Show Letters to the Editor To whom it may concern- concern As a student at I wish to inform you that I found the article Public Opinion or Gods God's Whose hose Matters Most to be not only offensive but also poorly informed I will neither resort to name-calling name or lecturing on faith during my complaints although I wo would ld certainly like to Among the ignorant remarks contained in the article are the writers writer's comments about the complimentary teriyaki chicken dinner which the Church people themselves have rare access to as chicken along with other meat is only seasonally appropriate italics added Seriously As a member of the Church since birth I have never experience any rarity in my access to chicken or any other meat nor am I familiar with ANY acquaintance of mine who has Next the issue of baptism on behalf of the dead was rather poorly addressed Ill I'll not go into detail as this would lead to the aforementioned lecture on faith doctrine which Im I'm trying hying to avoid but I will say that my own understanding of baptism forthe for forthe forthe the dead as well as that of every Church missionary member that Ive I've ever served with or known is the exact same as what Elders Ballard and Cook explained But perhaps the author was mainly interested in using his cute Oscar analogy I think it would obvious to say that the stated plainly accusation that Church leaders feigned revelation to keep tax exemption is offensive to me as well And as for the handshake comment I would however like to make one positive comment I am very happy for the theauthor theauthor theauthor author as its it's apparent that he lie was all too happy to have found a forum for stating each one of his doctrinal and policy disagreements with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter Saints under the cover of an ABC interview and a California proposition I would hope that in the future such poorly informed and libel filled libel journalism wont won't be found in our school paper Thank you James Allen I would like to to make a continent comment on the article written by Jeff Dixon appearing in our schools newspaper on Monday January the entitled Public Opinion or Gods God's Whose Matters Most I would like to start out by asking why outright s slander ander is allowed to be posted in our schools newspaper Its It's fine if you dont don't agree with someone else but publicly stating outright lies with the purpose of degrading another's belief structure is I outrageous i r Possibly my friend mend Jeff did not simply made a few statements that he had heard beard and simply accepted as truth obviously never actually finding out th truth for himself So I hope to set the record straight The first comment made referred to the eating of meat religions dont don't eat pork others dont don't eat beef and others dont don't eat any meat at all You make your statement as if the faith hardly ever eats meat Now our scriptures state that the over excessiveness of meat eating is unhealthy and warned against and that is definitely true But to eat dinner with chicken or beef in it is on average a good six or seven days out of the week and you can add pepperoni in there if you count the pizza Now you bring into discussion about the media blitz That's an easy one You see see with many people writing and publishing false things about the church and its members on TV in books on the radio and in the NEWSPAPER it obviously becomes important to help people see that most of what people may say are in many c cases es outright lies Now if you REALLY want to get into Constitutional Rights Issues that you claim the Church is imposing upon let me just say this Gay Marriage is still up in the air and our country is still debating on whether or not it has do do with our constitutional rights Im I'm pretty sure our founding fathers didn't think that their future generations would actually have that come into question When they wrote our constitution And we wont won't even bring up the fact that the pioneers of the Church were actually refused of their Rights for many years beatings mobs false arrests and imprisonment and other things that you are already aware of and yet you claim that the church is taking away rights Sure Whatever you say man Now the last thing I wanted to mention was this Its It's an outrage to read a school newspaper and find written therein absolute lies about a structure place so white so pure and so peaceful inside Your article read and I quote creepy but since-phased-out since rituals like pretending to slit ones one's throat and belly and swearing not to tell anyone of what happens in the temple on penalty of death I have been all through the temple and can honestly say that I have no clue what in the world you are talking about That phrase I found to be rude cruel unjust and and absolute lie Slander that is all it is All Im I'm saying is that we all have a right to our beliefs and you have to right to publicly tear down my beliefs based on the false information yo you have received Thank you for listening Nathan Mulder Student I Send YOu your YOul l to o the Editor S t ii 4 A to Of or J r w. w If 1 log og O on tolo gl 1 e en enk om f ft t t 1 4 j. j 0 J r I Ir |