Moreover, the church has created numerous websites using the word Mormon, such as Mormon.
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Lucky Comes from a Mormon Family He comes from a tight-knit Mormon family.
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Will the Mormon moniker be stripped from the Mormon Channel, the church's multimedia arm?
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"The Rob Porter story typifies everything wrong with Mormon men not believing abused Mormon women," wrote civil rights lawyer Carolyn Homer on the Mormon website By Common Consent.
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Trump had questioned whether Romney, an elder in the Mormon church, was really a Mormon.
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Old Las Vegas Mormon FortOh, you didn't know Las Vegas was settled by Mormon missionaries?
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"You can't scrub 'Mormon' out of Mormon history," said W. Paul Reeve, the group's president.
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Until then I was just a good Mormon kid – my friends knew me as "Mormon Brendon".
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But other polls have also shown McMullin, a Mormon, in striking distance in the heavily Mormon state.
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Romney, who is a Mormon, has close ties to Utah, a state with a majority-Mormon population.
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The Boy Scouts serves about 183,000 Mormon youths, and the Mormon church is one of its largest sponsors.
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He grew up Mormon in a family with close ties to the elite Mormon enclave of Belmont, Mass.
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The area has a large Mormon population, and Jell-O&aposs wholesome family branding aligns with Mormon values.
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Mason, who is Mormon, said he still expected to use the term Mormon, despite the campaign by church leaders.
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Ted Cruz also went after Mormon voters and frequently campaigned with Glenn Beck, a conservative broadcaster and active Mormon.
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"In Mormon culture, three months is a long time to be engaged," Julianne, whose father is Mormon, recently told PEOPLE.
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Meanwhile, Idaho has a sizable Mormon population, which helped Romney -- who is Mormon -- trounce rival Rick Santorum there in 2012.
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Northwestern Mexico has been home to small Mormon and Mormon-linked communities of U.S. origin since the late 19th century.
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Romney, a practicing Mormon, is heavily favored in Utah, a strongly Republican state with a large and influential Mormon population.
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It's sort of normal Mormon stuff — relatively moderate Mormon Republicans like Mitt Romney and Orrin Hatch have spoken respectfully of Skousen — but the church officially rebuked Skousen in 20133, and Carson is, in any case, not Mormon.
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But many of those members are extremely misguided on how their money is spent and how their leaders are compensated, according to Bill Reel, an active Mormon who interviews Mormon scholars and authors on his podcast Mormon Discussions.
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Fellow Mormon Glenn Beck also criticized Bundy's interpretation of scripture during the standoff, claiming genuine Mormon practice must be non-violent:
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He married "a nice Mormon girl," fathered three Mormon children, and took a job as a door-to-door salesman to support them.
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That's the Book of Mormon, which believers say consists of writings produced by ancient American civilizations and complied by a prophet named Mormon.
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Romney, who is Mormon, will stump for McSally in the state's East Valley, which has a large Mormon population, The Arizona Republic reported.
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In the Mormon tradition, only couples who have been married in a Mormon temple are capable of reaching the highest echelons of heaven.
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The Pew Research Center's 2014 Religious Landscape Survey found that 64 percent of those raised in Mormon households still identify as Mormon as adults.
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Many Mormon readers did not think the obituary for Mr. Monson reflected the positive feelings that much of the Mormon community had for him.
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The Bundys' anti-government sentiment is embedded "deep within Mormonism's DNA," said Patrick Mason, a Mormon and professor of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University.
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Mormon doctrine holds that intrafaith marriage -- a union to another Mormon inside the church's temples -- is essential for salvation in the highest level of heaven.
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The Arizona Republic reported that Romney, who is Mormon, will hold a rally on Friday in Arizona's East Valley, which has a sizable Mormon population.
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Edwards, who was active in Mormon Church affairs, served an 18-month Mormon mission to New York City with his wife in 2002 and 2003.
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Though she didn't defy Mormon belief by coming out, she did "threaten" to defy Mormon policy by saying she hopes to fall in love and marry.
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The Mormon former intelligence officer is uniquely positioned to do well in Utah, a largely Mormon state that has not gone to the Democrats since 1964.
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Built by Brigham Young, founder of Salt Lake City and second president of the Mormon church, the Salt Lake Temple is the world's largest Mormon temple.
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SMH Utah is a swing state for the first time in years because of a strong third-party Mormon candidate in the heavily Mormon state, Evan McMullin.
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Hailing from Olympia, Washington, Anderson was raised in a strict Mormon household, "too punk for the Mormons and too Mormon for the punk kids," she told NPR.
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Ranked in order of preference, they were: a happy marriage to a fellow Mormon, an unhappy marriage to a fellow Mormon, or not getting married at all.
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The Mormon Church has been accused of using their sexual abuse hotline to quiet victims and stave off potential lawsuitsMexico massacre unites Mormon sects, even their exiles
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Holderness and Willoughby's stories have prompted a number of Mormon and ex-Mormon women to share stories of their own to BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and other news outlets.
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He was a Mormon for some time as a child while living in Las Vegas, and he still has extended family who are part of the Mormon Church.
