James Huntsman files lawsuit accusing
Latter-day Saint Church of fraud
Fox 13 Salt Lake City,
by
Jeff Tavss
&
Spencer Joseph
Original Article
Posted By: mean Gene,
3/25/2021 1:20:24 PM
A member of one of Utah's most prominent families, and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has filed a lawsuit accusing the church of fraud.
James Huntsman says the church spent tithes from members on commercial interests instead of charity, as it was intended.
"This is not a case about faith; it is a case about fraud and corporate greed," the lawsuit reads.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 3/25/2021 1:55:13 PM (No. 734918)
This problem sounds the same as what is going on in the federal government today and will continue the next 4 years.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2021 3:12:13 PM (No. 734973)
This ought to be fun.
I spent three weeks attending a course on computer graphics at Brigham Young University in the early 1980s. The people there were all really super nice, pleasant, smiling Mormons. Yet, somehow, with the news of that time, various bombings to kill people (bomb in newspaper in the driveway) apparently related to internal power/money strife in the Mormon church. There are other things, too. I have always had serious concerns about the upper levels of the church.
Example from the early days: If you have never heard of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, you should look it up. A very well documented case of Mormons massacring 120 people in a wagon train heading for California in covered wagons in the 1850s. Some children were spared, raised Mormon, but never forgot what they saw that day, and eventually one person was convicted and executed long, long after. I have never neard any clear explanations of motive that makes the slightest sense. Apparently the wagon train did nothing at all to deserve it.
The Mormon Church has always made me nervous, but all the Mormon ordinary people that I know and have known have been wonderful people. A bizarre dichotomy that I cannot fully explain.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
raspberry 3/25/2021 3:29:47 PM (No. 735001)
#2, maybe the dichotomy doesn't really exist.
There are viable explanations good enough for most of us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NeverForget 3/25/2021 4:27:52 PM (No. 735061)
#2 -- I will just note that the horrendous Mountain Meadows Massacre took place 164 years ago.
It is perhaps wiser to judge the Church based on your own personal experiences in this lifetime.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mr C 3/25/2021 4:28:53 PM (No. 735063)
The problem he faces will be to prove which Dollar went to starving children, hurrcane victims and other worthy causes v/s which dollar went to 'church holdings' not for profit business etc....unless he gets a group of anit-trump auditors from new york...the paper work will be 2 miles higher than Denver Colorado which is already a mile high!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Laotzu 3/25/2021 5:46:56 PM (No. 735131)
Hey, James. You had me right up until . . .
According to court documents, Huntsman is seeking $5 million in damages. He says he will then take the money and donate it to charities "supporting LGBTQ, African-American, and women’s rights."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/25/2021 5:51:30 PM (No. 735137)
There was a wonderful episode of South Park on mormonism - might be available on youtube - examining the origins of the faith.
Comical as all get out, just by stating the Mormon explanation of its origin.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/25/2021 7:41:14 PM (No. 735223)
These people should talk to Robert Tilton or smiling Joel Osteen if they want to do fraud the right way.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cartcart 3/25/2021 7:55:41 PM (No. 735231)
Maybe I should ask for my donations to the Boy Scouts back. They spend them on legal costs and settlements. Anything I donate to any charity, including the LDS church are voluntarily given, and one they leave my account, I do not decide how they are spent. If I disagree in any way, then I can choose to stop donating. My choice to donate or not. These are usually tax deductible. I take advantage of that benefit.
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Someone should sue for electing Mitt.
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