Tag Archives: LDS

Mitt Romney: I Can’t Release Tax Returns Because It’s Against My Religion

“Our church doesn’t publish how much people have given. This is done entirely privately. One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that this is now all public, but we had never intended our contributions to be known. It’s a very personal thing between ourselves and our commitment to our God and to our church.” – Mitt Romney, …

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Headline Of The Day

Tithing, farms, ranches, shopping malls, and theme parks. The LDS also owns $35B in property around the world. Source.

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Business Week On The LDS

An excerpt: It’s perhaps unsurprising that Mormonism, an indigenous American religion, would also adopt the country’s secular faith in money. What is remarkable is how varied the church’s business interests are and that so little is known about its financial interests. Although a former Mormon bishop is about to receive the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, and despite a recent public-relations …

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Mormon Allies March In Salt Lake Pride

Hundreds of straight Mormon allies marched yesterday in Salt Lake City’s gay pride parade. Before the drag queens in heels danced across Main Street, more than 300 members of the LDS Church left Utah Gay Pride Parade spectators in tears Sunday morning. One Mormon father turned to the crowd and thanked people for forgiving him. The group, Mormons Building Bridges, …

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Mr. Deity Learns About Mormons

There are three different heavens. The good one is like the Nordstrom of heavens. The other two: Wal-Mart and Big Lots.

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Just Baptized, Again

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American Family Association: The False Faith Of Mormons Threatens America

“[Mormonism] is not a Christian faith. It is, as Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas says, a false religion. So it’s kind of a striking things and I know it concerns a number of spiritual leaders, and I count myself among them, is what this would mean for the spiritual health of the United States of America is …

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Is Prop 8 Behind Romney’s Tax Secrecy?

If so, that would only give him cred with the Not-Romneys. According to ABC News, Romney gave millions to the Mormon Church right about then. Newly uncovered stock contributions made during Romney’s Bain days suggest there is another dimension to Romney’s support for the church — one that could involve millions more than has been previously disclosed. As part of …

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MINNESOTA: Mormon Church Issues Letter Urging Marriage “Defense”

Minnesota’s Mormons were read a letter at church services this weekend in which they were urged to take part in the coming ballot campaign against same-sex marriage. Via Q Salt Lake: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints read a letter to all Minnesota wards on Sunday, Jan. 15 reminding church-goers that “the family is the fundamental unit of …

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Coalition Of Religious Leaders Issues Letter Denouncing Gay Marriage: “Help! The Gov’t Won’t Pay Us To Oppress You!”

From a letter issued today by the heads of the Salvation Army, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Hispanic Christian Conference, the Lutheran Missouri Synod, the Mormon Church, the Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (Plus other lesser-known religious hate groups.) By a single stroke, every law where rights depend on marital status—such as …

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Bryan Fischer: The First Amendment Does Not Apply To Mormons

As I noted several posts down, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, is scheduled to share the stage with Bryan Fischer at the FRC’s Values Voter Summit in two weeks. People for the American Way have asked Romney and the other GOP presidential candidates to denounce Fischer before they appear at the conference. This clip may speed a response from Romney, at …

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Utah GOP Rep Proposes Bills To Exclude Gay Families From All Public Programs

Using language that echoes words found in Mormon documents, Utah state Rep. LaVar Christensen has filed two bills may exclude gay families from all publicly funded programs and laws. Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, filed a bill Wednesday, HB270, that would reiterate the state’s policy that marriage is between a man and a woman and require that publicly funded programs, laws …

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DOMA AMICUS BRIEFS: Who’s Who In
Vile Anti-Gay American Hate Groups

GLAD has posted a round-up of the anti-gay groups who have filed DOMA amicus briefs in their case, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. Agudath Israel of AmericaAmerican College of Pediatricians [FAKE]Attorneys General of SC, UT, IN, MI, COConcerned Women for AmericaCongressman Lamar SmithEagle ForumFamily Research CouncilFoundation for Moral LawRobert GeorgeGeorge GovermanLiberty CounselMassachusetts Family InstituteNARTHNational Legal FoundationNational Organization for MarriagePacific …

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HRC’s Fred Sainz On Mormon Church’s So-Called Change Towards Gays

Much noise is being made about the Mormon Church’s so-called softer position on homosexuality. HRC’s Fred Sainz went on MSNBC to talk about it, but Pride In Utah, who has read the new Mormon Handbook, says don’t believe the hype.

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HRC Delivers 150K Petitions To LDS

Clip description via YouTube vlogger Dave Evans: National gay rights activists on Tuesday delivered a petition letter carrying 150,000 signatures to the Mormon church following an address given by President Boyd K. Packer, a Church Apostle. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay civil rights organization, collected the signatures after an e-mail alert to members and supporters 20 percent …

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Wal-Mart Selling Anti-Gay Kids’ Book

Q Salt Lake reports that over 100 Wal-Mart stores are carrying the anti-gay children’s book written by the wife of the president the Mormon anti-gay group Standard Of Liberty. Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today’s Stampeding Sexuality by Janice Barrett Graham was written to “help shed the clear light of truth on today’s dark and tangled ideas …

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UTAH: Thousands Protest Anti-Gay Remarks By LDS Leader Boyd Packer

Thousands of protesters gathered in Salt Lake City’s Temple Square last night to denounce remarks by LDS Apostle Boyd Packer, who called gay people “impure and unnatural.” Packer’s speech, delivered during the LDS Church’s 180th Semiannual General Conference, hit a nerve, protesters say, because it came after a string of gay teen suicides in the national news. Boys as young …

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HomoQuotable – Joe Solmonese

“Words have consequences, particularly when they come from a faith leader. This is exactly the kind of statement that can lead some kids to bully and others to commit suicide. When a faith leader tells gay people that they are a mistake because God would never have made them that way and they don’t deserve love, it sends a very …

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Mormon Leader Rips “Immoral” Gays

So much for that LDS make-over. Same-sex attraction can be overcome and any type of union other than marriage between a man and a woman is morally wrong, an LDS apostle told millions of Mormons on Sunday. “There are those today who not only tolerate but advocate voting to change laws that would legalize immorality, as if a vote would …

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Mormon Church Launches Post-Prop 8 Image Makeover Campaign

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