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But his comments from earlier this week about religious freedom potentially leading to discrimination and violence and tying it to the Mormon church have infuriated many Mormon voters.
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The groups became so intertwined that one of every five Boy Scouts in the United States is Mormon, and all Mormon boys were expected to participate in scouting.
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"The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has a great tradition of performing at the inaugurals of U. S. presidents," said Ron Jarrett, president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a statement.
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Now nearly two dozen Mormon women tell us when they went to Mormon church leaders after being abused at home, they too were counseled to remain in abusive relationships.
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Split from the mainstream Mormon Church The FLDS, which split from the mainstream Mormon Church over the practice of plural marriage, first settled in Short Creek in the 1930s.
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Because the vast majority of Mormon children are raised in two-parent Mormon households, they are far more likely to receive robust and consistent religious instruction throughout their childhood.
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This documentary follows Mr. Reynolds, a lifelong Mormon, as he puts together the concert with Tyler Glenn, an openly gay former Mormon and the lead singer of Neon Trees.
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" - Petra, 31 "Mormon virgin was afraid of everything.
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McMullin, who is Mormon and from Utah, could potentially siphon away conservative voters in the Mormon-heavy state where Trump was beaten handily by Ted Cruz in the primary contest.
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On today's episode of Daily VICE,we meet Emmett Claren, a transgender Mormon activist trying to raise awareness and acceptance for trans people within the large Mormon community in Utah.
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A decade later, Helen recalled that moment in a sexual abuse-related civil lawsuit she and five other families brought against local Mormon leaders, including Fishel, and the Mormon Church.
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He was one of the peppy Mormon missionaries in "The Book of Mormon," and with his gleaming good looks, fits neatly into the role of the cute but shallow Whizzer.
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A Mormon of my acquaintance, for example, refused to see the musical "The Book of Mormon" because of the language used in it, and I assume she was not alone.
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Nine Americans who are members of a Mormon settlement in the Mexican state of Sonora were violently killed while driving to a wedding in another Mormon community in Mexico on Monday.
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JM: — I was at Book of Mormon dress rehearsal.
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Go to see 'Book of Mormon' ... Netflix and chill.
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" Jeffress has also called the Mormon religion a "cult.
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Mormon leaders fled from Trump after video of him making casual comments about sexual assault and aides hope that those decisions would reverberate into Arizona, where 6% of the population is Mormon.
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On the Republican side, it voted twice, in 2008 and 2012, for Mitt Romney, whose Mormon faith made him a good match for Nevada, with its large and politically engaged Mormon population.
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There are 150 Mormon women for every 13 Mormon men, according to one study, creating a statistical dilemma that complicates church leadership's bold project to ensure all youth attain a temple marriage.
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Mob violence drove early Mormons from their homes in Missouri and Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s, and for decades after, the federal government attempted to restrict Mormon voting rights and halt foreign Mormon converts from immigrating to the US. "The Mormon experience illustrates the harms that result from the government targeting a particular religion," the brief reads.
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Let's be real about this, Christians: if our kids came home with fliers from a Mormon ministry inviting them to create Christmas care packages which would then be packed with copies of the Book of Mormon and delivered to needy children by Mormon missionaries all over the world, would we not cry "separation of church and state"?
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The Mormon Church has rejected assertions made by the leader of an armed militia that he could use Mormon scripture to justify storming and occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon this week.
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Police search for motive in shooting at Nevada Mormon church .
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Employees give the Mormon church a company rating of 24.4.
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I'd lived my whole life in a white Mormon bubble.
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The most famous of which is 'I'm a Mormon Boy.
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At the time the young Mormon also was a virgin.
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Mayne was one of the first openly gay Mormon leaders.
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As Pierce explains, Mormon doctrine isn't clear on the subject.
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The Mormon church has had missionaries in Nicaragua since 1953.
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God, he could charm the magic underwear off a Mormon.
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Savannah is 12 years old, a Mormon, and a lesbian.
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Is it the Bill Clinton definition or the Mormon definition?
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After all, the Mormon Church was their provider and protector.
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They're other things, or they're [owned by] the Mormon church.
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Georgia from Salisbury mentioned hints of "The Book of Mormon".
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And don't miss the Mormon Row Historic District homestead complex.
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"They practice their own brand of Mormon theology," she said.
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Read more: 9 celebrities you'd never guess were raised Mormon
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Here's the thing: I was a fully believing Mormon once.
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"Mormon millennials are more liberal on every issue," she says.
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"You always have to follow up with Mormon," she said.
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Don't you watch any of those Mormon shows, marriage shows?
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But there's more to Mormon theology than marriage, of course.
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The Mormon Church, meanwhile, teaches that gay relationships are sinful.
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His deep roots in the Mormon Church transcend political boundaries.
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Jason Chaffetz, a Mormon politician, pulled his support for Trump.
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He made his Broadway debut in The Book of Mormon Platt was 19 when he made his Broadway debut in the Book of Mormon — stepping into the role of goofy misfit Elder Cunningham in 2014.
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Using the play button above, you can hear the actress read Nicole Hardy's essay "Single, Female, Mormon, Alone," about a Mormon woman whose life is changed by a trip to, of all places, Planned Parenthood.
