 15-year-old
girl who has walked away from the largest polygamous group, the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the
same time that a Reuters article reports that polygamist Tom Green's
wife and children are pleading for his return to the family ahead of
his sentencing Friday. Caroline Cooke says she now feels free living
on her uncle's Colorado farm, and the anti-polygamy groups supporting
her are calling for a 14-year-old, Ruby Jessop, to be released by the
Hilldale, Utah-based FLDS Church because she is being held against
her will. |
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| First Sunstone Placed on Nauvoo Temple |
| The Nauvoo Temple started to look a more like the
original Nauvoo Temple on Monday when the first Sunstone was put into
place on the outside of the building. The stones, carved to look like
the original stones, cap limestone pilasters around the outside of
the building. Moonstones and starstones will also be featured on the
pilasters, which look like columns embedded into the side of the
building. |
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| Local News |
| Unknown Tenant Brings LDS Church Trouble in Harlem |
| A tenant that The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints didn't even know it had could make the Church's bid
to build a four-congregation chapel in Harlem the focal point of
local fears over gentrification. Long a symbol for the inner-city
Black community, Harlem is facing an influx of whites and rising real
estate prices that are driving out poor blacks. Now the LDS Church
has discovered that it must relocate a poor black tenant in order to
proceed with construction of the chapel, and local leaders are
calling the situation, "a test of how the church treats a black man
in Harlem today." |
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| Environmentalists Gain Support from Harrison NY Temple Dispute |
| A nearly dormant group of environmentalists have
gained new steam because of the dispute over the proposed Harrison New York
Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The
privately-funded Purchase Environmental Protection Association, first formed
88 years ago, now has its first paid employee and about 100 members. The
group says it will look at the Church's planned Temple. |
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| Sports |
| Two LDS Golfers Seeking US Amateur Championship, Records |
| Two LDS golfers are among the eight that made the
quarterfinal round of the US Amateur Championship yesterday, and both are
seeking to set records by winning the championship. Utah golfer Danny
Summerhays is just three wins away from passing Tiger Woods as the youngest
US Amateur Champion, while Oregon's Jeff Quinney would become only the
fourth man to repeat as champion in the last 50 years, and the first since
Tiger Woods' three-peat in 1994-1996. |
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| LDS Punter Starting at U Washington As Freshman |
| Many young men preparing to serve a mission for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints go off to college for a year or
two before leaving for their mission. Some of them even make it to college
as student-athletes. Some of them even get to play in a few games during
"garbage time." However, few young LDS men play any substantial role in
major college athletics prior to serving their missions and many of them
never make it as athletes after they return. Enter Derek McLaughlin, a
freshman from Mesa, Ariz., currently playing big-time football at the
University of Washington. |
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| Politics |
| LDS Church Quiet on Pocatello Gay Pride Event |
| As Pocatello, Idaho hosted a three-day Gay Pride event,
local LDS leaders were quiet and Michael Purdy, spokesman for The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, declined to comment specifically on the
event, held this past weekend. The relatively quiet reaction of much of the
city even led the event's leaders to call the predominantly-Mormon city
"tolerant." But a vocal minority, led by a local church, Calvary Chapel,
criticized the city's support as validating the gay lifestyle. |
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| Will Utah send 'WW' to Washington? |
| Election year 2000 was when the letter "W" took on
new meaning in the nation's vocabulary to distinguish then-candidate George
W. Bush from his presidential father. If one current US House candidate from
Salt Lake City has his way, 2002 will be the year when a double dose of that
letter of the alphabet will be elected to go to Washington representing Utah. |
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| Arts & Entertainment |
| Noted Mormon Author and Intellectual Eugene England Dead |
| Mormon author and intellecutal G. Eugene England, died Friday
at his home in Provo, Utah at about 10:30 am after a six-month struggle with
brain cancer. His family has released the following obituary. Mormon News
plans its own obituary later this week. |
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| Remembering England |
| Tomorrow hundreds of people are expected at the Provo
Tabernacle to remember one of Mormonism's best known and most
influential authors and intellectuals. G. Eugene England was widely
known in spite of the fact that he never held Church-wide office. But
he did start two of Mormonism's most enduring independent
institutions and was heavily involved in another. He pushed for and
encouraged the study of Mormon literature and Mormonism during a
career of more than 20 years at BYU, and most recently founded the
only center for the study of Mormonism. But six months ago, England
was hit by a devastating case of brain cancer, to which he finally
succumbed last Friday. |
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| Business |
| Saginaw, Michigan LDS Farm Considering Appeal of Judge's Water Ruling |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
Walther &Sons Farms are considering an appeal against a recent court ruling
by Saginaw County Circuit Judge William A. Crane's decision on Tuesday that
ordered them to each pay $4,000 to the 22 families living within a half-mile
of either farms that are without well water. Lawyers for both western
Saginaw County corporate farms deny any connection between their water use
for agricultural irrigation and the residents water woes and called court's
action "inappropriate." |
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