LDS Church planning new temple in Phoenix - Salt Lake Tribune

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The Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter-day Saints Saturday announced programs to construct a new temple in Phoenix, marking the 3rd new temple announced for Grand Canyon State in less than a month. The two temples now in Grand Canyon State are in Mesa and Snowflake. On April 28, the Christian church announced two new temples will be built in Gilbert, in the Capital Of Arizona subway area, and in Gila River Valley, in the eastern portion of the state. There now are 140 LDS temples in operation, under building or planned worldwide, according to a Christian church news release. - Howard Lindsay WhitehurstAdvertisement

Where religious liberty ends - Salt Lake Tribune

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For more than than a century and a half, Americans have got seen polygyny from a distance and through a filter of silence. But in recent years, the position have go more than distinct: a oracle in prison, jailhouse footing for work force who get married underage women, a preciseness foray on a spread in West Texas. And this is where the societal imperative mood of protecting the immature and the vulnerable collides with the constitutional warrant of freedom of religion. This past week, the foray on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado, Texas, have once again brought polygyny into focus, especially among people and legal experts who've studied the phenomenon for years. Marci William Rowan Hamilton is frankly aghast it had not happened sooner. "Nobody's had the backbone to make what Lone-Star State government did," said Hamilton, a church-state scholar and lawyer who dwells in the City Of Brotherly Love area. "We so often disregard what's happening to children in spiritual communities . . . finally a grouping of government realized they couldn't allow it travel on any more."
She have a history with abused children, particularly the sexual assault victims of priests or ministers, and she have no forbearance for those who reason that the liberty and privateness of grownups is more than than of import than protecting children. "There's an American inclination to have on rose-colored glasses when it come ups to faith . Advertisement

Walsh: Cutler branded SLC with religion - Salt Lake Tribune

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Roger Cutler always called back. Even when he was huffy - as he often was with me - he still returned the call. He could be hostile, argumentative and arch with reporters, City Council members and even, occasionally, the public. But he never forgot that the taxpayers signed his paycheck. He was a public servant's public servant. Now, after 40 old age as the legal encephalon of first Salt Lake City and later West Jordan, Cutler is retiring to function a legal-services missionary post in Federal Republic Of Germany for The Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter-day Saints. It must experience like coming home. Former Mayor Deedee Corradini names him "one of the best, if not the best, metropolis lawyers ever." Cutler wishes to tout his attempts to make clean up Salt Lake City's reddish visible visible light district, his work keeping light railing on Main Street and his function in drafting Olympic legal documents. But I believe his most permanent bequest will be two lawsuits that defined his calling and branded his metropolis with religion: one, a lawsuit challenging City Council members' pattern of praying before their meetings, and the other, Salt Lake City's sale to the LDS Church of one block of Main Street and the public's liberate address rights. In 1991, the Society of Separationists and two local taxpayers sued Salt Lake City to halt supplications before authorities meetings, arguing the spiritual Advertisement