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| Stop Allowing Hunting on LDS Land, Requests National Animal Rights Group |
| A New York City-based animal rights group
has asked the LDS Church to stop allowing the hunting of animals on
its land. The Fund for Animals, which seeks to stop cruelty to
animals, including hunting, sent a letter to President Gordon B.
Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on
October 11th asking that the sponsored hunts on the Deseret Ranch in
Florida, the Deseret Land and Livestock preserve, and Westlake Farm
in Utah be stopped. LDS Church spokesman Dale Bills would not
immediately comment on the letter. |
| U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Proselyting Registration Case |
| Can a town require that missionaries going
door-to-door have permits? The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to
hear arguments on that issue in a case from Stratton, Ohio, which
passed an ordinance requiring those going door-to-door to register
with the village. But the Jehovah's Witnesses challenged the
ordinance, claiming it violated the U.S. Constitution. |
| Columnist Criticizes Welfare, Government Payments to Polygamists |
| Knight Ridder columnist Susan Mazur traveled
to Utah to look at polygamy during the recent trial of polygamist Tom
Green, and discovered that polygamy in Utah is subsidized by
government handouts. After reviewing the status of polygamy in the
Western U.S., Mazur observes that nearly $3 million in federal, state
and local grants have gone to the town of Colorado City, Arizona
since 1987 and concludes that "it is unconscionable that in the name
of freedom America declares war on the Taliban in Afghanistan while
it continues to state-sponsor the polygamist enslavement of our own
women and children." |
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