BYU

Shoddy Journalism and Controversy Bandwagoneering

The local press has been quite excited lately with the latest Utah Valley controversy: Dick Cheney’s planned commencement speech at the upcoming BYU graduation. Hoping to garner some attention of her own, SLTrib columnist Rebecca Walsh decided to jump on the controversy bandwagon and fling mud. Her article titled “Church shows true color – red” makes a plethora of unfounded accusations and unsubstantiated explanations. In a nutshell, Walsh claims that Cheney’s invite to speak at BYU flies in the face of previous statements of political neutrality. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got...

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Mormon university reopens its gates after 6 years

Six years after Brigham Young University closed its Jerusalem campus because of concerns over terrorism, 44 Mormon students from Salt Lake City, Utah, arrived Wednesday to study for a semester in the capital. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post...

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Welcome to LDSNewsWatch

For about a year now, I have been collecting and tracking news articles about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA the Mormon Church). I use various online resources to find and track these articles. Over the last year, I have found some very interesting things. As you can imagine, there have been plenty of articles on polygamy and in those articles there’s been plenty of intermingling of the LDS Church and various polygamist sects, which causes confusion. One headline read: “Mormon Leader Arrested on Child Sex Charges” and “Mormon Prophet Told Followers He’d Never...

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