Stephen Cranney recently wrote an article for the Deseret News regarding what he feels is a confusion people have regarding The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In a past Joe Rogan podcast, he and another discussed the abuse women faced at the hands of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT was brought up. It’s obvious that both of these individuals had the 2 different churches confused with each other.
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A small note today. Both The Courier and The Times in Scotland have run headlines largely advertising the faith of a couple cleared of abuse charges. Mormon bishop and midwife from Dundee cleared of abuse charges after five-day trial Mormon bishop and wife cleared of child assaults This is no surprise, as our study showed, media outlets are much more likely to use the word “Mormon” in connection with negative news. This illustrates the long-felt frustration that Latter-day Saints’ faith is only public in negative circumstances. This frustration perhaps is doubly felt this week, after the recent Washington Post article about influential Latter-day Saint journalist, Jack Anderson, left out his faith entirely except to note that he could not be assassinated by poison, because he didn’t drink.
In the leadership session of General Conference forty-five new area authority seventies have been called. They include senior counsel for the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, a forensic psychiatrist, and several from the fields of construction, law, education, and medicine. For the full list visit the Church’s newsroom
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