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Related: The Oregon Militia's Mormon Leader Is Getting Snubbed by the Mormon Church Meanwhile, at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, armed occupiers remained camped out in several government buildings, undisturbed by local or federal law enforcement.
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United States (1878), in which a Mormon was prosecuted for polygamy.
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His youngest son left for Mormon mission in England last summer.
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The Mormon church is the second-biggest recipient of DAF dollars.
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In Mormon doctrine, his eternal fate was contingent on the answer.
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But his experience as a faithful gay Mormon hasn't been easy.
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Correction: This story was revised to correct the spelling of Mormon.
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Both houses of Congress refused to seat duly elected Mormon representatives.
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Today, the Mormon Church still bars women from serving as bishops.
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Cover: Helen W. joined the Mormon Church when she was 17.
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He is also part Hispanic, Japanese and Filipino, and a Mormon.
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Raised Mormon, the Quinns relocated to Utah when John was 12.
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But that's not an easy sell to Utah's large Mormon population.
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They were headed to a wedding in LeBaron, another Mormon community.
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The word Mormon has been with the church from the beginning.
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The Mormon Church's latest announcement suggests that this time has come.
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Three Mormon missionaries from Utah were also reported among the injured.
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Others prepared meals, including many members of the small Mormon community.
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But equally important was his historically poor showing among Mormon voters.
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On Wednesday, dozens of troops were spread throughout the Mormon community.
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And Romney, himself a practicing Mormon, seems to agree with that.
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Others include the singer Jackie Evancho and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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He delivered three books of victims' testimonies to Mormon church headquarters.
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A stake is a regional Mormon body, like a Catholic diocese.
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Even the Mormon Church is taking steps toward greater LGBTQ inclusion.
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Dooce was also one of many blogs written by Mormon women.
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But also the Mormon church, the most American creation among religions.
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Her chapter on a Mormon community employs the typical European approach of treating religious Americans as exotic zoo animals (although I was surprised to learn that Mormon Utah has the country's highest rate of antidepressant use).
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Patrick Mason, a religion professor and chair of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University, said there are a couple of reasons why the church wants to create a clear separation between itself and the word Mormon.
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In a reversal of years of branding and more than a century of colloquial use, the religion commonly known as the Mormon Church has asked that people stop using the word "Mormon" when referring to the faith.
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The word "restored" reflects a belief that other forms of Christianity departed from certain original teachings, a mistake which was corrected by later prophets, including one called Mormon, whose insights are recorded in the Book of Mormon.
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Trump's inauguration will be a sad day for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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But the effects of these anti-Mormon sentiments are still felt today.
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The broader alt-right Mormon community appears to have receded as well.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings in the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Utah.
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Continual white Mormon control of the county felt like a foregone conclusion.
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Some ex-FLDS have become Mormon; others have left God behind altogether.
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Trump also tweeted Friday that Mormon voters wouldn't support "LIARS" like Cruz:
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One reason that Clinton aides are particularly high on Arizona: Mormon voters.
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"The idea of my being Mormon and gay was fine," he said.
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The 40-year-old also served as a Mormon missionary in Brazil.
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The compromise has powerful Utah advocates behind it, including the Mormon church.
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Unveiled on Tuesday, "Mormon and Gay" is one answer to that question.
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It was a Mormon ceremony, and Wes walked in the horse procession.
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The rhetoric comes from a curious interpretation of the Bundys' Mormon faith.
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The Mormon church also said three missionaries were injured at the airport.
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They walked through what the Mormon Church teaches about same-sex attraction.
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Many Mormon politicians have been supporting amnesty and open borders for decades.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir plays an ongoing role in this recuperative mission.
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"I will become a Mormon, how about that?" the avowed atheist said.
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What has been the pricing for "Book of Mormon" tickets in Chicago?
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Mr. Romney faced resistance from some evangelicals because of his Mormon faith.
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As 2012 GOP nominee, Romney was the first major Mormon presidential candidate.
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Manicured mansions border a Mormon temple at the foot of Frenchman Mountain.
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Salt Lake City (CNN)Music plays a big role in Mormon life.
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Clinton courted Mormon voters who have been resistant to Mr. Trump. Mrs.
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Anyone who remembers "Turn It Off" in "Mormon" can catch the resemblance.
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Support for change extends beyond campus and into the broader Mormon community.
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A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir quit rather than do it.
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In 1974, he left the circus to serve as a Mormon missionary.
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But Ms. Teuscher, who is Mormon, could relate to Odette's deep vulnerability.
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In order to understand Romney you have to understand his Mormon beliefs.
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He cited a Mormon hymn in explaining his decision on Fox News.
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He was the first Mormon presidential nominees and so he easily won.
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Ms. Weeks eventually moved to "The Book of Mormon," including the tour.
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You might know this spectacle as Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Nine members of the La Mora Mormon fundamentalist settlement in Sonora, Ariz.
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One issue at play is the distinctive Mormon doctrine of eternal marriage.
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My grandmother was president of the temple, her grandmother, a devout Mormon.
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And high-profile Mormon politicians and leaders are publicly dumping on Trump.
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Note: this post was updated to reflect Mormon presence at the March.
