WASHINGTON, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of Utah's passage of a guestworker/amnesty bill, the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that effort, and the stance of the Church on immigration issues generally, has come under scrutiny. While nominally neutral on the issue, the Church seems to have moved toward support for illegal immigrants and opposition to immigration enforcement. Contradictions between official Church policies, the statements of senior Church leaders, and the actions of the Church's public affairs and media groups have sparked considerable debate among members. A new paper from the Center for Immigration Studies is the first look at this issue. "The Mormon Church and Illegal Immigration" is authored by Ronald W. Mortensen, Ph...
Although it is not uncommon for couples to travel once they retire from the workforce, Darrel and Linda Danielson recently left for a different type of experience. The Collierville couple have been asked to serve a mission in Guatemala for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their service began this month and ends April 2013.
On June 10, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued an official statement on immigration that called on its members to follow the law - and also to view the immigration debate that is roiling in many parts of the country through the prism of compassion. The statement reads: Around the world, debate on the immigration question has become intense. That is especially so in the United States. Most Americans agree that the federal government of the United States should secure its borders and sharply reduce or eliminate the flow of undocumented immigrants. Unchecked and unregulated, such a flow may destabilize society and ultimately become unsustainable.
Salt Lake City has become the first Utah city to offer housing and employment protections for gays and lesbians -- an action supported by the Mormon Church. The City Council, in a unanimous vote Tuesday, passed a pair of nondiscrimination ordinances that would bar landlords and employers from discriminating based on sexuality -- a protection not currently afforded under state or federal laws.
FARMINGTON -- As the sun crept over the Wasatch Front early Tuesday morning, its rays not only fell on a new, 20,000-square- foot LDS Church meetinghouse in Farmington but also powered it. Featuring 158 panels mounted over about a third of the soon-to- be-opened stake center's south roof, the solar power system is one of several innovative uses of energy-efficient construction and utility technologies being tested by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
ROWLAND HEIGHTS - Sheriff's officials are investigating graffiti found early Saturday at a Mormon church as a hate crime, authorities said, however little other information was released. The graffiti was discovered about 8:15 a.m. by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 2120 Valencia Street, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Robert Causey, who declined to give his first name.
SALT LAKE CITY - National gay rights activists said Friday they'll descend on Salt Lake City's Mormon church headquarters to deliver more than 100,000 letters asking a senior church leader to recant recent anti-gay statements. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay civil rights organization, this week called for Boyd K. Packer to correct statements that homosexuality is unnatural and can be overcome, calling the comments factually inaccurate and dangerous.
SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church's vigorous, well-heeled support for Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in California last year, has turned the Utah-based faith into a lightning rod for gay-rights activism, including a nationwide "kiss-in" Saturday. The event comes after gay couples here and in San Antonio and El Paso, Texas, were arrested, cited for trespassing or harassed by police for publicly kissing. In Utah, the July 9 trespassing incident occurred after a couple were observed by security guards on a downtown park-like plaza owned by the 13 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Opponents of a controversial pipeline that would tap water from a shared Nevada/Utah aquifer and convey it to Las Vegas say more than 2,300 protests have been filed against the plan, including objections mounted by the Mormon church. An analysis released Tuesday by the Great Basin Water Network shows the protests against the well applications sought by the Southern Nevada Water Authority represent 150 individuals and families, 16 ranches and seven tribes in areas that could be impacted by the pipeline.
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