Posted on 03/24/2008 8:20:54 PM PDT by kellynla
A criminal investigation focusing on three Mormon missionaries who were photographed defacing a Catholic shrine has been dropped after the Catholic bishop in the San Luis Valley of Colorado where the incident happened urged forgiveness.
According to reports in the Denver Post and the Pueblo Chieftain, the three missionaries had been shown in photos posted on the Internet at the Shrine of the Mexican Martyrs at the Chapel of All Saints on a butte overlooking the town of San Luis.
The photographs were taken in 2006 and showed the men preaching from the Book of Mormon at the shrine's altar, pretending to offer sacrifices at the site, and holding a head that apparently had been broken off a statue there.
The newspaper reports said Costilla County sheriff's investigator Cpl. Scott Powell said the investigation had just gotten under way when Bishop Arthur Tafoyo wrote him a letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
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Ah yes, the old ‘forgiveness’ BS.
Disgusting.
I don’t have a problem forgiving them BUT I am verrrrrrry surprised that they’re Mormons???
WorldNutDaily? Mormon vandals? I call BS.
Last I heard, it hadn’t been established that these sorry excuses for missionaries had actually damaged anything. The head of the statute was apparently set back on the statue when they left and nobody noticed anything was wrong with it until the photos of their disrespectful behavior at the shrine turned up. IOW, the head may have been broken off the statue long before the missionaries got there. It’s a lot easier to picture young Mormon missionaries just getting carried away with some thoughtless horsing around, than to picture them breaking the head off a previously intact statue at a religious shrine.
Would this be the “Hooligan” branch of the LDS? Every denomination has one.
"This is the time that we can show our love of Christ by forgiving and loving our neighbors," he wrote.
In a letter to the Chieftain, Tafoya said Mormon church officials had contacted him with an apology for the damage. The church's earlier apology letter, issued shortly after the vandalism was discovered, said respect for other faiths is a "cardinal tenet" for them.
Mormon officials said they would impose their own punishment on the three.
Mormon missionaries allegedly damage Colorado Catholic shrine
I’d fully expect that their missionaire supervisor will be dealing with them appropriately if the authorities won’t. And I’d be looking for some major recompense between the two entities.
My issue with the forgiveness is this. I am sick of people overlooking crime because of religion. Any religion.
Forgive them yes, but throw them in the slammer for a while too.
“WorldNutDaily? Mormon vandals? I call BS.”
“BS?”
Maybe you should do a little research on a subject before you come on one of my threads and “break wind.” LMAO
This story has been thoroughly covered in the Denver Post and the Pueblo Chieftain.
Um Mormons can commit crimes too!
Somebody is spreading false tales but it's not a good conservative site like Worldnetdaily.
Future BYU students at work....
(Go Utes!) :)
Interesting read:
More information on what happened.
Mormons’ Valley Vandal Issue Points to Deeper Woes”
Christian Piatt
March 15, 2008
http://www.chieftain.com/print.php?article=/life/1205560800/7
They are taught that all religions other than theirs is false. They are out to convert all they can. I doubt they have much respect for other religious shrines.
“Last I heard, it hadn’t been established that these sorry excuses for missionaries had actually damaged anything?”
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“Somebody is spreading false tales?”
And just what “false tales” are those?
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