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Show Page A2 THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HaATheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Wednesday, December 11, 2002 Obituaries, More on A6, AI'O dissident LBS intellectuals say Michc!!s Lcvc!l excommunications will continue By PATTY IIENETZ gyptologist Ed Ashment sympathizes with Washington anthropologist Thomas W. Murphy, who for now has escaped excommunication from the LDS Church. But Ashment, a fellow member of the church, said he was disgusted1 witfr" those who publicly protested the church action at a rally for Murphy on Salt Lake City's Main Street plaza Sunday night. "The church is a voluntary organization," Ashment said. "If one speaks out in a way the organization feels is unacceptable, the church has every right to ask them to leave." A former coordinator of translation services for The Church of Jesus Christ of - Ed Ashment, under LDS ecclesiastical - that American Indians are descendants of ancient Israelite families. Janice Allred, a housewife and mother of nine, excommunicated in May Sun-stone- y explore challenge But scholars; who and sometimes LDS doctrine. historian Lavina Ash- ry Lovell. Michelle grew up in had been attending college at UVSC in Orem. member of the . Michelle was a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. She loved to read, ride and play with her nephews and niece. She is survived by her parents of Nephi; her brothers, Brandon (Karen) Lovell of Spanish Fork, Utah, and Brett Lovell of Nephi, Utah; her sisters, Kristine (Dan) Nielson of Nephi, Utah, and Lovell, of Nephi, Utah; her grandparents, Dan and Madeliene Johnson of Nephi, Utah. She is also survived by a lot of good friends. Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 13, 2002, at 12:00 in the Nephi Utah Stake Center, 351 North 100 West. Family and friends may call Thursday from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Nephi Utah Stake Center, and from 10:30 until 11:45 a.m..prior to the funeral. Interment in the Vine Bluff Cemetery Nephi, Utah. Funeral Directors, Anderson Funeral Home. s, Nic-ho- Police Beat VICTIM IDENTIFIED The Highway Patrol has released the name of the person who died in Monday's collision on Inter- state 15. The victim was identified as Michelle Lovell, 18, of Nephi. The crash stopped traffic for northbound on about two hours as police responded to the accident and conducted their investigation, which was still continuing Tuesday. The incident also caused another crash in the southbound lanes of the 1-- MULTIPLE CRASHES From about 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday the Utah Highway Patrol reported 11 crashes on Interstate 15, most happening between mile marker 273 and 278. Only three of the crashes had serious injuries, and two people were transported to local hospitals, said Sgt. Doug McCleve, UHP spokesman. The majority of crashes were related, as a driver would come upon a previous crash and be unable to slow down in time to avoid it, McCleve said. 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Associated Press Writer LDS Church members believe proxy baptisms give those in the afterlife the option of joining the SALT LAKE CITY -- LDS Church leaders met with the chairman of a SALT LAKE CITY It's primarily Jewish organization in religion. intended to offer salvation New York City on Tuesday , to the ancestors of church to discuss an apparent ; members, but many others breach of the faith's agreeare included in the ritual. ment not to practice proxy Baptisms for the dead baptisms for Jewish Holo- are performed inside LDS caust victims. with a church In 1995, The Church of temples, member being immersed Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y in water in place of the Saints promised to stop deceased person. Names of conducting posthumous the deceased are gathered baptisms for Holocaust by church members from other genealogy records as well victims and deceased Jews. as death and governmenLDS leaders requested tal from documents the meeting with Ernest around the world. W. Michel, chairman of the "For Latter-da- y Saints, World Gathering of Jewish the practice of proxy bapHolocaust Survivors who tism is a means rf expresshelped broker the 1995 ing love and concern for with the those who have proceeded agreement said church us. It is a freewill offer- stop performing proxy church, spokesman Dale Bills. ing," Bills said. baptisms for Holocaust j - - Before the meeting, Michel called the discussion preliminary. Numerous calls to his office on were not Tuesday returned. In a statement, the church said the meeting At Tuesday's meeting, Michel met with LDS leaders Monte Brough, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, and D. Todd Christofferson, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy. from collecting payroll deductions from workers for ; political action committees. But the state and labor unions both claimed victory with conflicting interpretations of the decision by 3rd District Judge Stephen Henriod. The law, which prevents employees from voluntarily authorizing a payroll deduction for political activity by