Matthew j eyring biography of barack obama

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  • WASHINGTON — For five months of the Obama administration, the highest-ranking Mormon in the White House was an unpaid intern.

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    or, Please Don&#;t Accuse Me of Being Theodore Parker Incarnate

    Whenever I attend panels or professional conferences that are about religious toleration—such as the wonderful conference the Newport Historical Society recently hosted to mark the th anniversary of Rhode Island&#;s charter (The Spectacle of Toleration)—I am usually struck by the way scholars who don&#;t specialize in American Catholic history speak about the anti-Catholicism that characterized American life in the nineteenth century.

    &#;It was clearly wrong&#; is the message that is almost always conveyed—implicitly for the most part, but sometimes even overtly. The religious leaders and politicians who railed against the evils of popery and warned of the dire consequences that would develop if immigrants who had been &#;educated under the despotic governments of Catholic Europe&#; were allowed to &#;settle down upon the unoccupied territory of the West&#; were obviously religious bigo

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    Complicated but not hostile, LDS-Obama relationship draws to a close

    WASHINGTON — For fem months of the Obama administration, the highest-ranking Mormon in the White House was an unpaid intern.

    It was a staggering nedgång for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    Dwight Eisenhower had church Elder Ezra Taft Benson in his Cabinet. Lyndon Johnson considered church President David O. McKay a close friend and spiritual adviser. Prominent Mormon George Romney was a member of Richard Nixon's cabinet. Ronald Reagan had two Mormons in his Cabinet and three who served on his personal vit House personal. Brent Scowcroft was the national säkerhet adviser for Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. Mike Leavitt served in George W. Bush's Cabinet.

    So when LDS historian Greg Prince looked back this week on his daughter's internship in the Obama White House, he thought it was an apt metaphor for a good part of the relationship between the LDS Church and President Barack Obama

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    Mormon leader: Obama's immigration plan matches LDS values

    Mormon leader says the president's outline matches the church's values; Utah delegation in Congress rejects plan.

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    Jeremy Harmon | The Salt Lake Tribune President Thomas S. Monson is flanked by his counselors, Henry B. Eyring and Dieter F. Uc

    Jeremy Harmon | The Salt Lake Tribune President Thomas S. Monson is flanked by his counselors, Henry B. Eyring and Dieter F. Uchtdorf, arrives at conference during a congregational hymn during the st Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 1, Monson announced a number of new temples including the repurposing of the Provo Tabernacle as a temple.

    By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune

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