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Show The Salt Lake Tribune RELIGION Saturday, January 23, 1999 Utah Hindus to Unveil Atheist Leader’s Diaries to Be Their Dream Tonight Sold to Pay Debts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — In public, Plans for proposed Riverton temple go on display Madalyn Murray O’Hair waged BY PEGGY FLETCHER STACK ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Utah's signature red sandstone has long adorned manybuildings and homes,but soon it also may grace a proposed Hindu temple. The shrine’s Hindu architect, Selvam Rajavelu of Salt Lake City, has combined colors and ma- terials native to Utah with the architecture andtraditions of India. Rajavelu’s design will be unveiled tonight at a fund-raising dinnerat 5:30 p.m. at Clayton In- termediate School (1471 S. 1800 East)in Salt Lake City. If all goes well, the state’s Hindu community will raise enough moneyto begin buildingits first suchshrine. Over 31% years, the community has accumulated about $100,000 in cash and commitments, but needsat least $450,000 for the land andinitial buildings. Once they have 90 percentof the funding, the LDS Churchhas pledged holy war against organized religion. In private, she wrestled with her ambitions and worries over to kick in $25,000. “This effort is sureto be vitalin preserving, enhancing and maintaining Hindu identity in this area,” says Shyamala Chivukula, the templepresident. The temple board also invites support from the entire Salt Lake Valley community. The Hindu community made an offer on a piece of propertyin Riverton, conditional upon raising enough money. The owners have moneyand love. Three years after the nation’s foremost atheist vanished in a still-unsolved mystery, her dia- ries are scheduled to be auctioned off today to pay off creditors and back taxes. The four decades of thoughts, written by hand on 2,000 pages, open a windowinto the mind efa woman who won the 1963 Supreme Court case barring prayer given the group until Feb. 14 to come upwithit. For the past few years, more in public schools. O’Hair wrote often about mon- than 300 Hindu families have been meeting in the South Jordan homeof Indra and “Neel” Neelameggham. Many Hindus cometo the Neelameggham home almost weekly for services and ceremonies. Suchactivities help pass Hindu traditions on to the children and build solidarity in the community. Still, the Hindu families yearn for a larger place for worship. The shrine will combine materials native to Utah with the architecture andtraditionsof india. The temple project was launched in 1995. Local Hindus decided the temple would be namedthe Sri Ganesha Temple of Utah and acquired the Ganesha statue that one day will find a homethere. Lord Ganesha, an elephantfaced Hindu deity, is revered for his great wisdom and invoked first before any undertaking. Hin- dus believe that Ganesha knows each soul’s karma and the path that leads to successful action. Pontiff to call on Catholics of North, South and Central America to join in ‘a new evangelization.’ RELIGION NEWS SERVICE Pope John Pau!II arrived in MexicoCity Friday afternoon, bearing his agenda for the Roman Catholic Church in the Amerieas in the coming millennium. The pope’s plane touched down shortly after 4 p.m. ESTto begin a six-day trip that will also take him to St. Louis for two days, including a meeting with PresidentClinton. His first act following the formalities of his airport welcomewasto sign late Friday afternoon a “post-synodal apostolic exhortation” — the papal responseto the deliberations of the bishops of the Americas. who met at the Vatican in late 1997 to preparefor the year 2000. Tn the document, to be made public today, the pontiff will call on Catholics of North, South and Central America to join in “a new evangelization.” The call is re- flected in the theme ofhis visil — “A new faith.” As the pontiff left Rome early Friday, the Vatican said the pope will seek to un- derlinethe unity of a region made up of manynations with diverse cultures and languages. He will attack the excesses of con- sumerism and the abuses of economic globalization, narcotics trafficking and the arms trade and deplore the suffering of street children, immigrants. members of minority groups subject to prejudice, ab- original and indigenouspeople,the old, the ill, the abandoned and the unemployed. Although Catholics make up 95 percent of Mexico’s population of 96 million people, church-state relations were severely strained for 125 years, starting with President Benito Juarez's Laws of Reform in 1857, which outlawedreligious orders, sequestered church holdings and began forcing the church underground. Mexico and the Vatican established ful! diplomatic relations only in 1992 after the governmentagreed to recognizethe church as a legalentity. A throng of well-wishers, waving small white and yellow papal flags andred, yellow and green Mexican flags, clapped, cheered and chanted “the whole world loves John Paul” as the aging and frail pope emerged from his plane, and slowly walked downthestairs. Anissue of great concern to the pope — as it was to the 200 bishops who attended the Special Assembly of the Synodof Bishops for America which this trip brings to a formal end — is the inroads that Pentecos- tals and Protestant evangelicals are mak- ing among Hispanic Catholics throughout the hemisphere. In his airport remarks, John Paul seemedto underscorethat concern, saying itis “not possible. . to understand Mexico without the faith brought from Spain to these lands.” dycase that maytake the chureh’spro-life stance into newlegal