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The replacement of Uchtdorf generated some buzz and debate in Mormon circles Tuesday, though Matt Bowman — a Mormon and history professor at Henderson State University — noted that the church is governed through "unanimity and consensus" among top leadership.
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But McMullin does have one thing going for him: He's a Mormon and a graduate of Brigham Young University and is expected to campaign in Utah, whose Mormon-heavy electorate does not like the profligate and profane Trump.
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He spent most of his teenage years in a Mormon foster home, one of over 40,000 Indigenous children baptized and relocated to Mormon homes between 1947 and 2000 as part of what was known as the Indian Placement Program.
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It comes from the Book of Mormon, the church's signature text (the main thing associated with the church that is keeping its name), which adherents believe was recorded on gold plates by the prophet Mormon and his son, Moroni.
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The Mormon religion also plays a part in the state's start-up success.
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But because the law contained religious exemptions, the Mormon Church supported it fully.
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It's trivially easy to spot the deeply conservative Mormon areas on these maps.
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"I grew up in a very religious Mormon family in Honduras," she said.
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A group of Mormon women walk to Temple Square in Salt Lake City.
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The church's "I'm a Mormon" campaign in a London tube station in 2013.
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However, the changes could influence how Mormon leadership weighs in on social issues.
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Since then, he has only become more influential in the ex-Mormon community.
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He never ventured into the large repository of anti-Mormon blogs and forums.
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These roots will likely boost him in Utah, which is about 68% Mormon.
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Oh, and one Mormon violinist who combines classical music, dubstep and contemporary dance.
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Rosas said he realized he could be "same-sex attracted," married and Mormon.
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The jazz-pop singer, 39, grew up in a Mormon family in Utah.
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"I'm a very unique Mormon," Reynolds says in the new issue of PEOPLE.
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The pair first crossed paths in Paris, reportedly on a Mormon mission trip.
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"He questioned Mitt Romney's Mormon faith," Cox said to a chorus of boos.
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He was the first Mormon to become a major party presidential nominee. 3.
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For questions about doctrine it pointed CNN to its website, Mormon and Gay.
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By contrast, being Mormon or Muslim was assessed to be a potential difficulty.
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When a Mormon prophet speaks, it is as if God himself is speaking.
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It is one of the largest Mormon polygamist groups in the United States.
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Throughout the primaries, Mr. Trump was pummeled in the Book of Mormon Belt.
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Noisey: What made you guys want to make a video about Mormon rituals?
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"We talk a lot about comparing the shunnings," said Christianson, the ex-Mormon.
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CEO Kenny Matthews, 27, spent two years on a Mormon mission in Cambodia.
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Since the 20113s, the settlement has been an outpost for breakaway Mormon polygamists.
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One big factor that could put Utah up for grabs: the Mormon vote.
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The word "Mormon" is out, says the president of the Utah-based church.
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But his revulsion at President Trump also appeared to reflect his Mormon faith.
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Arthur Conan Doyle set part of "A Study in Scarlet" in Mormon Utah.
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Steven, who describes himself as "a recovering Mormon," has no patience with religion.
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It's clear that a primary reason was the influence of the Mormon Church.
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But the Mormon bishop she turned to for advice worked with her husband.
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Anything less than that ideal can feel like failure, some Mormon women said.
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" And Chad Daybell has authored apocalyptic novels "based loosely on Mormon religious theology.
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The Mormon Church's annual conference on April 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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She challenges the Mormon church's claim that worthiness interviews are a doctrinal necessity.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, though, is reportedly slated to perform during the inauguration.
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"When I meet people here, we've all had the same experience, whatever high-demand religion we left, it's the same experience," said Bruce Christianson, a 61-year-old former Mormon in a hoodie bearing the logo of the ex-Mormon subreddit.
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In an address to Mormon millennials in 2016, President Nelson defended a controversial church policy set down by President Monson that declared gay Mormon couples to be apostates, and barred their children from most religious rites until they turn 18.
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The only exceptions listed are for the Book of Mormon, the church's sacred text, and historical names like the Mormon Trail, a government-recognized path that members of the church took from Illinois to Utah in the mid-19th century.
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I grew up Mormon, and was regularly told by churchgoers in my congregation that regardless of the message of love he preached, Rogers was actually a militant anti-Mormon who protested the construction of Latter-Day Saint churches and temples.
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Due in part to the town's size and to its relatively large Mormon community—the families of the accused and the McDaniels are all Mormon—there is an expectation that people handle conflict within the community, without bringing in outsiders.
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How Mormon were they, and how do you think that played into what happened?
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VoteCast showed about 8 in 10 Mormon voters in Utah backed Romney (83 percent).
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McMullin is a Utah native, a graduate of Brigham Young University, and a Mormon.
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"In Mormon culture, three months is a long time to be engaged," she says.
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A member of the Mormon choir, which has performed at five presidential inaugurations, quit.
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The ad would appeal to Mormon women not because it suggests anything about Mrs.
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Jenny Egan, 25, was raised in a rural Oregan town in a Mormon family.
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I start off with The Missionary, the namesake of Salt Lake City's Mormon missionaries.
