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News about Mormons, Mormonism, and the LDS Church |
General News |
LDS Church Fighting Judge's Order to Provide Child Abuse Records |
A judge in Multnomah county, Oregon has ordered
the LDS Church to provide her with records of all child sexual abuse
complaints and disciplinary actions in the Portland area over the
past 25 years, and the Church is fighting the order. Judge Ellen F.
Rosenblum issued the order January 24th in the case of Jeremiah
Scott, now 21, who says that he was abused at age 11 by a Church
member that the Church knew was an abuser. The LDS Church plans to
file an appeal of the order with the Oregon Supreme Court. |
Local News |
LDS Family Shattered by Mother's Murder |
The life of an LDS family in Howard County, Maryland
was shattered Sunday when their 25-year-old son murdered his mother and a
friend staying with them. The family says they had sought psychiatric help
for Benjamin Morgan Hawkes at a local hospital last week, but were given an
appointment for evaluation. |
LDS Man Sues INS Claiming Religious Discrimination |
An LDS Immigration and Naturalization Service agent
filed a lawsuit against the agency Wednesday, claiming that supervisors in
the Salt Lake City office discriminated against him and harrassed him
because he is LDS. The claim came nearly two years after R. Kurt Halverson
filed his first complaint against the agency of the US government with the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
Is the University of Utah Anti-Mormon? |
Discrimination against Mormons is an
accusation the University of Utah has heard since it passed from
church control and became a secular university. In the latest round
of complaints, Latter-day Saint student Christina Axson-Flynn claims
she was forced out of the theater program because she refused to take
God's name in vain. Before Axson-Flynn was accepted into the
program, she told teachers she would not use vulgar language. She
feels her constitutional rights have been violated because of
religious discrimination and has taken her case to federal court. |
Sports |
Olympics One Year Countdown Makes CBC Radio |
This week Salt Lake City marked the one year
countdown to the 2002. Winter Olympics with fireworks. It was also
the week two men accused of bribing Olympic officials to win the
games were in court. The bribery scandal has tainted the Games. But
it's not the only controversy dogging the city. The latest is over
religion. |
Politics |
Seattle Area Ban on New Chapels Inconveniences Area Churches |
King County, Washington, the county that includes
Seattle and some of its suburbs, on Monday placed a moratorium on new
building permits for chapels and schools until this coming December,
inconveniencing the LDS Church and other large religions in the area and
surprising local school districts, which had hoped to build in coming
months. But the move is minor compared with the proposal that led to the ban
as a compromise; restricting new chapels to 10,000 square feet or less. |
People |
Reviewer Pans 'The Princess and the Marine' |
Michael Speier, a reviewer for the trade magazine
Variety panned this coming Sunday's "The Princess and the Marine," saying
that while all the elements were there for a great show, the execution "is
all wrong." The film tells the story of Marine Jason Johnson, who is Mormon,
and his successful smuggling of a Bahraini princess into the US from the
Middle East, where he had fallen in love with her. |
Arts & Entertainment |
Maren Ord Releases First Album |
Who knew that when Maren Ord began
composing music at the age of 14, she would one day sing with a major
record company? Ord, 19, and originally from Edmonton, released her debut album
"Waiting" on a limited scale in November with Highway records. |
Business |
Marriott, Bulgari Announce New Hotel Chain |
The Marriott Corporation announced Tuesday that it had
reached an agreement to start a new hotel brand with the Italian luxury
goods maker. The joint venture calls for each company to invest up to $140
million in about a dozen 150 to 200-room Bulgari hotels over the next five
years. The chain will cater to 'movie stars and models' according to one
report. |
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