territory — the pro- tectionoffertilized eggs a woman wantsto keep but her former husband wants de- stroyed The Catholic Charities organization of the Archdiocese of Mobile announced Deborah Cahill and Patrick D. Cahill of Saraland, Ala., married in 1993. Deborah Cahill wasinfertile. In 1995 doctors stimulated her ovaries and implanted her husband’s sperm into her fallopian tubes, fertilizing six eggs. Three zygotes immediately were re- Hallett Jr. of Mobile, said he has been workingon the case pro bono, butthe Catholic Charities money will help with costs The Rev. Paul Zoghby, director of the could have custody of the cells that remained after her fertilization procedure. The ruling was seen asa victory for Patrick of the fertilized eggs. Deborah Cahill, 43, said in August she wanted to be impregnated with the frozen “They arenot just things... They have souls,” ArchbishopOscar H. Lipscombsaid zygotes. “There's no way I want her having my children. I certainly don't trust her to run off with my cells,” Patrick Cahill, 37, told the court in August. Deborah Cahill's attorney, Lawrence J. movedand frozen. Deborah Cahill carried Thursdayit has contributed $2,000 toward the legal costs of the Jacksonville, Fla woman's court battle to retrieve zygotes stored in a cryogenic lab Cahill BULLETIN BOARD Compiled by Amelia Platt BAPTIST ‘The interdenominational singles’ ministry, Catholic Charities Appeal, said the dona- tion to Hallett’s work is simply an “adjunct” to the pro-life counseling that the agency already supports, PopeJohn PaulII has denouncedin vitro fertilization and hormonaltreatments on post-menopausal women andhas called for an end to the production of frozen embry os, equating their destruction to abortion. 3900 South, Salt information, call 277-9412 Lake City {olladay Baptist Church presents So- prano Tami Ham, performing in morning wor ship, Sunday, 10:45 a.m., at the church, 2780 E 3900 South, Salt LakeCity. For moreinforma- tion, call 277-94 The Holladay Baptist Church pastor, Rodger S. Russell, continueshis series with the topic “A Church Empowers Individuals,” Sun. day, 10:45 a.m., at the church, 2780 100 South, Salt Lake City, For moreinformation, call 277-9412 @ TheHolladay Baptist Churchis sponsoring a 13-week programfor couples to learn how to make their marriages stronger and how to de @ Continued from B-1 The Cottonwood Presbyterian Church pre sents speaker and Utah historian, Jack Tykal Sunday, 9:30 a.m., at the church, 1580 E. Vine St., Salt Lake City. For moreinformation, call 278-4619 — archives of American Atheists neys of the RomanRota, the church's court of appeals for marriage annulments, at the start of the judicial year, the pope expressed strong concern over “a widespread deterioration of the naturalandreligious sense of marriage.” John Paul said he wasissuing a warning that condoning same-sex Ine. “It is horrible they are being sold to the public,” said Ellen Johnson. “Can you imagine how upsetting it would be to know someone had your personal marriages threatened basic principles of society and “the dignity of every person” not just to Christians but to “all persons concerned with ideas?” Those included O'Hair's ambitions: “I want money and power and I am goingtogetit. By age 50, 1 want a $60,000 home, a Cadillac car, a mink coat, a cook, a housekeeper. In 1974,I will run for the governor of Texas and in 1976, the president of the United States.” urally produce children “according to the project inscribed by God in his structure of the humanbeing.” LDS Church Plans New Temple in Fresno,Calif. is that the union of two people of the samesex cannotresult in “that interpersonal completenessthat the Creator desired, as muchon the physicalbiological plane as on that [which is} eminently psychological, between the planned for the Fresno, Calif., area. The temple, thelatestin a series of smaller temples announced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Another obstacle, John Paulsaid, manand the woman.” “It is only in the union between two persons sexually diverse that the per- fection of the individual can be ac- complished in a synthesis of unity andof mutual psycho-physical completeness,” the popesaid. — Religion News Service The LDS Church announced Fri- day that a new temple is being Latter-day Saints, will serve ap- proximately 22,000 church mem- bers. Construction will begin as soon as a site can be approved. LDStemplesare usedby faithful members of the church for baptisms and other sacred rituals focusing on the eternal potential of family r . TACTa Latter Day Saints number about 250,000; members havegrownto about 10 million In 1860, at the ageof 16, JosephIII agreedto lead the RLDS Church, which was in competition with the LDS Church led by Brigham Young in Ute PRESBYTERIAN over those organizations said the auction is an invasion of privacy, and she vowedto buy them forthe Addressing the judges and attor- polygamy,” Averysaid Today, members of the Reorganized Church of The Central Christian Church will holdasin: gles seminar, Growing With Style and G) Friday, 7 p.m., at the chureh, 370 300 Salt Lake City, For more information, call 3 5559. The Church Women United will have its Registration is $1. For moreinformation, call for back taxes. Her back taxes and other debts totaled more than $256,000. The woman who now presides theology, and that of Brigham Young's Mormonsin although they deniedthatit included polygamy Church, 3280 E. 3900 South, Salt Lake City. ease. The Internal Revenue Service seized her homeand possessions ogy that involved temple ceremonies and embraced MISCELLANEOUS 272-0665. ing