Stargazing | Kelly Clarkson, Eriq La Salle, ‘Big Love,’ Jay Leno ... Kansas City Star, MO “Big Love,” HBO’s drama about a polygamist, has angered the LDS church with its Sunday episode that depicts a private and sacred endowment ceremony within a Mormon temple. An LDS statement earlier this week said the show assured the church it wouldn’t ... |
Stargazing | Kelly Clarkson, Eriq La Salle, ‘Big Love,’ Jay Leno … – Kansas City Star
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Mormons upset at HBO filming of rite – Arizona Republic
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 E! Online | Mormons upset at HBO filming of rite Arizona Republic, AZ 14, 2009 12:00 AM The mainstream Mormon faith had a collective freak-out this week over HBO's plans to show a sacred Mormon temple ceremony on Sunday's episode of "Big Love." However, church members say, viewers hoping to glimpse strange religious ... Kirby: Are ceremonies so sacred, or are Mormons insecure? Will the Fictional Mormons Influence the Real Ones? "Big Love" network apologizes to Mormons |
Talkers: Mormon legislator suggests tax on caffeine – Kansas City Star
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Talkers: Mormon legislator suggests tax on caffeine Kansas City Star, MO SALT LAKE CITY | A conservative Mormon state lawmaker said that if Utah wanted to raise its tax on tobacco, then it might as well raise taxes on such addictive substances as caffeine, too. Rep. Craig Frank has requested that lawmakers study the ... |
Churches in the news – Deseret News
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Churches in the news Deseret News, UT The Krishna Temple, 8628 S. State, Spanish Fork, will celebrate the Festival of Holi on Saturday, March 28, beginning at 4 pm The Association for Mormon Letters and Irreantum Magazine is accepting entries for the 2009 Irreantum Fiction Contest and ... |
No End in Sight to Juror Deliberations in the Mormon Murder Trial – Phoenix New Times
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No End in Sight to Juror Deliberations in the Mormon Murder Trial Phoenix New Times, AZ By Paul Rubin in News The 12-person jury in the Doug Grant Mormon murder case has gone home for the weekend, and it appears that members are nowhere close to reaching a verdict. The best indication of that is a "deliberation schedule" the panel sent ... |
Updated 3/13: Mormon temple in Glenview back in business – Pioneer Press Online
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 Langley AdvanceNews | Updated 3/13: Mormon temple in Glenview back in business Pioneer Press Online, IL Virtually no one in Glenview had known it was closed, except Mormon church members and the firefighters who respectfully kept out of the temple's sacred areas when summoned by an alarm around 4 am Dec. 24. If fire personnel "hadn't gotten there as ... Temple spire rises |
Tobacco tax? Then tax caffeine too, lawmaker says – The Associated Press
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 WTHI | Tobacco tax? Then tax caffeine too, lawmaker says The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A conservative Mormon state lawmaker says that if Utah wants to raise its tax on tobacco then it might as well raise taxes on such addictive substances as caffeine too. Rep. Craig Frank has requested that lawmakers study the ... Utah Lawmaker Sees Tax Revenues in Caffeine Addiction Utah's drop in tax revenue biggest in nation Umm, Let's See, What Else Can We Tax? |
Book explores varied roles of Mormon women – Salt Lake Tribune
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Book explores varied roles of Mormon women Salt Lake Tribune, United States By Lisa Carricaburu But read their stories, told in the new book Mormon Women: Portraits and Conversations (Handcart Press, $15.95), and these women will teach you things you may not have known about, well, Mormon women. Kent Miles and the late James ... |