Mormons Back Bush Middle East Policy

[Juan Rafael Fajardo <fajardos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mormons Back Bush Middle East Policy
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 9:46 p.m. ET

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Mormon church offered support for President
Bush's policy in the Middle East, qualifying remarks by an apostle who
denounced war at a conference of thousands of faithful last weekend.

[...]

Since the sermon, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has
declared its support for Bush, most clearly in a Wednesday editorial in
the church-owned Deseret News.

``Saddam Hussein and the threat he represents to the United States and
her allies will not go away on his own,'' the editorial said. ``This
time, the nation may well have to strike first.''

[...]

Scholars said the church's quick clarification of Nelson's remarks was
unsurprising.

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