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On the 20th and 21st, last week, Ryan and I drove down to Salt Lake City in Utah to stay with Bill McKeever of mrm.org. Bill, with several of his friends, along with Ryan and I, attended the Manti pageant. It is an event were Mormons gather to watch a pageant put on by the Mormon church. Basically, it is a public play where actors recount the means by which the "gospel was restored." I watched it and it is a blatant misrepresentation of the state of the Christian church in the early 1800s. The play represents Christianity as a...

Tornado Hits Manti MANTI, Utah (AP) _ A tornado tore through this central Utah town Sunday afternoon, destroying houses, uprooting trees and bringing down power lines. The tornado destroyed six houses and damaged two dozen others, said Sanpete County sheriff's Lt. Rick Howe, who estimated damage at $1 million. "No one got hurt," said Peter Case, an emergency management technician. "A lot of people were in church." Residents reported seeing the funnel cloud touch down at 1:50 p.m. City Manager Bill Nicholson declared a state of emergency and he and Gary Vetterly, a state emergency officials, said it appeared to...