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News Media Put LDS at Center Stage
The Salt Lake Tribune ^
| 2/28/2002
| PEGGY FLETCHER STACK
Posted on 02/28/2002 12:37:16 PM PST by Utah Girl
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Boy, the LDS PR department sure is smart, making sure all those reporters call on the LDS church leaders, and not on leaders of other faiths in SLC. And Hank Stuever, of the Washington Post, said in one of his columns that the Salt Lake Temple and Temple Square was on TV much more than Bob Costas was. And that the decision by the LDS church to stay in the background and not proselytize during the Olympics was a devious plot to make us look better in contrast to the many groups who gave out religious literature. And Stack's last paragraph makes me laugh. Of course the LDS church is going to point out those inaccuracies. Don't we have the right to that. I'm off to ldschurch.org to see what they are...
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posted on
02/28/2002 12:37:16 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: olympics list; Tis The Time''s Plague; Pete-R-Bilt; Excuse_My_Bellicosity; Technocrat; Lokibob...
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posted on
02/28/2002 12:38:19 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: Utah Girl
"Blessed are the peacemakers," Utah Girl.
INCOMING!!!!!! ];~)
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posted on
02/28/2002 12:46:24 PM PST
by
tracer
To: Utah Girl
I also really like how it has ticked off the anti's so much. They have their shorts in such a knot that they throw verbal temper tantrumns and show how silly they are. They will find if much harder to get people to buy into the junk the spew.
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:03:23 PM PST
by
Grig
To: Utah Girl
What is funny is that no one could walk ten feet in downtown Salt Lake without being approached by leafletters from other religions. No lie. I walked directly across the street from my office on the day of the opening ceremonies, and was approached by no fewer than four people wanting to give me the same leaflet.
To: tracer
Hmmmm, I can't find the corrections to the inaccurate news articles that Peggy Fletcher Stack was referring to. I've searched all over lds.org too...
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:05:19 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: lady lawyer
When I went up to see 'Light of the World' last week, I came home with a handful of literature. I accepted all of it that was put in my hands. Threw it away after I leafed through it...
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:07:04 PM PST
by
Utah Girl
To: Utah Girl;*LDS_list
To: Utah Girl
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:08:05 PM PST
by
The Chid
To: Grig
I also think some are upset and disappointed that we kept our word not to proselytize. They were sure all those tempting targets of thousands of potential converts would sway us.
To: The Chid
Thank you! My research skills are poor, I'm still over there looking.
To: Utah Girl
After the first one, I politely told the rest that I already had the literature. The stuff I was given was not the anti-Mormon stuff, it was inoffensive, general Christian proselytizing material. Some of it looked quite expensive. It think it was the Baptists who were handing out complete copies of the New Testament. I told them I already had several copies and wished them well. It is a good thing if they can put the New Testament in the hands of those who don't have one.
To: Utah Girl
Go to "News Media Resources", and then in the upper right side, you'll see "Corrections and Clairfications". That's it.
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:14:56 PM PST
by
The Chid
To: Utah Girl
Just curious: Was the "child of light" an LDS idea?
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:19:10 PM PST
by
CCWoody
To: Grig; Utah Girl
I'm still receiving FReepmails from one die-hard who continues to attempt to regale and horrify with still more of his new-found "terrible secrets" about the Church obtained from from his "contacts" who are ex-"Mormons," Church members, or "friends" of the Church who are not members thereof.
Given the the quantity and intensity of the vitriol thrown at us and the ultimate source of such hatred and falsehood, it would appear that, as we know, things are progressing inevitably well in accordance with our Heavenly Father's plan...
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:19:15 PM PST
by
tracer
To: CCWoody
No, it wasn't. Don Mischer of Hollywood fame put together the opening ceremonies, apparently the child of light theme is one that has been used in varying ways for many of the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in years past. I think the theme could be taken on different levels though. I had one FReeper tell me that it was a pagan theme...
To: tracer
I got one too. Didn't bother to respond. That kind of anger just isn't normal.
To: tracer
Me too. I politely asked them to cease and desist because I wasn't going to answer back or even read future FReep mails from them.
To: tracer
Let me guess. Stuff from the Tanners, Ed Decker, and the other "usual suspects?"
That kind of thing made me give up trying to respond at all on the LDS threads. It got to be too time consuming after a while. I mostly just read the article now, and ignore everything after about fifteen or twenty posts.
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posted on
02/28/2002 1:37:34 PM PST
by
The Chid
To: The Chid
Yea, verily. This is sadly ironic in light of the fact that all of the LDSFReepers that I know do not bash anyone's religious beliefs and often defend them against bashers.
Apart from their putative desire (which I do not "buy" as being the truth) to protect us and others from the Church's "evil" doctrine, what possible motive remains? Ignorance at best, or just plain evil, I believe....
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02/28/2002 2:01:07 PM PST
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