Utah judge Thomas Low allegedly held back tears as he called convicted sexual predator Keith Vallejo “an extraordinarily good man” before sentencing him to prison.


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HE SUMMER of 1983 was blistering hot in New England. A record heat wave saw temperatures soar toward the 100-degree mark from June well into September. July had been the hottest month ever recorded at Boston's Logan Airport.

The region's beloved Boston Red Sox, full of hope and promise early in spring and claiming first place in the American League ( Read more... )

After writing negative articles about the Republican candidate, the managing editor of MormonThink.com says he faces excommunication. Is the Church on a witch hunt? Jamie Reno reports.

David Twede, 47, a scientist, novelist, and fifth-generation Mormon, is managing editor of MormonThink.com, an online magazine produced largely by members of the ( Read more... )

Late last March the Mormon Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall. Built for roughly $2 billion, the City Creek Center stands directly across the street from the church’s iconic neo-Gothic temple in Salt Lake City. The mall includes a retractable glass roof, 5,000 underground parking spots, and nearly 100 stores and restaurants, ranging ( Read more... )

SALT LAKE CITY, June 29 (Reuters) - Troubled by issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage, several dozen Mormons plan to resign this weekend from the church en masse in an unusual public show of defiance in Salt Lake City ( Read more... )

Mahatma Gandhi, who employed nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence after more than a century of British rule, was posthumously baptized by proxy by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to information provided to The Huffington Post.

Helen Radkey, a former Mormon who has until now has focused on ( Read more... )

The Mormon Church has apologised for posthumously baptising the parents of Nazi-hunter Simon WiesenthalJews Asher and Rosa Rapp Wiesenthal were baptised in proxy ceremonies in the US states of Arizona and Utah in January, records show ( Read more... )

I actually didn't know they did this. If I found out that these proxy baptisms happened to someone I loved in life, I'd be righteously pissed. Think this will be trouble for Romney in Florida -- which has a high Jewish population?

Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters Mitt Romney's problem with ( Read more... )