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They wanted to catch the assailant who broke into a Mormon church on Nov.
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In 2010, it launched a high-profile international advertising campaign titled I'm a Mormon.
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Romney served his Mormon mission in France, spending 30 months evangelizing beginning in 1966.
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Trump might be many things, but he's no paragon of virtue, Mormon or otherwise.
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Meanwhile, Trent Cook, a returning Mormon missionary, joined the team for his sophomore season.
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He came out in front of a packed graduation crowd -- at a Mormon university.
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But despite the church labeling him an apostate, Dehlin still considers himself a Mormon.
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The Mormon church banned polygamy in 1890 but some breakaway enclaves still practise it.
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McMullin is Mormon and has ties to the state (he attended Brigham Young University).
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Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, is a Mormon and owns a home in Utah.
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Instead, they are funneled into a law firm closely tied to the Mormon Church.
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McMullin is uniquely positioned to do well in the largely Republican and Mormon state.
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These people shop at Costco and have their house stocked like a Mormon pantry.
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Official church policy welcomes members of the Mormon faith that have same-sex attractions.
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I want them to know that it's OK to be Mormon and be gay.
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A REHEARSAL of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is unlike any other church-choir practice.
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That world-conquering confidence has long been the beating heart of the Mormon Church.
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His mother's father, Heber J. Grant, was the seventh president of the Mormon Church.
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Flake, a Mormon from the tiny town of Snowflake, Arizona, is polite and introspective.
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He helped persuade the Mormon Church to stop the posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims.
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It has also abandoned the name Mormon, while the LeBaróns continue to use it.
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Brown, a Mormon, speaks fluent French and has a masters degree in international business.
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The dirt road leads to the Mormon Row Historic District, which was settled in
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I am not a Mormon and am not advocating that religion or any other.
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Approximately 330,000 Mormon youths are served by the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts program.
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The teenager would like to go on a Mormon mission before his EMT training.
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"[Segel's] character was a Mormon who had never been around black people," Brown said.
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The Mormon leader also refused to alter the church's position on same-sex marriage.
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He married a young Mormon Venezuelan woman and was there to be with her.
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The show is being directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw ("The Book of Mormon").
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Balkman set off on his two-year Mormon mission to Argentina in November 1990.
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Playing to the larger moral issues is where the Mormon charge will be crucial.
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Another Mormon senator, Mike Crapo of Idaho, has kept an open mind thus far.
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The Americans, one by one, got drunk, except for Ide, who was a Mormon.
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The Mormon Church said in a statement that its leaders were studying the announcement.
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Smart's decision was all-the-more challenging considering it went against his Mormon faith.
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Utah's distinct place in politics is usually chalked up to its large Mormon population.
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Romney, who is Mormon, has been critical of Moore, calling him unfit for office.
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Most others are considering legalisation (although Utah, whose lawmakers are largely Mormon, is not).
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Several recent polls found McMullin, a Mormon, making much more headway with Utah voters.
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Among Mormon voters, he is leading with 143 percent, compared to Trump's 214 percent.
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Among Mormon voters, he is leading with 33 percent, compared to Trump's 28 percent.
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Dooce is still about dental visits, therapy sessions, and life as an ex-Mormon.
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In a video from 2008, Gong updates Mormon leaders on advances in gene therapy.
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Mormon voters are more conservative than most Americans and, overwhelmingly, more reliable Republican voters.
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Utah has a significant Mormon population that usually typically sways Republican in general elections.
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Trey also has an incredible resume, creating "The Book of Mormon" with Matt Stone.
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Anti-Trump conservatives recruit candidate Here's why he could be worth watching during the final three months: A Mormon from Utah McMullin is Mormon, born in Provo, Utah, who attended Brigham Young University, which is owned an operated by the LDS Church.
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Washington (CNN)A group of 19 scholars of Mormon history filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over President Trump's blocked travel ban, pointing out similarities between the treatment of Mormon immigrants in the 19th century and Muslim immigrants today.
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As it turns out, the same firm that created the Mormon Church's abuse reporting system in 20193 now defends it in abuse-related lawsuits, including the one filed by Helen W. Structurally, that law firm, Kirton McConkie, is independent of the Mormon Church.
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Church leaders say "Mormon," which refers to a prophet who plays a pivotal role in the Book of Mormon, still holds a place of honor in the faith, but, as a reference to Latter-day Saints, it is an inaccuracy imposed by outsiders.
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"In many ways, this community has sought to live among the cracks -- not American, but not fully Mexican, either; Mormon, but not 'that' Mormon; desires a peaceful refuge, but faces constant violence," said Benjamin Park, a historian at Sam Houston State University.
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A relationship of convenience with Mexico Mexican political leaders agreed to look the other way if the Mormon settlers remained quiet about their marriage practices and helped develop the local economy, said Barbara Jones Brown, executive director of the Mormon History Association.
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In 2016, Russell Nelson, the current prophet and president of the Mormon church, declared that God had personally revealed to senior church leaders that they should ban children of LGBT parents from baptism, an ordinance essential for salvation, according to Mormon doctrine.
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A suspect was arrested Sunday after a shooting at a Mormon church in Fallon, Nev.
