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Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs Extradited to Texas

(Dec. 1) -- Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamist sect, appeared in court in Texas today on charges of bigamy and sexual assault, ending the legal battle over extraditing him from Utah. Jeffs, 54, appeared for a 15-minute arraignment in a Tom Green County District Court this morning. He was shown a copy of the...

Is Glenn Beck Attempting to Fulfill the Mormon 'White Horse Prophecy'?

(Oct. 5) -- Is a prophecy known to few outside of the Mormon faith motivating Glenn Beck's crusade against President Barack Obama's administration? That's Washington reporter Dana Milbank's conclusion. In an article published Tuesday at The Huffington Post, Milbank details the history of Joseph Smith's so-called "White...

After a Dissent, Mormon Leaders Reaffirm Stance Against Gay Marriage

(Oct. 4) -- Last month, a senior leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for the Mormon church's involvement in California's campaign in favor of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlaws gay marriage. "On the morning of Sunday, September 19, about ninety members of the Oakland,...

Evangelist Bill Keller: Glenn Beck and Gandhi 'Going to Hell'

NEW YORK (Sept. 5) -- During the the inaugural worship service of a proposed "9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" on Sunday, evangelist minister Bill Keller slammed Islam and Mormonism as "lies from Satan." At the same time, Keller maintained that his project was not in opposition to the proposed construction of an...

Beck vs. Obama: Whose Version of Christianity Is More Mainstream?

(Sept. 2) -- God is on whose side? Today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs responded to criticism made by television talk show host Glenn Beck, who alleges that President Barack Obama believes in tenets of liberation theology, a social justice movement started in Latin America's Catholic churches in the 1960s in...

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06/02/12 Editorial: Polygamy policy Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT The Utah County Attorney's Office may have raised eyebrows when it declared in a court filing that it would not, as a matter of policy, prosecute polygamists under the state bigamy law unless some form of abuse, violence or fraud were involved.
06/02/12 Romney's religion 'not a litmus test' say Mormons Source: Canoe The first time a Mormon ran for president nearly 170 years ago, he was assassinated.
06/01/12 Rare Book of Mormon missing from Arizona store Source: FOX News A first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon that draws hundreds of missionaries to an Arizona bookstore has gone missing.
06/01/12 Rare copy of Book of Mormon reported stolen from... Source: Wyoming Public Radio - Univ. of Wyoming - Laramie WY Police searched on Friday for clues to the suspected theft of a rare, first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon, valued at $100,000, that was reported stolen from a suburban Phoenix bookstore over the Memorial Day weekend.
06/01/12 âThe Book of Mormon: A Biographyâ by Paul C.... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC Outsiders may be skeptical of a holy book written on gold plates unearthed in an Upstate New York field by a migrant farmer almost 200 years ago, but the Book of Mormon is here to stay.