from diabetes and heart dis- the West [the LDS Church] that established a theol- David Hyrum Smith was born in 1844 in Nauvoo. Ill, five months after his father, Joseph Smith, and his uncle, Hyrum, wereassassinated, David worked with his brothers — Joseph Smith III and Alexander — to carry on their father's work in the church, annual meeting with speakers on Friday, 1 p.m., at the Mount Olympus Presbyterian founded. She was 77 and suffer- had introducedit, and arguedfor reason in a religion based on revelation, Avery said. Hewas a most fascinating individual in his own right — charismatic andbrilliant — who becamean emissary between the Midwest ‘Mormons’ (the RLDS Church] who were arguing for a more mainstream p.m., at the church, 2780 E. 3900 South, Salt Lake City, Cost is $6.95 for the book. For more several atheist organizations she polygamy even as he cameto realize thathis father of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints informationandregistration, call 277-6070. more than $600,000 from one of rere him “Sweet Singer of Israel.’ At the same time, David dabbled in seances and Spiritualism, challenged the Utah Mormons about velop ministry partnerships, starting Feb, 3 and meeting every Wednesday until May5, 7 “We eat what we like, do what welike, like whom we want and gripe and beathell,” she noted in Book Illuminates Troubled Life of David H. Smith Salt Lake AfterDark, will celebrateits second birthday Tuesday, 7 p.m., at Holladay Baptist VATICAN CITY — Pope John PaulII attacked same-sex marriages Thursdayas ‘‘deviations from natural laws” and said attempts to justify them distorted the true meaning of human liberty. sex,” because such unions cannotnat- triplets, who were born prematurely. A boy survived. In 1998 the couple divorced. Mobile County Circuit Judge Rosemary deJuan Chambers ruled in November that neither Deborah Cahill nor her ex-husband Pope Calls Same-Sex Unions ‘Deviations’ That Threaten Society true human progress.” The pope called it “incongruous” to try “to attribute a ‘conjugal’ reality to the union of persons of the same Archdiocese Enters Legal Fray Over Custody of Zygotes BY KRISTEN CAMPBELL RELIGION NEWS SERVICE MOBILE, Ala. — The RomanCatholic Church herehas thrownitself into a custo- Each individual shrine will be built according to Hindu traditions. somewhere, love me.”” Most ofien, she was the fiery woman whorarely lost an argumentoran interview. a volumefrom theearly 1959s. O’Hair, her son and her granddaughter vanished in 1995. There were allegations that they took Pope Brings Agenda for New Millennium to Mexico millennium is born; let us reaffirm the Inaddition to Ganesha,the temple will have ‘‘six or seven idols, dependingon what the community needs,” Chivukula says. ey problems and sometimesabout her desire for poweror political office. At least a half-dozentimes, sometimes set off in a separate box, she pleaded: “Somebody, The rivalry between the two factions was ,-eat, Avery writes, pitting leaders and believe one another to see who wouldlead the LI in the decadesafter Joseph Smith's death Avery, former president of the Mormon History Association, first learned of David Hyrum Smith when she co-authored in 1984 Mormon Enigma, a biography of Emma Hale Smith, David's story in trigued her and she knew she wanted to delve into it further ‘Theirony of all this is that this is the story that's never been written,” said Avery, noting that both Jake Hacon/Arizona Daily Sun ValeenTippetts Avery is shelved between her twohistorical works on the Mormonfaith. The Northern Arizona University professor's latest book covers the youngestson of Joseph Smith co-author Linda King Newell from speaking about said Avery. “Interestingly, David's letters to Charley any topic having to do with Mormonhistory in any venuebelonging to the Mormon Church, are all preserved, but every single one of Charley's The ban of Avery and Newell from the church tripled the sales of their book. Avery discovered the existence of David during research on his mother and used thebasic collection to write her doctoral dissertation. But she had to wait until the death in 1995 of David's grandson for the release of the bulk of personal correspondence relating to David to complete her book in David's letters and diary she found out more about his wife, Clara, and their child, She also Jearned more about his relationship with his friend sides of the church blamed the other for the onset of Charles Jensen, “wholoved himas a friend andper. David's insanity. haps beyondfriendship,” writes Avery in From Mis Mormon Enigmaoffended the leadershipof the LDS Mormon Church for taking a nontraditional view of Joseph Smith, and leaders banned Avery and sion to Madness ‘The letters revealed an extraordinary friendship that was the defining association of this man’s life,” has been destroyed.” Avery said From Mission to Madness is meaningful forits contributionto religious history but also becauseit studies a 19th-century family's response to mental illness, She said David was fortunate because some mental-health care reform already had begunat the timeof his institutionalization. Avery said she does not expect anyofficial re- sponse to her book from the leaders of the LDS Church, but she thinks the Mormon peoplewill re spondtoit muchasthey did to Mormon Enigma “Thestory will spread mouth to mouth, andthey will probably find it compelling and captivating,” shesaid. “Weareall interested in stories of people, but this is a most unusual one, It was one of those irresistible accounts and you say to yourself, ‘Why do we not know about this?’ ! POOR |