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FLDS is a U.S.-based splinter group of the Mormon church that endorses plural marriage.
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Though she was raised Mormon, Kalani lost her virginity to Asuelu and quickly became pregnant.
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They believe in the Bible and a book of scripture called the Book of Mormon.
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And that's a beautiful thing, especially for confused kids growing up under devoutly Mormon roofs.
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In a country where individual achievement is prized, the Mormon ethos presents an unusual mixture.
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Swanson used YouTube to create playlists of construction videos, Mormon sermons and ultraconservative political videos.
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In the Mormon belief system, every human being exists prior to their life on Earth.
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Soon after his mission, Fisher began attending a "family ward" -- Mormon congregations open to all.
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Flake, a Mormon, is married to wife Cheryl Flake, with whom he shares five children.
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She felt like an outcast, as if she didn't fit into their predominantly Mormon town.
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Even the Mormon Church didn't escape this trend — with a new online venue called MormonLeaks.com.
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In 2017, Allure published a story about the disproportionate number of popular Mormon beauty bloggers.
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Though Hicks is Roman Catholic and Porter is Mormon, they were reportedly seen praying together.
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The Imagine Dragons frontman, 31, grew up in a conservative Mormon family in Las Vegas.
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US Latinos can be black, Asian, Jewish, Mormon, evangelical Christian, LGBT, and everything in between.
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Bundy insisted, following a long Mormon tradition, that the Constitution was a divinely inspired document.
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But as a Mormon bishop, he played an all-encompassing role in his congregants' lives.
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This might indicate that the animosity between the Mormon electorate and Donald Trump is real.
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Dustin credits his storytelling talents to conversations at his Mormon family's dinner table in Texas.
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Nor does the choir's participation in Trump's inauguration sit well with early Mormon women's history.
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Many people ask Mormon feminists—if the Church rejects you, why don't you just leave?
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Founded by the Mormon church, this private school has an undergraduate enrollment of nearly 1863,2186.
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Romney, a fellow Mormon, has long been rumored as a replacement for the veteran senator.
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They said the Mormon families may have been targeted in a case of mistaken identity.
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Johnson's campaign is based out of the heavily Mormon and religiously conservative state of Utah.
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In her op-ed, Clinton uses Mormon and Utah officials to help make her case.
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In her Mormon church in the United States, she was surrounded by friends who voted.
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For years, the Mormon Church has urged government officials to show greater compassion toward immigrants.
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And there are also relatively large Mormon populations in some of the states neighboring Utah.
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The announcement does not impact Mormon churches worldwide, just ones in the US and Canada.
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The ad, which was targeted to Mormon voters, has no ties to Mr. Cruz's campaign.
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He's a MormonMcMullin is a Mormon and received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University.
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I started with the introduction of the Book of Mormon, as recommended by Sister Reynolds.
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His size reminded this story's author of paintings of righteously ripped Book of Mormon heroes.
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Not the first time This effort to distance itself from the Mormon name isn't new.
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Fugal, like many in Utah, was born into the Mormon church and considers himself spiritual.
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One of the biggest issues for Trump among Mormon voters is his position on immigration.
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By 2011, Mormon-sponsored packs and troops represented one-third of the nation's 421,21940 scouts.
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At times, Mr. Flores tried to convert Ms. Klaben from Judaism to his Mormon faith.
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Mr. Dummar, who was Mormon, insisted that he had no idea how it got there.
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The dialogue in the Mormon church about LGBTQI issues has been negative, it's been toxic.
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Time will be the ultimate arbiter as to whether the Mormon Church got it right.
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After decades as a "rock-solid" Mormon, he said, he left the church last year.
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Nathan Kitchen, president of the LGBTQ Mormon group Affirmations, said that Utt's reassurances are misleading.
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Mr. Luna remained a practicing Roman Catholic while his wife stayed in the Mormon Church.
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But in Salt Lake City, a majority of the population does not identify as Mormon.
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While Ms. Sinema was raised in a Mormon family, she now ascribes to no religion.
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In fact, for much of his career, McNaughton, who is Mormon, wasn't a political painter.
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The musical is directed by the Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw ("The Book of Mormon").
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The issue of Mitt Romney's Mormon faith was raised by equally mysterious sources in 2008.
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Mormon missionaries are assigned to companions they have to stay with all day, every day.
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She's a very strict Mormon, so it's more of an ask than you might think.
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" At a Utah rally Friday, Trump asked the audience "are you sure he's a Mormon?
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I grew up in a small Mormon farming community in northeastern Utah during the 1960s.
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The Mormon Church and the Boy Scouts of America are ending a 105-year partnership.
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Then he went and attacked Mitt Romney, a devout Mormon who voted to convict him.
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He found work at a Mormon charity and at a factory that produced dietary supplements.
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Many Mormon families never returned, including Romney's father, who was then a boy of 5.
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"The people in La Mora are what is called ... an independent Mormon family," Rosetti said.
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The victims are part of a Mormon community of about 3,000 members living in Mexico.
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She holds a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and has participated in Mormon missions.
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Clinton and 21 percent for Evan McMullin, a conservative Mormon who ran as an independent.
