Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: January 29, 2014 01:33PM
So I was Googling and I came across this.
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/30068525/"Mormon Discrimination Charged SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-A $400,000. lawsuit alleging sex and religious discrimination by the Mormon Church and its LDS Business College has been filed by a former woman employee. Mary J. Larsen of Salt Lake City charges that she was "dropped from e m p l o y m e n t due to reports that contained information that her faith and church activity were inadequate." LDS Business College is operated by the Corporation of the First Presidency, the corporate umbrella for all business enterprises of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). The lawsuit also alleges that women employes are subjected to scrutiny and investigation of their personal lives and that women employes are paid less then male employes. The plaintiff, who said she has a master's degree from the University of Utah and was employed at LDS Business College from Sept. 1970, to Sept. 1973, asks for damages for invasion of privacy, slander and damage to reputation and infliction of emotional distress. Named as defendants are the college, its president, Ferris R. K i r k h a m ; Neal Maxwell, church commissoner of education; Utah Gov. Calvin L. Hampton; Atty. Gen. Vernon Romney; the Corporation of the First Presidency and Stati Industrial Commissioner John R. Schone. The suit asks that federal •funds be withheld from the college and the Corporation of the First Presidency until the alleged discrimination ceases. The suit is the second discrimination action in recent weeks against organizations related to the Mormon Church. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has filed suit alleging racial discrimination in Boy Scout troops sponsored by the church"
So, I wanted to find out more and found this.
http://www.leagle.com/decision/19801459499FSupp960_11344And I can't make heads or tails of it, but in searching the Judge who died, I found a book about him that looks interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Over-Zion-Willis-Ritter/dp/0874808766So if anyone knows anything about this case or what happened or what this is actually saying, please get out your bar-passing Urim and Thummim and please let me know it.
http://www.leagle.com/decision/19801459499FSupp960_11344