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Mormon fire-knife dancer awes in 'Sin City'

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michaelm | 11:26 a.m. Oct. 13, 2009
I know lots of performers and stage craft people not to mention the many CPA's and lawyers employed in the casinos that are active members of the church. It's part of living in the world but not taking part in it sometimes.

When I was home form a mission I worked a couple of years in a job that had me back stage and in the underground and back ways of most of the major hotels. After a week or two you get used to some of the things you see and it becomes no big deal unless you let it.

Not much different than many of the strange things I'd see working in S.F. either fro that matter. Perhaps worse in S.F. than in L.V. from sex acts to drug deals, from parading naked gays to nude bike races S.F. is just as much if not more so a Sin city where members of the church happen to live and work too.
kenny | 1:23 p.m. Oct. 13, 2009
Articles like this may encourage others to make good choices when faced with the possibilities of right or wrong.I remember working in the French Quarter in New Orleans and over hearing a man from Utah(he had a name badge on)say that it was good to get away from home so he could sin a little.I was working in a party store and sold him a 6 pack of beer.I did not tell him I was a member of the church but thinking back I wish I had done so.I often thought about what his responce would have been.
Anonymous | 3:03 p.m. Oct. 13, 2009
Hey kenny,

Not everyone from Utah is LDS. There are non-LDS people here who drink beer!

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Craig L. Moran, Las Vegas Review Journal

Fo'i Tuitama rehearses the Samoan fire-knife dance in the pool area at the Imperial Palace hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Tuitama, who is a construction worker by day, performs three nights a week from May through September as part of the Hawaiian Luau Polynesian revue at the casino.

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