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...years the government had to prove that it had a "compelling interest" in order to limit religious liberty. That was the basis for outlawing Mormon polygyny and Pentecostal snake-handling. But in a significant 1990 decision holding that Native Americans have no constitutional right to ritual use of peyote, the Supreme Court gave government more leeway to restrict religious practices. A proposed bill to restore the "compelling interest" test has not reached the floor of Congress, but another attempt will be made next year...
...sacred and secular song ever since their wagon trains pulled up to the Great Salt Lake in the summer of 1847. That once small choir soon became one of the world's finest battalion-size forces (325 singers), reason enough for Sony Music to reissue some of the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR'S top hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, sung with...
Thomas H. Hughes '92, a Mormon, also says thatHarvard has provided him with new experiences inrelation to religion. "Like most other orthodoxreligions, Mormonism has a general stance againsthomosexuality," he says...
Parents say that although they were aware of "the Mormon mystique," the stereotype didn't necessarily affect their decision to work with the Rogers...
Nevertheless, says Helen E. Schardt, who hired Turner, "I knew enough to know that these girls would probably be Mormon, a little more clean-cut. Possibly a little more stable than what I had been getting...