Church's Role in City Creek Criticized
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  A candidate for Salt Lake City mayor is questioning whether The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints belongs in the downtown renovation business.
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By Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 13--Steve Rainey clearly wasn't happy that his plan for luxury homes was the test case for the new panel reviewing developments near Big Darby Creek.
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  The third anchor store at the LDS Church's proposed City Creek Center is still a mystery, but a church representative on Wednesday let slip a name: Dillard's.
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It was called Holy City, but it was not exactly a model of Christian piety. It was, rather, a commune and tourist trap created in the 1920s by a white-supremacist huckster.
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An Anglican church council report that criticized the US Episcopal Church for installing a gay bishop went beyond what some local pastors had hoped for.
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This election year has seen unprecedented outreach to churches by the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns, and intensified political activity by the religious groups themselves. But some watchdogs for separation of church and state are concerned that congregations are violating the federal tax code, which restricts the political activities of certain nonprofits, including churches.
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By Andrew Edwards, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Sep. 12--HIGHLAND -- The debate that City Council members are expected to  hear tonight won't be a matter of church versus state.
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An Anglican commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the Americans to apologize.
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By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN, STAFF WRITER  Oakland residents and officials spoke against a composting facility on Wednesday, contending it could pollute a nearby well and that its location in the Ramapo River's flood plain would endanger areas downstream.
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By April Bethea, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--Protestors this morning apparently stayed away from a Gastonia church that had been publicly criticized recently for a blackface performance.
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By JAMES MINTON  ST. FRANCISVILLE - The owners of four tracts for a proposed large- scale development near Lake Rosemound joined Thursday in a lawsuit attacking the project.  A hearing is scheduled Jan. 3 in the lawsuit that adjoining landowners James D. and Laurel B.
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The inclusion of prayers calling for conversions has led to sharp criticism of the Vatican.
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By Joe Rodriguez, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 7--Many Wichita-area religious leaders are stepping up their  campaign to share their casino opposition with their congregations and the  community.
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Christian groups go after Crest, Tide due to company&#39;s opposition to Cincinnati anti-gay statute. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Conservative Christian groups are urging a boycott of two of consumer product maker
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  Trash is to blame for a political tug-of-war among members of the Salt Lake County Council and the mayor.
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By Kelly Marshall Fuller, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 22--GEORGETOWN -- A plan to build condominiums on Church Street was returned to the city Planning Commission Thursday after Georgetown City Council members questioned the numerous changes developers made to the project.
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A liberal church that has been threatened with the loss of its tax-exempt status over an anti-war sermon delivered just days before the 2004 presidential election said Thursday it will fight an IRS order to turn over documents on the matter.