unions and others, violates free expression, Henriod said. It also violates the U.S. Constitution by impairing labor contracts that provide for PAC deductions, he said in a summary of his decision. But elsewhere in the opinion, Henriod said the Contributions Voluntary Act "does not significantly impinge on any First Amendment rights." He also found it didn't violate the clause of the 14th Amendment. A state attorney and a 15-pa- victims. "It's insensitive and arrogant," Hier said. "If these people did not contact the Mormons themselves, the adage should be: Don't call me, I'll call you. With the greatest of respect to them, we do not -A district judge appears to have struck down the Utah law prohibiting governments and school districts due-proce- organizations. These rela- tionships are amicable and mutually beneficial," of whom died in Nazi con- who centration camps had proxy baptisms per j L ,,Lrm 1 . . ..... . .$11.20 .$8.00 advance) .... .$131.05 .$26.00 .$144.00 $158.00 .$201.00 $252.00 'Holiday delivery includes delivery the week of Easter, Memorial, Independence, Pioneer, Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Yearis. contracts? could not authorize the payroll deductions, For new subscriptions, restarts, home delivery information, or billing information, call weekdays from 6:00 a m. to 5:30 phasing out the practice. "We're delighted the court has upheld key prpvi1 sions of the Voluntary Contributions Act," said Paul Burke, an outside attorney representing the state. "The Legislature passed the act" to protect Utah's public employees from coercion and keep governments out of the business of collecting political contributions. The court found these to be legitimate and constitutional goals," he said. Not so, insisted unions. "The heart of it, he struck down," said Fred Van Der Veur, executive director of Utah Public Employees Association. "The state still has a car, but no engine." k national Independent researcher Henriod said ruled Helen Radkey, who pre- think they are the exclugroup law unconstitutional the for who of is sive a arbitrators Michel, pared report come. is certain the agreement saved." only for existing labor pacts "The church works dilihas been broken. In her gently to maintain good research of the church's genealogical faith, cooperative relation- extensive "WE SELL THE BEST AND ships with a number of database, she found at some Jewish genealogical least 20,000 Jews with Michel was "positive and productive" but did not elaborate on the out- . S.50 $1.50 Guaranteed delivery: Your newspaper should arrive by 6:00 am, Monday through Saturday, 7:00 am. Sunday. If you do not receive your 3 paper, please call by 9:00 a.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. on weekends. Delivery is guaranteed deductions. Under this interpretation, new labor ss , tin stance) Sunday onlyflJT, ID, WY) All other states) Sunday only( Seven days (UT, ID, WY) . , Seven days (AH other states) that provide for political By PAUL FOY Associated Press Writer . , Daily and Sunday Sunday, Thursday & Holidays Both sides claim victory in 3rd District payroll decision formed for them after they died, she said. "There shouldn't be one single death camp record in those files," Radkey said. been has Radkey researching Jews included in the LDS databases since 1999, when she found Anne Frank and her extended family listed as having had vicarious baptisms performed for them. Also among those for whom the church has performed proxy baptism, according to Radkey's research: Ghengis Khan, Joan of Arc, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Buddha. Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said the LDS Church needs to rein in its members if it is serious about its pledge to berjldeilncom dhnevisiri one-on-on- e. the Environmental Impact Statement, a study s of the highway from not FAX U.S. 6 LDS Church, Jewish leaders discuss proxy baptisms for Holocaust victims Bills said in a written 84603-071- 7 wwnJOIarkTneHerald.com Mail, in U.S.A. By C.G.WALLACE Nephi, She graduated from Juab High School in May 2002, where she was a cheerleader and a member of the drill team. She was also a member of the track team. She 8:30-9:3- self-publish- ment will join the ranks of other dissidents stripped of their LDS Church membership after the sudden, public 1993 purge of six LDS scholars who questioned church doctrine. Since others then, excommunicated include: David Wright, a professor of Hebrew studies and the Bible at Brandeis University, excommunicated in April 1994 for articles asserting the Book of Mormon was a creation of church founder Joseph Smith. Michael Barrett, assistant general counsel for the CIA, excommunicated in 1994 for disobedience after writing letters to editors of several newspapers correcting news stories about Mormonism. Brent Metcalfe, editor of the anthology "New Approaches to the Book of Mormon," published by Signature Books in Salt Lake City, also in 1994. Metcalfe also edited "American Apocrypha," which included the article in which Murphy used genetic research to challenge the Book of Mormon doctrine Lovell, age 18, of Nephi, Utah, died Dec. 9, y' 2002, in Orem, Utah, from injuries sustained in an auto accident. She was born Feb. 6, 1984, in Provo, Utah, to Gordon Nixon Lovell and Annette Johnson 6-- ,- n, cated for publishing articles that : assert church founder Joseph Smith fabricated key LDS texts he said were translations of ancient scriptures. 