Word: mormon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Olympic officials are as corrupt as anyone's" was summarily dismissed. But "Utah: home of that snotty Sundance Film Festival" pleased the Senator greatly. "Robert Redford is a liberal Democrat. What do you expect?" he said. And after we tried to come up with a line about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Senator, afraid of seeming vulgar, wisely said, "I think we had better be careful about the choir." Someone was still feeling burned from bringing up the pubic hair on the Coke can during the Clarence Thomas hearings...
Thank you for the interesting article about the Mormons' returning to Nauvoo to build their temple. You helped portray the unique challenges a small town faces in dealing with its anticipated explosive growth. The local business owners should be grinning all the way to the bank rather than being upset by the influx of Mormon tourists. KEVIN F. SMITH Mesa, Ariz...
...that there were no tensions. Mormon culture, for all its energy and sterling family values, can seem triumphal and even clannish to outsiders. Ken Millard, a Latter-day Saint who is also Nauvoo's city planner, admits that even after a century's exile, some Mormon tourists exhibited "an arrogance and ownership" regarding the town. Main Street merchants traded stories about shoppers who, arriving at the checkout, inquired, "Are you a Saint?" and if the answer was no, walked out, leaving the clerk holding...
They have only gradually begun to realize the implications of the deal. Mormons now own an estimated 32% of the town land. An extension of Brigham Young University sits where there had been a Catholic boarding school. Houses in the Flats once worth $20,000 now go for $250,000, and tax assessments have risen accordingly--longtime residents have every incentive to sell and leave. Meanwhile, temples like Nauvoo's serve as magnets for Mormon retirees, who take up spiritual tasks such as baptizing deceased ancestors of believers. It will take just 900 such immigrants to effect a Mormon majority...
...hard to imagine Millard, the Mormon planner, uttering "place of sin." A worried-looking, bespectacled man provided to the town by the church as part of the temple deal, he is careful to use the word we in discussing the town's future. "We don't want to see change in Nauvoo," he says, "yet there's no way you can stop [it]." This, in a country where change is the secular religion, is an almost unanswerable argument. But Millard gives it the inimitable Mormon spin. "The church believes in unity and harmony, and the official position is to work...