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Some members of the Mormon communities of northern Mexico have also pressed for the designation.
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Young invited his friends, two administrators from his local Mormon congregation, into his living room.
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Likewise, Holderness recalled being consistently turned away by the Mormon bishops she sought guidance from.
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Trump's bombast and his policies — particularly toward immigration — are at odds with Mormon political ideals.
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He also confirmed that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be performing at the swearing-in ceremony.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a national treasure renowned for the superb caliber of its singing.
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More than a century ago, it was Mormon immigrants who found presidential administrations less than welcoming.
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Christmas-y-ness: 9 Did you know the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is an all-volunteer choir?
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Almost every former Mormon I spoke to cited Runnells' letter as a catalyst for their departure.
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Instead, she uses terms common to Christianity, but not typically a part of the Mormon lexicon.
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"In Mormon culture, three months is a long time to be engaged," she previously told PEOPLE.
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" The Mormon church has said it is investigating both incidents and has vowed to "bring accountability.
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The independent conservative candidate McMullin, a Mormon, took aim at Trump over his comments towards Huntsman.
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For instance, "Mormon" is the most popular term in Utah and Idaho, where more Mormons live.
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They disagree to what extent the Mormon church played a role in fostering feelings of isolation.
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It also ultimately pointed to another question: Is there room for gays in the Mormon church?
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Isaac Haight, who comes up in Griffin's story, was the Mormon leader who ordered the massacre.
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The remaining children, who had been in the covered wagon, were all placed in Mormon homes.
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McMullin is Mormon and attended Brigham Young University, so he has some ties to the state.
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The widening split in opinion on same-sex marriage is particularly apparent in the Mormon church.
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Here's the full story on how one Mormon ancestry project turned innocent people into crime suspects.
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Although she was raised Mormon, Ardern now identifies as agnostic, according to The New Zealand Herald.
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So, we asked how he felt about "The Book of Mormon" -- compliment or were you offended?
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Ricky has said he became a more devout Mormon due to Andrea's involvement with the Church.
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Dick tells us he's Mormon and Elvi, an African-American, formerly identified as a Jehovah's Witness.
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In 2012, no one in possession of their sanity denounced Mitt Romney for his Mormon faith.
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In settling the lawsuit in 2018 for an undisclosed sum, the Mormon Church denied any wrongdoing.
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Mormon support groups have formed in recent years for LGBT youth and their parents, Embree said.
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Their February 2012 wedding, at the BYU-Hawaii Mormon temple, made the cover of People magazine.
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The Tabernacle Choir's musical tradition is like the Mormon religion itself: inclusive and open to outsiders.
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An exemplary Mormon who was hugely successful in business, Mr Romney is extremely popular in Utah.
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Responding to the uproar surrounding the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's involvement with the inauguration, Utah Lt. Gov.
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Take "The Book of Mormon", a comedy about missionaries, written by the makers of "South Park".
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The Joshua tree is believed to have received its name from a group of Mormon travelers.
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The victims, dual U.S.-Mexican citizens, all lived in a Mormon community south of the border.
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He has a Mormon problem too, an African-American problem, a Hispanic problem, a women problem.
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We're still learning more about the lethal ambush of a prominent Mormon family in northern Mexico.
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Three Mormon missionaries and a U.S. Air Force member and his family were among those hurt.
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The Italian temple is the 162nd Mormon temple in the world and the 12th in Europe.
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First, while Utah is mostly Mormon, within Salt Lake City proper non-Mormons are the majority.
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"I've got a copy of the Book of Mormon with his name on it," he said.
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Easton told KUTV that he was still grappling with how to live as a gay Mormon.
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Adams was born in Italy while her father was stationed there, and was brought up Mormon.
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The holiday season marks the return of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to Salt Lake City, Utah.
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She's working today — and, oh, she's decided to convert from the family's Mormon religion to Judaism.
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It lost to "The Book of Mormon," for which Ms. Anderson-Lopez's husband was a writer.
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The latter is part of a conglomerate controlled by the Kingston Group, a fundamentalist Mormon clan.
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Jeffs is the de facto leader of the (FLDS), an unacknowledged offshoot of the Mormon Church.
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Her research passions include deification, religious feminism (both Christian and Mormon), interfaith marriage, and interfaith dialogue.
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Orrin Hatch into supporting a bill by getting a music label to produce Hatch's Mormon music.
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Romney, who is Mormon and lives in Utah, said he was planning on caucusing for Cruz.
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But even as Mormon women strained under domestic responsibility, they were able to become political actors.
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Mr. Holt traveled to Venezuela in 2016 to marry a fellow Mormon he had met online.
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She was "baptized Mormon," as she put it, but is no longer active in the church.
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For a century, nearly all Mormon boys became scouts, and the church became scouting's largest sponsor.
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The structure of Mormon families is hugely advantageous when it comes to passing along religious identity.
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It was used as early as 1854 to describe Mormon women fighting over their shared husband.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, for example, will have to consider adding several words to its name.
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About 60 percent of Utah residents describe themselves as Mormon, a significant number of them nonpracticing.
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Dress for the weather in comfortable clothes (avoid suits unless you're knocking as a Mormon missionary).
