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Faithful journey: Colorado students explore religions along Wasatch Front

"But the Beehive State's diversity is not only real but is growing, fed by acts of openness among people who worship in very different ways."

It's true. From the first Eastern white settlers here, 1847, people of many faiths (and none at all) were welcomed in the communities by the Great Salt Lake.

Together they built Methodist and Jewish houses of worship surprisingly early in "Deseret's" history, as well as stores marketing products not used by the majority population, but tolerated as free people are wont to do.

This tour should be manditory for every member of the LDS church. If all you have ever seen is blue, you will never know green. The Father talks to all people in different ways, if you listen to only one of his voices then you only hear part of his message. Missing almost every othere word of a message is no message at all. Maybe that's the message our leaders want us to hear, nothing.

Thanks for preaching to the LDS. Perhaps you should listen more closely yourself to the messages acknowledging the truth and virtue in all religions and non-religious views. It's there if you would only listen.

Karma,

"From the first Eastern white settlers here, 1847, people of many faiths (and none at all) were welcomed in the communities by the Great Salt Lake."

I think the word "welcomed" is a bit strong. Brigham Young invented a special emblem that LDS merchants were to display so that Mormons could do business with Mormons. They were very discriminatory against non-Mormons in every possible way. The journals of my non-Mormon ancestors contain very shocking accounts of how they were anything BUT "welcomed" in the Salt Lake valley!

I think the LDS church was just sick and tired of the way the rest of the world had treated them. Discrimination was a soft description of the way the LDS people had been treated for years before moving to Utah. I am also sure that after the shell-shocked members were finally left alone, they began to open their arms to others outside the church.

Never mind that the pastors got their members to chase out those bad Mormons from all those loving southern states. Interesting how we never hear about that. I have yet to see any big screen movies about how the Mormons got chased, raped, robbed, yelled at from all those states.
Oh yea.

To "YesRay" and JohnnyGreen"

Oh, OK. then that makes it OK, doesn't it!?

Do you people actually READ the Bible and the Teachings of Jesus?

Didn't think so...