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Churchwide News
| LDS Attorney's Fight Against Adoption Rights Law Ends In Defeat |
| Nineteen months after an Oregon adoption rights law
known as Measure 58 was passed, the US Supreme Court eliminated the last
obstacle to the law Tuesday. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor refused to continue
a hold on the law requested by LDS attorney Franklin Hunsaker of Portland
who represented six anonymous birth mothers opposed to the law. |
| LDS Social Services' Psychologists in Tucson |
| The Arizona Daily Star looked at the employment of
licensed psychologists by churches in Tucson in an article yesterday.
Included in the article is the fact that the LDS Church has two LDS
Social Services counselors covering the 16,000 Tucson area members of
the Church. Just two other congregations in Tucson have licensed
counsellors. |
| Brigham Young's Birthday Recognized |
| The New York Times included the birth of Brigham Young on this date in 1801 as one of the significant events of this day in
history. Young was born in Whitingham, Vermont, and trained to become a
carpenter before he read the Book of Mormon and joined the followers of
Joseph Smith. |
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