The Latter-day Saints are major landowners, and Brigham Young University has a Hawaii campus.
Married, and with five sons, Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Catholic Church sponsor 43% of Scout troops in the country.
One of the blessings of membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the privilege of paying tithing.
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The Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are among scouting's biggest backers, Boy Scouts of America says.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been a major player in organizing and funding a proposition to outlaw same-sex marriage in California.
Even today fully one-quarter of the residents belong to just two denominations, the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The 50-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), was caught near Las Vegas after spending at least two years on the run.
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The commune, whose thousand or so residents are almost all progeny of the male founders, follows the precepts of the breakaway Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints based in Utah.
Petitioner has been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Church) his entire life and has regularly contributed 10% of his monthly income to the Church.
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But the thing that guarantees that Salt Lake City will continue to grow is precisely what built it in the first place: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the largest Boy Scout church sponsor, said it wouldn't comment on the proposed policy change until it has assessed all of its implications.
Mormon men as young as 12 years old can receive offices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' priesthood authority but can't receive the title of priest until at least age 16.
Romney's close ties to the state of Utah, home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led to his hiring as the head of the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002.
"There is no way of getting around its contents, which to many in the Latter-day Saints community will be horrendous, shocking, profane, blasphemous, and something that they will want nothing to do with, " Mr. Ballard said.
But it is perhaps more controversial and noteworthy here because Utah, the home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for years has had some of the nation's most restrictive liquor laws.
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His mother thought that he was hanging around with the wrong crowd, so she sent him to a Mormon youth program, and eventually they both became devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Jeff Foy, manager of training and evaluation for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Employment Resource Services, said traffic has increased to the church's Providentliving Web site, which offers resources on family finances and employment assistance.
The downtown core got a boost with the 2012 opening of the City Creek Center, a shopping mall and mixed-use development of rentals and condos across the street from the Salt Lake Temple, financed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Nor does he explore, in any meaningful way, the contrast between the advance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints around the world as a church of the upwardly mobile and the respectable middle class, and the extremism of the church's American fundamentalists.
The unique service is a joint venture of the Salt Lake Convention and Visitor Bureau, the Utah Travel Council, the 2002 Olympic Visitor Information Coalition, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Travelers Aid Society, and the airlines serving the Salt Lake City International Airport.
Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.
The topic was BYU, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints-sponsored school in Provo, Utah, which aspires to win the soon-to-start NCAA Division 1 basketball championship.
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