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I got a chuckle out of this. Apparently a guy in the UK is suing President Monson for fraud on the behalf of two ex-LDS members.
Disaffected British Mormon taking LDS prophet to court | The Salt Lake Tribune
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n Friday, a district judge in Westminster Magistrates Court of London issued a summons to Monson, considered a "prophet, seer and revelator" in the 15 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to appear March 14 to answer the charges. And Phillips expects to see the 86-year-old Mormon leader in court unless Monson "pleads guilty."
"This is a serious matter," Phillips said Wednesday in a phone interview. "If President Monson believes in the Book of Mormon, he will show up. If he has any concern for Mormons in Britain, he will show up. And if he doesnt show up, then an arrest warrant will be issued."
British legal scholars "expressed bewilderment at the summonses, saying British law precludes challenges to theological beliefs in secular courts," according to a story in The Arizona Republic.
"Im sitting here with an open mouth," Neil Addison, a former crown prosecutor and author on religious freedom told The Republic. "I think the British courts will recoil in horror. This is just using the law to make a show, an anti-Mormon point. And Im frankly shocked that a magistrate has issued it."
Disaffected British Mormon taking LDS prophet to court | The Salt Lake Tribune
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