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		<title>Mormon gays tread lightly in latest bid for acceptance</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21714/gay-mormons</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Mormon church still teaches that gay sex is a sin and actively opposes gay marriage—which it will do from pulpits across California this Sunday—a first-ever meeting between Mormon officials and members of an advocacy group for non-straight Mormons, might suggest that such acceptance is more than wishful thinking.]]></description>
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		<title>LDS Church stressing its differences from FLDS polygamous sect</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21706/lds-flds-mormon-sect</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FLDS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Polygamy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Sai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fundamentalist mormons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LDS]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[mormon fundamentalists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21706/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/mormonism.jpg" alt="Mormon Church" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> Mormon leaders today said they are stepping up efforts to make the public aware of the differences between the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), which has recently garnered widespread national attention.<br /><br />Then we fill in the details the LDS leaves out.]]></description>
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		<title>Watchdog Web Site Goes After the Mormon and Scientology Churches</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21663/watchdog-web-site-goes-after-the-mormon-and-scientology-churches</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21663/watchdog-web-site-goes-after-the-mormon-and-scientology-churches#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anti-psychiatry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Church of Scientology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cult]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks.org — a watchdog Web site that leaks corporate and government documents — hasn't officially launched, yet it has already uncovered human rights violations in China, claimed to have swayed Kenya's elections and exposed the inner workings of Guantanamo Bay.<br /><br />

So many were surprised when it recently turned its sights on two lawyer-heavy religious groups: the Mormons and the Scientologists.]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons dedicate a fifth temple in Brazil</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21609/mormon-temple-brazil</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The LDS Church now boasts more members abroad than in the U.S., where the church has its origins. About 55 percent of the world's 13 million Mormons live outside the U.S., according to church figures.]]></description>
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		<title>LDS says Wikileaks web site violated its policy handbook copyrights</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21457/lds-mormon-church-handbook-instructions</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21457/lds-mormon-church-handbook-instructions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 09:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Church Handbook of Instructions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Wikileaks will not remove the handbooks [the Church Handbook of Instructions is a two-volume set], which are of substantial interest to current and former Mormons," according to a Wikinews article. "Wikileaks will remain a place where people from around the world can safely reveal the truth."]]></description>
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		<title>Another Scientology-like Web war? Mormon Church documents put online</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21434/mormon-church-handbook-of-instructions</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21434/mormon-church-handbook-of-instructions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks has posted a confidential document from the Church of Latter-day Saints called the Church Handbook of Instructions, which is a guide for the church's lay leadership and is not available either to parishioners or to the public.]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican trying to avoid baptism by proxy</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21388/vatican-trying-to-avoid-baptism-by-proxy</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21388/vatican-trying-to-avoid-baptism-by-proxy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[baptism for the death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Roman Catholic Church has recently directed dioceses worldwide not to give parish information to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The move is to prevent LDS Church members from baptizing by proxy Catholic ancestors. ]]></description>
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		<title>Modern-day Mormons disavow polygamy</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21225/mormon-polygamy</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21225/mormon-polygamy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mormonism/Mormon Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the LDS Church's repeated efforts to distance itself from the polygamy-practicing Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, many Americans have trouble distinguishing the two.]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons feel torn over FLDS raid</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21169/flds-70</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21169/flds-70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FLDS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["As the FLDS are, we once were," says Guy Murray, a lawyer in Southern California who has been blogging daily in defense of the FLDS community's civil rights. "Back then, we were the ones in the compound. We've all seen the photos of our brethren who went to prison rather than give up their wives."]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons see teaching moment in raid on fundamentalist Texas sect</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21146/mormonism-flds</link>
		<comments>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21146/mormonism-flds#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mormons are upset about the fact that people confuse its many splinter groups with mainstrain Mormonism, or that people think Mormons still practice polygamy (which it founder stated was "the most holy and important doctrine ever revealed to man on earth").]]></description>
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