 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Ex-LDS Church teacher may face excommunication
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A former employee of the LDS Church Education System is facing
possible excommunication for a book he wrote questioning details
about the origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Grant Palmer, who was employed by the church for 34 years and
served as an LDS Institute director in Los Angeles, northern
California and at the Utah State Prison before retiring, is scheduled
for a church disciplinary council with leaders of his LDS stake on
Sunday. The news was announced i...
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; ... disciplinary council with leaders of his LDS stake on Sunday. The news was announced in a press release issued this week by Signature ... Insider's View of Mormon Origins." Palmer told the Deseret Morning News he was aware that a press release had been issued by Signature ...
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LDS Church addresses FLDS confusion
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LDS Church critical of media reports on FLDS
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; ... Latter-day Saints is criticizing international news media outlets for failing to distinguish ... in 1890. More than a century later, some news reports, especially those outside the U ... its Web site. The LDS Church praised many news media outlets across the country for noting ...
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LDS Church emphasizes 'Mormon' distinctions
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; ... linked to it as part of an onslaught of news coverage of the raid on the Fundamentalist ... their beliefs. Letters were also sent to news media pointing out the differences between ... director Mary Batchelor told the Deseret News Thursday she would let the pro-polygamy ...
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LDS Church won't help spread word on Medicare
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; AARP Utah will continue to work with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on an individual or regional level to inform them about upcoming changes to Medicare benefits, even as the church itself has declined to participate in the association's outreach efforts. The group
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LDS Church to appeal verdict on sex abuse
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; ... to her that she couldn't bring herself to tell her bishop about the abuse. Kosnoff did not return calls to the Deseret Morning News seeking comment Tuesday. In an Associated Press story, he was quoted as saying: "The size of the verdict is particularly newsworthy ...
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Anti-Mormon DVD triggers a strong LDS Church rebuke
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; A recent mass distribution of anti-Mormon DVDs has triggered a strong rebuke from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The DVD, "Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith," is part of a campaign targeting Mormonism that was launched by various Christian organizations on Sunday in the United States and
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Can Protestants accept LDS Church?
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; ... a number of leading Mormon political figures. Last year, Haddow protested with calls to friends on Capitol Hill after reading news reports that members of the LDS Church weren't permitted to speak at National Prayer Day events organized by evangelicals associated ...
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LDS Church is Christian
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; In response to Matthew Myrup's letter (Readers' Forum, Sept. 1) regarding the LDS Church not sharing: The LDS Church wants to share the title of Christian because they are. They do not want other denominations to share the title of Mormon, because they are not. Lois Brown Brigham City
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LDS Church not obstacle
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; I am appalled at the comments made by Judy Shepard, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation: "In Utah I can identify readily what I think is your largest barrier, and that would be the LDS Church." She, of course, backtracked when pressed on the issue. But this is the quiet, embittered
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