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...this attention has caught even Grey by surprise. His national coalition has barely any funds beyond small scattered donations from its 2,500 members, a $10,000 contribution from the Mormon Church to set up an 800 phone number, and Grey's own $3,000-a-month stipend from the Methodist Church. NCALG's new Washington office, in a back room of the National Council of Churches, is staffed by volunteers. "We're up against a multibillion-dollar industry," says Grey. "And we're beating them with housewives and dentists." The movement's strength lies in such groups as Virginians...
Under the Federal Equal Access Act, the school cannot discriminate against a club on the basis of its beliefs. The 70-percent Mormon community, represented by the school board, condemns homosexual acts. Rather than allow one club that disagrees with the beliefs of the majority, the school board has banned them...
...rebel than Pat. After getting her master's degree in mathematics and working on Nixon's re-election committee, she was so disillusioned by Watergate that she upped and moved to Australia. When she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married a Mormon lawyer in 1982, her devoutly Roman Catholic father refused to attend the wedding--as did his dutiful third son Patrick. Her divorce was equally sacrilegious...
Evans, 33, a former advertising executive in Salt Lake City, Utah, wrote the story in 1992 as a gift for his two daughters. A devout Mormon, he credits divine guidance at 4 a.m. for revealing the book's structure (a boon that should make him the envy of the entire writing community), and his work does bear a resemblance to the Christian fiction that has been a flourishing publishing genre in the past few years. In the book Richard, a young Salt Lake City man, and his wife move in with Mary, a luminous and wealthy old woman, who houses...
...Mormon community is just much more liberal in the Northeast," Ulrich says. "I'm really not so strange here...