[Alex Murphy]

The university explained: "A spelling error appeared in a photo caption in which the word 'apostle' was rendered as 'apostate.' In referring to activities at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last weekend, the caption read in part, 'Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote. . . '.”

[colorcountry]

LOL. There IS a God!

[greyfoxx39]

OOPS! Ping

[Charles Martel]

Wow, that’s an industrial-strength blunder!

[Andyman]

The paper claims it was typo caused by spell check.

The typo was caused by people who don't know how to type or can't spell. The paper's staffs' reliance on spell check was the problem.

[OB1kNOb]

LOL!

[Drango]

We don’t think this error is glib or cute or humorous.

But it is funny!

[B Knotts]

Ouch. So much for relying on spell check instead of editors.

[farmer18th]

Someone’s race to the red seats has been dealt a blow..

[Star Traveler]

The article said — The paper claims it was typo caused by spell check.

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Ummm..., how do they explain all the errors in Mormonism before there was a “spell checker”... LOL...

[Lee N. Field]

Oooopsie.

The kind of mistake I can see myself making very easily, that no spelcheck would ever flag.

(There are other cases where "apostle" has been hijacked by the heterodox.)

[Godzilla]

[chuckles]

Just bury the students at Mountain Meadows and blame the Indians. It worked before.

[TFMcGuire]

I’ll stick with. “Apostates.”

Drop your BOM’s and pick up the Word of God.

[Elsie]

The paper claims it was typo caused by spell check.

That's a LIE!

The words are SPELLED correctly!

(A PROOFREADING error I could accept - not THIS lame excuse!)

[Colofornian]

Apostates

Actually, when you consider how many folks, how many church bodies, and how many church sects that LDS label as "apostates," (see ** below) 'tis obvious they've just got "'apostates' on the brain!"

"I'm an apostate, you're an apostate...wouldn't you like to be an apostate, too? Drink Dr. Koolaid."

** "Christendom" -- as defined by LDS apostle Bruce R. McConkie: “The term applies to the whole body of supposed Christian believers; as now constituted, this body is properly termed APOSTATE Christendom” (Mormon Doctrine, p. 131).

McConkie added: “A perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom.” (p. 132) (So, now we're not only "apostates," but "perverted" and "so-called Christians.")

[Colofornian]

Who wants to go on E-bay to nab one of these that a BYU student is bound to be selling soon? (Perhaps the Flying Inmans could pool their resources to acquire one...after all...the Inmans admire truth-telling -- wherever it's source may be)

(I hope it doesn't become a case like the Hofmann forgeries, though...where the highest church officials were trying to get first nab @ some of these things to bury them in the infamous underground church vault)

[Colofornian]

From the article: Brad Rawlins, chair of the Department of Communications said, “We are reprinting the paper and we will have the corrected version back on the racks by mid-afternoon This shows the deep concern we have on the matter. We don’t think this error is glib or cute or humorous. We understand people will take offense to the error. We ourselves are offended as a department for this error.

No wonder some FREEPER posters are constantly being told by LDS FREEPERS how "offensive" their posts are...seems they're so "offense-happy" that BYU's Communications Department Chair says they even offend themselves!

And here wasn't it the LDS apologists, FAIR, who came up with a Daniel C. Peterson piece called, "Offenders for a Word?" -- trying to make some big case that just because LDS use a distinctive word, it offends Christians?

Well, all these BYU students were doing was to do the same thing Mormons have done for 179 years -- you take a good Christian word and then redefine it 180 degrees! That's been Mormon tradition from the get-go!!! Retrieving all these publication copies & reprinting them? Isn't BYU showing now who's being the "Offenders for a Word?"

[Colofornian]

From the article: “Clearly this is an unacceptable mistake, and we’ll be spending a great deal of time with our students over the next several weeks to carefully examine our review processes,” Department of Communications administrators said in a formal statement.

Translation: "Our hierarchy is not hierarchical enough."

[topcat54]

Since Jos. Smith was the first mormon apostate, it’s only logical that all who follow in his footsteps are also apostates.

[reaganaut]

Ouch, freudian slip?

That is just classic.