19jth-centu- toward investigation Fielding Anderson,; among those excommunicated in 1997 for submitting papers 1993 for her feminist studon her personal studies of ies of church teachings, theological topics at a sym- says that's untrue. "What has been differposium organized by a journal of LDS ent is that excommunica tions have . been pursued ideas and scholarship. Margaret Toscano, a only when it looked as if classics professor at the there would be an acceptably low punishment-to-publicit- y University of Utah, excomwritratio," she said. municated in 2000 for "It's for hard me not to see after feminist issues on ing this as a pattern ... part of being told not to. Her husband, Paul, was one of a larger witchhunt against those excommunicated in independent scholars." Sunstone magazine edi1993. tor Dan Wotherspoon said Shane LeGrande Whe-lahave author of "More Than church leaders One: Plural Marriage, A assumed that people they A decided to excommunicate Sacred Heritage, Promise For Tomorrow," would go quietly. But now excommunicated Aug. 11 they are finding that some are likely to seek attention. for refusing to stop marAt first, Shane Whelan his keting book. His wife, Rhonda, was quiet about his excomwho researched the book, munication. He and his wife were was disfellowshipped two in the church, servactive weeks later. She has since ing as stake missionaries. divorced him. They believed what they A disfellowshipped wrote was a respectful hischurch member retains tory of the doctrine and cerloses but membership tain privileges of member- practice of polygamy as a ship, such as being able to fundamental tenet of the go into the temple or serve church, Whelan said. "I had no idea we were a church calling. Rhonda Whelan didn't running a risk because we promoting respond to a telephone weren't (polygamy)," Shane Wherequest for an interview. The "Church Handbook lan said. "I'm a mainor was." of Instructions," a guide for stream Mormon The church in 1890 lay LDS clergy, says a disciplinary council must be banned polygamy; those held if there is evidence a who practice it aren't member has committed allowed in the church. Murphy, a resident of murder, incest, child abuse or apostasy that is, pub- Lynnwood, Wash., is a doclicly opposed the church, toral candidate at the Uniits leaders or teachings. versity of Washington and Church spokesman Dale chairman of the Edmonds Bills said disciplinary deciCollege anthropology sions are made by local department. He was schedleaders. Disciplinary coun- uled for a church disciplicils are considered a necesnary court hearing this on in repentance past Sunday, and he sary step the way back to full church expected to be excommunicated for apostasy. membership. The .hearing was postSome have suggested that, under current church poned indefinitely because B. of widespread publicity, Gordon President Hinckley, the church has said Matthew Latimer, become more forgiving Murphy's stake president. Latter-daSaints, Ashment isn't just preaching. He, too, is under ecclesiastical investigation and expects to be excommuni- If that happens, She is survived by husband Fred of Centerfield; children, Albert Fred (Gina) Grant Jr. of Grant, 62, affecknow Indianola, Jesse Travis Grant of tionately Wells, Konnie Kim (Glen) Harward as "Aunt Neon" of Salina. Kyle Ray (Lori) Grant of and "Grandma Shana" quietly Payson, Joshua Owens (Ashley) Grant of Orem; 11 grandchildren; left this world sisters, one to join family, friends and her' Myma (Jim) Surowiec, Elizabeth (Howard) McOmber, Aletta Father in Heaven on December 10, 2002. She was Hansen, Alaina (Dennis) Anderborn August 8, 1940 in Heyburn, f son; brother, Lance Jay Rasjr mussen; and 21 nieces and Idaho to Jesse Alma and Alice ! nephews that she treated as her. Lapreal Davis Rasmussen. She married the love of her life, own. Preceded in death by her parAlbert Fred Grant Sr. on January V ents and a daughter, Launa Lee ' Grant. 24, 1958 in Pocatello, Idaho. The , Funeral services will be held on marriage was Solemnized in the v Salt take LDS Temple, January 'Saturday, December 14, 2002 at 10 a.m. in the Fayette LDS Ward 24, 1964. She lived an exampliary life, filled with a Christ like loving Chapel, where friends may call service to everyone she came in Friday evening from 8 and again 0 a.m. en Saturday from contact with. She was "Grandma Burial will be in the Centerfield Shana" to every child in Center-fielShe was a friend and confi- .Cemetery. Funeral Directors, Magleby-Jense- n Mortuary of Salident She had a firm testimony of na and Gunnison. the gospel which she lived to the In Lieu of flowers, the family fullest with love, charity and treasures Her suggests contributions be made to humility. greatest were her husband "Freddy" and Primary Children's Hospital in Shana'sname. her children. Rasmussen organization. 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