Reuters Religion Editor, Tom Heneghan, takes a few stabs at the sacred ordinances of the temple in this article. Heneghan states: “Church members are told to focus on their ancestors, a rite understandable in a relatively new denomination founded in 1830. But so many now perform the rituals for celebrities, heroes and perfect strangers that [...]
Good article today from the Pepperdine Graphic on the media’s misperception of Romney. Despite rock star credentials, some media outlets seem bent on highlighting the differences between Mormonism and other Christian churches as a way of discrediting Romney. Romney is top in academics, top in business, top in non-profit work, and top in politics. Not [...]
Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney has one over-arching goal for her four-hour production “The Mormons,” which airs this spring on PBS. “I hope that most of the stereotypes — ideally, all of them — will be blown away,” she told the Deseret Morning News on Saturday. “Because so many of them are just based on ignorance. [...]
The UK Times blows it big time with this story, which intermingles incorrect terminology all related to a protest put on in SLC last summer by a group of polygamists. Here’s a sample: “Mormon teenagers demonstrate in Sal(t) Lake City for their right to choose plural marriage” and… “Mormon wives are coming forward for the first [...]
Ashlie Rasmussen of Falls Church, Virginia, wrote an excellent letter to the editor for the Washington Post, titled “No Place for Polygamy in Mormon Church”. The letter is in response to the Post’s article titled “Polygamists Fight to Be Seen as Part of Mainstream Society”, which LDS News Watch previously reported about. The text of [...]
The Washington Post published an article last week titled “Polygamists Fight to Be Seen As Part of Mainstream Society”. Like many articles dealing with polygamy, this one seemingly obfuscates the distinction between religious organizations that practice polygamy and the LDS Church, which does not. The Church does not practice polygamy, and members of the Church [...]
On November 20, The Salt Lake Tribune posted an article titled “Many voters say they would never vote for Mormon president”. From the article: Some 43 percent of Americans wouldn’t even consider voting for a Mormon for president, according to a new poll that shows an increase from previous surveys in the number of voters [...]
An honestly enquiring Christian asks why Mormons don’t worship the cross. Writer Lee Thompson, a non-Mormon, goes overboard in the answer section of this article from the Journal Gazette located in Charleston, Ill. Mr. Thompson says that ”Mormons never use crosses anywhere, perhaps because Mormons believe Jesus’ death on the cross is insufficient to obtain eternal salvation.” [...]