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This explains the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  position about Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights -- very interesting!  I hope this is easy to read --   NEWS RELEASE  —  12 MARCH 2015 Explaining Religious Freedom  and LGBT Rights NEWS RELEASE  —  12 MARCH 2015 SALT LAKE CITY  —  The following simple explanation in non-legal terms is provided to help members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others understand the background and the decisions relating to the passage of bills in the 2015 Utah legislative session that bear on important principles of religious liberty and LGBT rights. Background to same-sex marriage What has happened with non-discrimination legislation What the Utah legislation accomplishes What the legislation does not do Conclusion Answers to basic questions Background to same-sex marriage In the summer of 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States i...

Yesterday I posted news about the LDS Church news release on religious discrimination.  Today Meridian Magazine has much of the same, and also other happenings which show what an alarming thing is happening in our own country.  We pray for religious freedom in our country and all over the world! Rare News Conference: Why Church Leaders are Alarmed about Diminishing Religious Freedom By Maurine Proctor  · January 28, 2015 It is a fairly rare event for the LDS Church to hold a press conference, but Tuesday three Apostles and a member of the General Young Women’s presidency addressed something they consider alarming—the steady erosion of America’s treasured religious freedom and the increasing “tensions and polarization” between advocates of religious freedom and gay rights. What’s at stake is whether millions of people with “diverse backgrounds and different views and values will live together in relative harmony for the foreseeable future” or whether t...

Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 4th, and Sunday, Oct. 5th, we will be watching all 5 sessions of this wonderful Conference.  Thursday, October 02 2014 Mormonism in Pictures: Preparing for the Worldwide General Conference By The LDS Newsroom The   Conference Center   has 21,000 seats; they will be filled five times between the 4th and 5th of October 2014 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ semiannual general conference. More than 100,000 people will experience the worldwide conference from inside the Conference Center — many for the very first time.   Millions of others will watch and listen to the proceedings from overflow facilities on historic Temple Square, in Mormon chapels throughout the world, on television and radio, and from Internet and satellite communications into 190 countries, nations and territories. It takes several hundred people, behind the scenes, to prepare the Conference Center for the...