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The Mormon church probably has already scrambled a few squadrons of its vaunted public relations specialists to polish over what threatens to be an unpleasant image problem.
The Costilla County, Colo., sheriff is pursuing criminal charges against three LDS missionaries for antics at a Catholic shrine and church. Possible charges include desecration of a venerated object, criminal trespass, defacing property and, ouch, bias-motivated crime.
Members of the Sangre de Christo parish found photos on the Internet showing the missionaries apparently vandalizing a local shrine of the Mexican Martyrs and mocking the Catholic faith in the parish's church in 2006.
Speaking of image, the LDS church released the official portrait of its leaders, a.k.a. the First Presidency: Thomas S. Monson, Henry B. Eyring and Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
2 Comments:
Glen,
It is Uchtdorf, not Uchtdorg as your wrote. That will teach you not to blog at 6:19 in the morning right after day light savings time! I hope these "elders" have been excommunicated for embarrasing the LDS church and themselves. Hopefully this will teach more missionaries to focus on service rather than playing tourist.
Playing tourist? These guys weren't playing tourist, they were defacing a religious shrine that is very important to its local community. They showed to the community how Mormons feel about the rest of the population.
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