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Monday November 10, 2008
Church and State • Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
A couple thousand people gathered outside the Capitol in Sacramento this afternoon to rally for the legalization of same-sex marriages just days after voters imposed a constitutional ban. The gathering follows several similar events around the Bay Area and California. Earlier today, more than 400 people gathered outside the distinctive Mormon Temple in Oakland to protest the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‘ support of Proposition 8.
Tuesday October 21, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
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.“When a student applies for graduation, he or she must be in good standing with the university,” BYU spokeswoman Cari Jenkins said.
The BYU letter said Hardy’s degree is on hold because he was not in good honor code standing because of his excommunication. The LDS Church owns and operates BYU.
Monday October 13, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
A father found in contempt for violating a custody agreement that barred him from promoting Mormonism to his two sons lost his appeal at the Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday.Joel Mark Rownak and Lisa Monette Rownak agreed in their 2005 divorce to raise their children “in the Protestant faith.” The decree bars them from promoting another religion without the other’s consent.
Sunday October 5, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson said Saturday the church has plans to build five new temples worldwide, three abroad and two in the United States.The Mormon Church is considered to be, theologically, a cult of Christianity. Its temples, rituals and doctrines are rejected by mainstream Christians.
Due to its attempts to pass off Mormon doctrines and practices as being compatible to — or even representative of — Christianity, the Mormon Church is considered to be, theologically, a cult of Christianity.
Saturday September 27, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
Mormonism’s use of the term ‘Christian’ is false and misleading, in the same way that slapping the term ‘ROLEX’ onto a fake watch is deceptive.Pointing this out has nothing to do with religious hatred or intolerance, but rather with historical and theological accuracy and honesty.
Monday September 15, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
The Cambridge stake center, as the building will be called, will house four Mormon congregations – two of which worship in English, one in Portuguese, and one in Spanish – as well as the headquarters for the Cambridge stake, which is a geographical unit, akin to a diocese, that in this case includes an estimated 4,000 Mormons worshiping in 14 area congregations.Friday September 12, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
On Sept. 11, 1857, Mormon militiamen led the slaughter of 120 men, women and children on wagon train bound for California in an incident known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.For years, Mormon church officials downplayed the role Mormons played in the mass killing.
Now a new book lays the blame largely on Southern Utah church and militia leaders.
Monday July 14, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 
The creator of a calendar that featured shirtless Mormon missionaries was excommunicated Sunday after a disciplinary meeting with local church leaders in Las Vegas. “Men on a Mission,” which has sold nearly 10,000 copies at $14.99 each, included pictures of 12 returned missionaries wearing black slacks, but not their trademark white shirts, in modest poses. The men also were photographed in traditional missionary garb and share their religious beliefs in biographical sketches. [video]
Friday July 11, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church • Polygamy: 
Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, described plural marriage as part of “the most holy and important doctrine ever revealed to man on earth” and taught that a man needed at least three wives to attain the “fullness of exaltation” in the afterlife.He warned that God had explicitly commanded that “all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same … and if ye abide not that covenenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory.”
So why did the Mormons eventually reject polygamy?
Thursday July 10, 2008
FLDS • Mormonism/Mormon Church • Polygamy: The doctrines and practices of Mormon Fundamentalists are closer to those of the original Mormon Church than are the doctrines and practices of today’s Mormon Church.
Fundamentalist Mormons have responded to a less-than-honest PR campaign by the LDS Church.
Fundamentalist Mormons have responded to a less-than-honest PR campaign by the LDS Church.
Monday June 30, 2008
Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • Mormonism/Mormon Church: 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.
Friday June 27, 2008
FLDS • Mormonism/Mormon Church • Polygamy: 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.Then we fill in the details the LDS leaves out.
Monday June 9, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 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.
Monday May 19, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: “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.”
Thursday May 15, 2008
Mormonism/Mormon Church: 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.
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