Calm

I have seen very few, they were former Fundamentalist Evangelicals and likely carried their distrust of our faith and habits of argument from their previous faith.

Just double checking because I am spacing if you mentioned it before (brain is offline today), is this your work hat or a hat you keep for dress up?

People are creating conspiracies primarily because of the politics around it. Either they want more drama, more reason to be outraged or they don’t want the kid to be the shooter. Or they are drumming up traffic to their stuff to make money, get famous…pretty selfish reasons to mess with people, imo. It is not respectful to Kirk, imo. It is not a good thing to encourage by publicizing it, imo. If Tyler Robinson actually denies shooting Charlie Kirk and he and his roommate both say the texts between them are fake, then is the time to start looking for another shooter imo. And why wouldn’t either or both of them have spoken up before now? Even if Robinson was crazy enough to confess when innocent, his partner would unlikely be backing him. And the text info gives significant detail. And everyone around Robinson, even his parents, are apparently accepting him as a shooter now even if shocked when first confronted by it.

Clumping everyone who labels certain groups racists into one group is not more helpful than lumping FLDS with LDS. The Left is hardly monolithic in ideology or behaviour even if terminology at times is shared. The Left treating the Right as monolithic is no more accurate, though I am more aware of variation on the right then the left (because I tend to be more interested in the positions of the Left than the Right so I pay more attention to them looking to see if there are reasonable solutions presented).

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5424445/supreme-court-catholic-charities-wisconsin-unemployment-compensation Anyone with info on the case? It seems odd that religious groups don’t have to pay unemployment tax to me. Is the rationale no taxes at all can be required? Seems like religious groups could opt out of paying SS in general as well and not just as individual or organization conscientious objectors*** since the unemployment tax is for covering unemployment government benefits and I don’t see much difference with retirement benefits. Are there any safeguards included to ensure the employee gets enough income to pay for insurance for unemployment or retirement themselves if they want to? ***this info is from a quick search as I had no relevant knowledge on the subject. What, if anything, is absolutely required from religious organizations to the government money wise?

For those thinking or planning on attending this year, early bird pricing is good till May 1st (sorry for being a bit slow getting this up here, missed it completely last year iirc). We have gone back to two days to make it easier to attend, but have multiple tracks (if I understand correctly) to cover the large number of topics. I don’t have any other details yet…you may want to use social media as the more efficient way to track announcements. https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference https://www.facebook.com/fairlatterdaysaints/posts/pfbid02jbEZ5CfmoX56hZqSGaLVyxVQfq4FQEV4ZNhn25PyxXFrhTBsXPLNcHiRzKz5gjfGl https://www.instagram.com/valiantconference/p/C5pIh17xYcB/?img_index=1

https://www.kcra.com/article/idaho-mormon-church-child-sex-abuse-claims/46022043 https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-investigation-child-sex-abuse-4db829616a5c5cfa351a2e95d778ae9e This is from the reporter who wasn’t great with details from the Adams case, so I would urge caution until we have other confirming sources. Lights out for me, so dissection comes tomorrow…though thinking Smac and others will get there first.

Jury selection for the first trial has started. No cameras in court. These are the two top reporters on this Imo, been devoting lots of up close attention from the beginning… Justin Lum (Arizona) is providing details here; https://m.facebook.com/jlumfox10 day one: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02T3B9DtxDNgRyHzUKhqpBKpWRdCimVok7jMNSrQ8JPtSzD8zm7dv4zn1PLz2BkW8Nl&id=100044424966565 Eaat Idaho News (usually Nate Eaton) here: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/04/jury-selection-begins-on-first-day-of-lori-vallow-daybell-murder-trial-day-one/