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Jim Call, a member of the Mormon community, collected donations to buy dining sets and TVs.
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Hale grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City, and religious themes poke through in small ways.
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Feelings of same-sex attraction are not against Mormon rules, but acting on those feelings is.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which has performed at previous presidential inaugurations, confirmed its appearance on Thursday.
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Businessman Tommy Ahlquist (R) will bank on his connection to Idaho's large and conservative Mormon population.
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Sharlee Mullins Glenn, an author and teacher, is the founder of Mormon Women for Ethical Government.
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His friend noticed Draper had lost weight, but remained the affable Mormon kid from back home.
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What does seem clear is that many Mormon women were less than thrilled with the development.
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The Mormon Church named its first Latin-American and Asian-American apostles on Saturday, NPR reported.
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Romney, a Mormon who is popular in Utah, has a strong chance of becoming a senator.
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All of them are dual US-Mexican citizens, and all members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect.
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The Mormon-dominated state is one of the most socially and politically conservative in the country.
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And thanks to McMullin's strong Mormon support, he even fell far below 50 percent in Utah.
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"Bannon's attacks ... are disappointing and unjustified," said Hatch, a fellow Mormon like many in the state.
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This Mormon connection may be why Utah is such a freeze-dried food hub: Of 21 freeze-dried food companies I counted online, 16 were from the state, and Bedford told me she first learned about long-term food storage by reading blogs by Mormon women.
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For every Mormon youth living in a home that makes a practice out of rejecting their identity, Excommunication represents proof that gay people can survive being raised Mormon, that one can come out on the other side of faith intact and in control of their identity.
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As far as I know, no visibly Mormon groups were in attendance at the Park City march, but the comments on a post on a Facebook group for Mormon Democrats reveals that many Mormons were present at the marches in Park City, DC, and other cities.
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Some of my friends knew I was Muslim, but I had Jewish, Muslim, Mormon, and Catholic friends.
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And second, if God did look down, his only thought would've been, 'Wait, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?
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He, a newly converted Mormon and law student, couldn't possibly be a sadistic serial rapist and murderer.
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"I'll become a Mormon, how about that?" he says, before addressing the former governor of Massachusetts directly.
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In 2016, trans woman Misty Snow ran for Senate in a Mormon state that's historically voted red.
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Reed Smoot (R-UT) was targeted for expulsion because he was a Mormon, and he survived. Sen.
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He also wouldn't discuss whether it was appropriate for Trump to question the Utah Republican's Mormon faith.
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The Mormon Church: In a historic move, the church put two nonwhite men in top leadership posts.
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Romney was the first Mormon to represent a major party in his run for president in 2012.
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"The idea was that BYU would be an engine for maintaining a coherent Mormon culture," Bowman said.
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Mormon voters represented 25 percent of voters in the Nevada caucus in 2012, according to exit polls.
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It's practice is an early teaching of the Mormon church, who preached polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
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How could people call themselves Mormon and drink Diet Coke—or wear skirts that revealed their knees?
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A fifth-generation Arizonan, the senator grew up on the cattle ranch founded by his Mormon ancestors.
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But a top spokesman for the Mormon church denounced the current armed occupation of the Oregon refuge.
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Imagine Alex Robert Ross as Brandon Flowers but without the muscles, boyish good looks, or Mormon charm.
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"The Church has zero tolerance when it comes to abuse," the Mormon Church states on its website.
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The Mormon Church's lack of transparency contrasts starkly with actions taken by other religious groups and institutions.
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"The context of a Mormon ward is incredibly important in the life of a member," she says.
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She was a conservative Mormon, but her own background made her empathetic to people who were othered.
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At least part of my job involves blogging about Brandon Flowers, who is an Extremely Handsome Mormon.
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Mormon supremacy is no longer the foregone conclusion that it was when I was a young believer.
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The Mormon church's 1.7 percent annual growth is still quite good in these dire times for religion.
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A drug gang murdered nine members of a Mormon family in Sonora, a state in northern Mexico.
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Now, he says he has faith again that he will be able to find a Mormon wife.
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Trump's style has clashed with the family-oriented sensibilities of many Mormon voters in the state. Sen.
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Reports also emerged of three Mormon missionaries from Utah who had survived the attacks with significant injuries.
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Mr. Madsen, who is Mormon, said he thought he was being strong-armed into supporting Mr. Trump.
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While the video is a fabrication, the secret Mormon marriage rituals detailed within are 100 percent real.
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Leonard: It can be very alienating for non-Mormon kids or kids who choose not to go.
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And that leads to all kinds of questions: Will the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir be renamed?
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Like many things about "Mormon," the number manages to spoof Broadway conventions while indulging in them lovingly.
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An iconic symbol of the faith, Moroni stands atop most of the Mormon church's 134 temples worldwide.
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But those stances also worked against him in Utah, where 60 percent of the population is Mormon.
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Romney, who is Mormon and lives in Utah, said he plans to caucus for Cruz on Tuesday.
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Flake, a Mormon dad with a self-deprecating sense of humor, was subsumed by the Trump tide.
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She said she would mourn the loss of the word Mormon if it became a complete taboo.
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