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Mormon Church to accept gay boy scouts
James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay, as Will and other supporters carry petitions to end the ban on gay scouts and leaders in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Dallas, Texas. (Tony Gutierrez/AP) For the Boy… …
Mormon church launches website about ‘same-sex attraction’
The Mormon church has created a website asking followers to have compassion for people with “same-sex attraction,” reported AZCentral. The website features videos of church leaders, Mormons who “are attracted to people of the same sex,” and family members and friends of those individuals. “Family members with same-sex attraction need…
Bloomberg News: Romney ‘rented’ Mormon church’s exemption to defer taxes for 15 years
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used a loophole to “rent” the Mormon church’s tax exemption status and defer paying taxes for 15 years, according to a new report. Tax returns obtained by Bloomberg News through a Freedom of Information Act request indicated that Romney set up a charitable remainder unitrust…
Atheist group attacks Romney’s Mormon faith with ‘shame’ billboard
The group American Atheists have purchased a billboard to highlight controversial aspects of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religious faith. The mobile billboard in Boca Raton, Florida states: “No Blacks Allowed (until 1978). No Gays Allowed. Shame on Mormonism.” The billboard will follow Romney for several days after Monday’s final…
Mormons for Marriage Equality ‘taken aback’ by church elder’s criticism of same sex parenting
Mormons for Marriage Equality was surprised to hear Elder Dallin H. Oaks condemn same sex parenting during the 182nd Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Just three weeks ago, Dallin, who is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, appeared to support…
Mormon church threatens to excommunicate member who criticized Romney
A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints says that church leadership is on a witch hunt against him after he criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. David Twede, a fifth-generation Mormon, told The Daily Beast that on Sunday his bishop and three other church leaders…
Maher to Romney: Giving to your ‘ridiculous church’ doesn’t count as charity
Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher went after presumptive Republican nominee Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s assertion that he gives millions away every year in charity. Giving the standard tithe to the Mormon church, in Maher’s opinion, somehow doesn’t have quite the same altruistic heft as…
Elie Wiesel calls out Romney on Mormon church’s proxy baptisms
Elie Wiesel, the renowed Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is requesting that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney urge the Mormon church to abandon the practice of posthumous baptisms of non-Mormons. In an interview with The Huffington Post Tuesday, Wiesel addressed the issue after learning that his own name…
Mormon Church admits spending more than 100 times the amount to pimp Prop 8 than it reported
Bearing false witness is no problem for these folks. That or they have a serious deficit in math sklls. (365gay): Six weeks into an investigation by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, the Church of Latter-Day Saints has admitted that it spent nearly $188,000 more on the campaign to approve Proposition…
Prop 8 protests going strong
Thousands of people protesting Prop 8 are filling the streets and disrupting traffic during rush hour. Here is a link to live coverage of protests going on right now in Westwood (above). Journalist Karen Ocamb was at the protests today and shares photos. From earlier in the day: Protesters line…
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