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15 Sep 2021, 12:11 pm by Ryan J. Farrick
The Hartford and Mormon Church will collectively contribute more than $1 billion to a victims' fund. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 12:32 pm
The trial of Warren Jeffs has brought international attention to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a breakaway sect of the Mormon Church with about 10,000 followers. [read post]
17 Aug 2016, 4:18 am by Family Law
From the Wall Street Journal: For 50 years, the scattered singles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe’s north have gathered most summers for Festinord. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 6:11 am by Jason
Robinson’s case is interesting because she has an original 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon, one of the main works of scripture for the LDS Church. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 1:32 pm by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 413 (MA App., April 3, 2012), a Massachusetts appeals court dismissed a suit alleging negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress brought against the Mormon Church and certain volunteer clergy and mission presidents by a victim of childhood sexual abuse. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 8:13 pm
As my British barrister colleague Neil Addison, writing in his Religious Law Blog (linked at the right, under "Juricannon"), reminds us, the unfettered power of the U.S. government can even extend to seizing and forfeiting the property of churches that advocate religious principles that violate federal law:In the 19th Century when the Mormon Church practiced polygamy the US Congress passed a series of increasingly draconian anti-Mormon acts culminating… [read post]
14 Jul 2007, 9:04 am
Johnson Jr. alleges in an Oregon lawsuit that he was repeatedly sexually molested by a Mormon home teacher in the late 1980s, and is seeking $45 million in punitive damages. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 2:17 pm by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
— there's a question that I take as a rhetorical question meant to accuse Reid of inconsistency: By the way Harry, I imagine you were up front in making sure the Mormon Church didn’t build some sort of Memorial at the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, because that would be, y’know, offensive to the memories of the victims for the same reasons? [read post]
25 Nov 2007, 10:11 pm
Oman, Jurisprudence and the Problem of Church Doctrine, (Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2006).From SmartCILP:Don Ellinghausen, Jr. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 12:10 am
Reid, a Senator from Nevada and himself a Mormon, said he thought it was a waste of Church resources and good will for the LDS Church to focus on such a divisive issue. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 10:49 am by Godwhacker
So what if the Mormon Church considered all black people damned until 1978? [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 3:18 am
She says:If it were almost any other church, a missionary past would most likely be an asset for a presidential candidate.... [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 5:58 am
”The essay on “plural marriage” in the early days of the Mormon movement in Ohio and Illinois says polygamy was commanded by God, revealed to Smith and accepted by him and his followers only very reluctantly. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 7:56 am
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been stung by one of their own. [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 2:40 pm by John Culhane
He told me that some in the Mormon church had serious concerns about the decision to support and fund Proposition 8. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 2:20 am by Paul Caron
Bloomberg: Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations, by Jesse Drucker: In 1997, Congress cracked down on a popular tax shelter that allowed rich people to take advantage of the exempt status of charities without actually giving away much money. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 11:03 am by Tom Smith
The rest of the world got another strange and fascinating glimpse into the secret lives of Warren Jeffs' sect of polygamist Mormons this week. [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 9:23 am
Here's the abstract: A number of American religious denominations - Quakers, Baptists, Mormons, and others - have tried with varying degrees of success to opt out of the secular legal system, resolving civil litigation between church members in church courts. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 12:59 pm by Nonprofit Blogger
So Wednesday, David Nielson, the whistleblower who sent a complaint to the IRS about the Mormon church's tax-exempt investment arm a handful of years ago, sent a revised and significantly polished update to the Senate Finance Committee. [read post]