A Hawaiian Mormon Boy Scout troop and ward bishop have gotten themselves in the crossfire of an environmental battle over a new "superferry."The state is going to decide whether three Oahu men, including an LDS bishop, should each be fined over $3,000 for allegedly stealing rocks from a beach conservation district for an underground cooking pit at their ward.
Land and Natural Resource officers say the men tried to haul the coconut-sized rocks in pickup trucks on board the controversial Hawaii Superferry from Maui to the LDS Kahaluu Ward.
One of the men told officers:We do this for the Mormon church. Our bishop told us to come to Maui to get imu [river] rocks . . . . We use the rocks to cook kalua pig for the Boy Scouts to support them through our fundraisers. It was for a good cause.
A larceny of 1,000 rocks might have passed unnoticed by the news media had it not come on the Hawaii Superferry's second day of service. Critics of the ferry say it confirms what they feared: The service would allow Oahu residents to raid rocks, fish and opihi, a prized delicacy, from neighbor islands.
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"The Church" steals "Souls" worldwide, who cares about a few "Rocks".
It's so nice to wake up to anti-LDS bigotry, Anonymouse!
Granted, what they were doing was wrong, however, don't native Hawaiian's have some claim to their land? The people don't see the rocks as someone elses, my impression is that they just saw rocks that were on their island.
Since they do it in the name of the LDS church, then I guess it's alright. That includes all the other idiotic, hairbrained, insulting and ridiculous things they do in the name of the church.
Thank God/Darwin for the Salt Lake Tribune.
If there's a Mormon screwing up somewhere in the world, Warchol will let us know about it.
But don't expect Warchol to let us know if there is a Mormon out there doing something right because that just wouldn't be news.
Glen,
I hear there was a Mormon kid in Baton Rouge who was just accepted at BYU and whose dad is a stake president, and the kid was caught shoplifting beer. Better jump on that one pronto!
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