Today in the Bloggernacle – Mormon Times


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Today in the Bloggernacle
Mormon Times, UT
Also, check out these abstracts from the first-ever Mormon engineering conference held at the Claremont Graduate University just last weekend: "Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision." Cool! Mormon leadership: While I don't ...

First Mormon stake organized in Trinidad & Tobago – Mormon Times


Mormon Times

First Mormon stake organized in Trinidad & Tobago
Mormon Times, UT
By Mark Beck Thirty-two years after the first missionaries arrived in Trinidad and Tobago, the church organized its first stake in the south Caribbean nation March 1. Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Presidency of the Seventy presided over the ...

Freeman of Speech: Science convention ditches La. for ‘Mormon country’ – LSU The Reveille


Freeman of Speech: Science convention ditches La. for ‘Mormon country’
LSU The Reveille, LA
Instead, a product of anti-scientific religious orthodoxy inadvertently caused the snubbing of New Orleans in favor of Mormon country. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology moved its 2011 annual meeting from New Orleans to Salt Lake City, ...
Science group ditches Louisiana for Utah Beliefnet.com
Scientists boycott Louisiana because of law Tennessee Journalist
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No membership needed: Utah bars to open to public – The Associated Press


No membership needed: Utah bars to open to public
The Associated Press
Utah, with a government historically dominated by Mormon church members, is the only state in the country with such a law. Under the agreement approved unanimously late Monday by the state Senate, bars could open their doors to the public July 1. ...
No membership needed: Utah bars to open to public Boston Herald
Members only? Not for long / Lawmakers agree to dump private club ... StandardNet
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Robert Shrum – The Week Magazine


Boston Globe

Robert Shrum
The Week Magazine
The most egregious McCain reach for the cheap and the demagogic was his cute denunciation of a million dollar appropriation for “Mormon critic control in Utah,” which he ridiculed as possibly “a game played by the brits.” (In twitter-land, presumably ...
The progressive case for the line-item veto. Slate
The paradox of Harry Reid's position Los Angeles Times
Omnibus Bill Delay: Is It Really A 'Major Embarrassment'? TPMDC
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'Big Love' episode draws criticism from LDS Church – Salt Lake Tribune


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'Big Love' episode draws criticism from LDS Church
Salt Lake Tribune, United States
According to a TV Guide interview with series creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer published in this week's magazine, both said the episode will include the depiction of an endowment ceremony within a Mormon temple. Only LDS members with a temple ...
"Big Love" Series to Show Rites from LDS Temples ABC 4
'Big Love' prompts LDS Church response and analysis Mormon Times
'Big Love' episode likely to ruffle LDS feathers KSL-TV
Deseret News - Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Ltd
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Mormon Murder Trial Jury Still Deliberating – Phoenix New Times


Mormon Murder Trial Jury Still Deliberating
Phoenix New Times, AZ
With devout Mormon Faylene's written blessing, Grant married his ex-lover soon after his wife died in the family bathtub. We won't go into further details of the case again in this update. You can read them in our two-part series published last year ...