SALT LAKE TRIBUNE -- 02/04/2010 - Brigham Young University and a group of its earth scientists ought to apologize to a state lawmaker and a climate-change contrarian invited to Utah as an expert witness last year, says the Utah Farm Bureau. Randy Parker, chairman of the farm group, said Thursday that BYU paleoclimatologist Summer Rupper and her university owe apologies to Rep. Mike Noel and Roy Spencer of Alabama, the climate researcher the Kanab Republican invited…"Brigham Young University needs to take a step back and evaluate where they are on this," …Both BYU and one of the scientists behind the controversy said Thursday there won't be an apology…Gibson, flanked by Parker, told how Washington proposals to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and begin a cap-and-trade program would Devastate Utah's economy and its Farmers…"What it comes down to is agriculture is being regulated and taxed to death… http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14334331
BYU scientists scold lawmakers over climate change issues
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE -- SATURDAY, November 7, 2009 -- BYU climate scientist led the letter-writing effort. She said participants agreed it was "extremely important" as citizens and scientists to underscore that there is ample and solid evidence that humankind is driving the unusual increase in greenhouse gasses…
Because BYU is a private institution owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its faculty and staff are insulated from legislative pressures that public universities could be subject to…"the movement to address Global Warming as 'the New Religion to Replace Communism.'" http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13733043
UTAH Lawmaker: Climate change just ruse to Control Population
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 02/04/2010 - UTAH House » Panel votes 10-1 for resolution denouncing the science and proposed bill…Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population. The resolution, sent to the House on a 10-1 vote, would urge the Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate the pollution blamed for climate change "until a full and independent investigation of the climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated."..."We're at the breaking point," said Rep. Kerry Gibson, the resolution's sponsor, who warned that the supply of safe and affordable Food is already threatened by over-regulation.
Eleven Brigham Young University scientists defended climate science in a point-by-point rebuttal to parts of the resolution and urged the panel in an e-mail to reject the measure…Both BYU and one of the scientists involved indicated Thursday there
won't be an apology…The Kanab Republican, referring to Holdren as the Obama administration's "energy czar," read from passages of the 1,000-plus-page tome about
population-control alternatives that included abortion and forced sterilization. He did not share the authors' conclusion: that voluntary population-limiting methods are "a far better choice."
"Now, if you can't see a connection [of a conspiracy] to that," the legislator said, "you're absolutely blind to what is going on. This is absolutely -- in my mind, this is in fact a conspiracy to limit population not only in this country but across the globe." http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14337716?source=most_viewed
LDS CHURCH JOINED THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION TO
REDUCE WORLD POPULATION:
October 25, 2012 --
Asked what he thought about the fact that more American soldiers commit suicide than are killed in combat, host Morgan said it was “shocking,” but Turner responded, “No, I think it’s good.”
Turner went on to argue that it was time for people to start acting “enlightened” and that this was why it was “good” U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in such large numbers because it shows an aversion to war.
At first, Turner smirked and appeared as if he was about to say it’s “terrific” that U.S. soldiers are killing themselves, before using the word “good” instead and adopting a sterner facial expression. Turner was also asked by the host who he thought should replace the United States as the world’s policeman, to which he responded, “the United Nations.”
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal,” Turner stated in 1996.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ted-turner-i-think-its-good-u-s-troops-are-killing-themselves.html
THE UNITED NATIONS FOOD PROGRAM:
Abortion = Not Murder:
LDS
Embryo Research Separates LDS
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE -- Thursday, August 9, 2001
Debate in the U.S. Senate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research reveals a deep divide in personal religious beliefs and the theology of when life begins.
The five senators who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all have come out in favor of spending federal money to study whether cells taken from embryos in the first stages of development can be used to cure such problems as heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes.
The Mormon senators' stand is controversial because the collection of these cells would require thedestruction of excess embryos produced at fertility clinics…The Mormon senators "have helped move the debate away from right-to-life absolutism without sacrificing pro-life theology.
…"There is No Direct Revelationupon the subject of when the spirit enters the body," (LDS) church spokesman Dale Bills said this week.
…Church leaders have not said whether this joining of spirit and body occurs at conception or sometime later in the development of the fetus.
On the issue of embryonic stem cell research, LDS Church leaders issued a statement last month saying they had no position but added the idea "merits cautious scrutiny."
…Catholic Church, said the church's position on this issue has been consistent since at least the 1300s.
"Life begins when life begins, and that is at the moment when an ovum is fertilized with a sperm," said Cummings. "We are not left with the concept that something is there which might become a person, but a person is there in the process of becoming." Catholics have no objection to research using stem cells collected from the placenta, umbilical cord or from adults, Cummings said, but the embryo is "sacred" and must not be destroyed.
Many Jews also believe life begins when the egg is fertilized, said J. David Bleich, a rabbi and professor of Jewish law and ethics at Yeshiva University in New York City…The rabbi said the federal government should not finance work in which embryos are destroyed to collect stem cells. "The government has no business funding things that are morally offensive to huge sectors of society," he said.
http://www.sltrib.com/08092001/utah/120844.htm
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Aug2001/DigestofStemCellArticles.html
Someone should point this out to the LDS church: "BEFORE I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah 1:5
LDS Church
No Stance on Evolution
No definitive LDS stance on evolution
Deseret Morning News --Wednesday, March 1, 2006
OREM — Despite characterizations by some Latter-day Saints that their theology eschews the theory of evolution, two LDS scientists say their church has no definitive position on whether humans evolved from earlier life forms. William Evenson and Duane Jeffery told dozens of people gathered at Utah Valley State College on Tuesday that what definitely has evolved over time is the position taken by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the issue.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/print/635188399/No-definitive-LDS-stance-on-evolution-study-finds.html
Churches built up for gain:
23 For the time speedily
shall come that all churches which are built up to get gain, and all those who
are built up to get power over the flesh, and those who are built up to become
popular in the eyes of the world, and those who seek the lusts of the flesh and
the things of the world, and to do all manner of iniquity; yea, in fine, all
those who belong to the kingdom of the devil are they who need fear, and
tremble, and quake; they are those who must be brought low in the dust; they
are those who must be consumed as stubble; and this is according to the words
of the prophet.
1st Nephi 22:23Jesus spoke against the Church Leaders
http://bookofmormonspeaks.blogspot.com/2011/08/jesus-spoke-against-church-leaders.html