LDS Church Targeting Continues In Wake Of Prop. 8
 
Reported by: Rod Decker
KUTV 2News
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LDS church protestors

Hundreds of people gather outside the LDS temple in Salt Lake City to protest the church's involvement in Prop 8.

Attacks on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continue in the wake of Proposition 8. The producers of South Park, a cartoon on TV, say they will bring a satirical musical to Broadway early next year called "Mormon Musical." They say they already have a script.

One episode of the cartoon on TV already satirized Mormons, and included a song: "Joseph Smith he was a prophet, dum dum dum dum dum."

A story Monday in the Los Angeles Times said the LDS Church "feels the heat" over Proposition 8.

The story cited Professor Jan Shipps, a leading scholar of Mormonism. She said the Church image rode high after the successful 2002 Olympic Games.

But Mitt Romney's Mormonism proved a drawback during his run for the Presidency.

When Texas lawmen raided the FLDS "Yearning for Zion" compound near El Dorado, and illegally seized all the children, many people over the world confused the FLDS and the LDS, and the Mormon image was further harmed.

Dr. Shipps predicts the fallout from Proposition 8 may harm the LDS missionary effort, and retard the Church's growth.
 
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Originally broadcast November 18, 2008
 
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