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LDS spokesman Scott Trotter emphasized that Packer's speech was consistent with the church's longtime position.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays Clay Chiles 2010

Packer's words "are an anomaly in the parade of statements coming out of the (LDS) church," said Carol Lynn Pearson, a Mormon writer in northern California who has worked to make gays feel welcome in the Mormon church.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays Clay Chiles 2010

It wasn't the substance of Packer's speech on Sunday (Oct. 3), and no one expected the senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to revise the church's stance.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays Clay Chiles 2010

LDS spokesman Scott Trotter emphasized that Packer's speech was consistent with the church's longtime position.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Packer's words "are an anomaly in the parade of statements coming out of the (LDS) church," said Carol Lynn Pearson, a Mormon writer in northern California who has worked to make gays feel welcome in the Mormon church.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays Clay Chiles 2010

It wasn't the substance of Packer's speech on Sunday (Oct. 3), and no one expected the senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to revise the church's stance.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Adrieen Packer's Las Vegas Review-Journal article, headlined “Lawyer defends Bybee's actions in context of 9/11” (Apr 29, 2009), features Judge Bybee's top fan:

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As for its own content, Scott talks up Paper Giants – a mini-series dramatisation of the early days of the launch of Australian women's magazine Cleo by Kerry Packer's company in the early 1970s.

ABC director general Mark Scott gives his perspective on the BBC's travails 2011

The decision to publish and promote Packer's essay is comparable to parents showing up in the wee hours of a loud party and ordering the kids to turn down the music before the neighbors call the cops.

John Feffer: The Confederacy of Cupidity John Feffer 2011

What bothered many, they say, was the style of his presentation that left them feeling Packer's views were at odds with the more nuanced and compassionate recent statements by other leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mormons Divided On LDS Apostle's Speech On Gays Clay Chiles 2010