the religious right is suspicious of mormons. he has been able to thread that quite well because he talks -- he gives his testimony in a generic sense. he is very fluent in the 12 step language. he is compelling to a broader audience. i have noticed he has ways that he speaks. i wrote a whole chapter on the white horse prophecy which is rather obscure mormon prophesy not even mainstream for mormonism but goes back 150 years or so to the founder of the face his said there will come a time when the constitution is hanging by a friend and the leaders of the mormon church and others will save the nation. this has been passed through generations in the church and if you look at the glen beck when he had or and hatch on the show, the constitution is hanging by a friend. hatch says the constitution is hanging by a thread. people who are familiar know exactly what they're talking about but nobody else here is anything but the constitution is hanging by a thread. it is almost certainly not going to happen but also the works of a world gov

conklin, how do the mormons overall, to your knowledge, regard having beck as one of their number. >> that's a good question. and i'm careful here to say when were talking about the white horse prophecy or klingon scout, were not talking about mainstream mormonism, were talking about a subset of it. i have looked into this a good bit and he has caused some discomfort among the latter-day saints because they believe that a lot of people believe it will cause the whole faith to be viewed as a little bit sort of wacky and out there. some people even suggest to me that this is a problem for mitt romney, who is by all accounts a mainstream character, but they're going to say my goodness, does he believe these crazy things that one back is talking about each night? and of course mitt romney like everybody else is going to be under pressure to get the unofficial beck endorsement. so it didn't get as -- there's some discomfort in that, but also beck has appeared to be huge, i don't know if there reliables, but when he talks about his recovery from alcoholism and his love of the mormon church

he even went door-to-door with mormon missionaries.ted little things such as parki plas fofirst time visitor he also learned more about his own tradition by discovering the beliefs and practices of christians. >> i grew up in the heart of bible belt in atlanta, georgia, one of eight children, the son of an orthodox rabbi. i'm the only one that didn't go into the family business. they are all rabbis or married rabbis. i was always jealous. i grew up across the street from a methodist church, and literally my bedroom window looked out at the church parking lot, and every sunday morning i would see it was packed, and living in the bible belt there are churches on every street corner. and the parking lots are full every week. maybe i could gro to church, not to convert to christianity. i wasn't interested in that. i wanted to go to find out what got people excited about worship. or what got people excited about their religion. maybe i could tap into the spirituality and find out the secret i was never taught growing up, and maybe i could b

. >>> the mormon church now says same-sex attraction is normal.major about-face from its previous doctrine. the church has formally removed same-sex attraction from the church's list of sins. it also for the first time does not require those who feel such attraction to seek professional counseling. the human rights camp pain pressured the church of latter day saints on this issue. there's problems there but the church still calls homosexuality a violation of god's commandment. >> unfortunately, the mormon church continues to put homosexuality in the same category as murder, forcible rape and sexual assault. there's more the mormon church has to do in order to correct the wrongs. specifically to gay and lesbian people, the message they send are that they're lesser than. we certainly applaud them for removing repairatory therapy from their handbook. they still have an awful long way to go in order to be in keeping with the mainstream of american society and what should be responsible church teachings. >> basically what they're saying is that the fee

know if there reliables, but when he talks about his recovery from alcoholism and his love of the mormon church. so there's two sides of that relationship as well. >> where the question right there. >> said to's rally seemed rather subdued to his television show. was that intentional? is he setting up something on the left insane i'm not that bad, but this rally. >> no, you're correct that it was very different from his message, but it was for very practical reasons and that was the event was being run by a nonprofit that takes care of the families of wounded or fallen troops. so if he had gone out there and giving his usual message, that charity would have it status in jeopardy. sobek is -- and i think i mean this in a good way is really an opportunist. so here are the constraints he has. what could be due? and he turned it into this very powerful sort of religious moment where people were asking that question a few days after comment is glenn beck the new leader of the religious right? that's not going to happen because mormonism as we discussed, she was able to turn this limitation --

. >> bret: he is also a mormon and thought religion might hurt him with voters but not true according to the polls. >> mormonism won't stop romney being president. >> what could hurt him with the conservative voter is his position on abortion. >> i've been personally pro-life. i taught it to others. part of my faith. question for me is what should government do in this setting? >> as an adult, romney changed his position on abortion, not once but twice. >> republicans didn't see him as authentic. they didn't know who is he. is she a conservative? hod rate? >> my friend, your senator, marco rubio. >> brings us to romney's relationship with the tea party movement. he did endorse marco rubio of florida. unlike rives sarah palin and jim demint, romney did not jump in early to endorse the anti-establishment candidates such as christine o'donnell or sharron angle. unlike many washington republicans he did not gripe between the tea party candidates won the primaries. instead, he wrote them big checks. >> i want to make sure we're using our energy and all of our breath to get republicans elec

i havei have i am a mormon, thia faith. just ask a mormon.g you can, it will be crazy. barbara, tell me about super seniors. because, you know, the one thing that really bothers me is that seniors are retiring. stop retiring and get involved. that's what your project is doing. what's the piece of advice you have. >> yes. okay, well, since you asked the seniors to get involved. they have inundated our site with home schooling, teaching, 700 of them have volunteered to do the food inflation survey. we have 100 survey results. in and the seniors know what it is to plan for the future. they're planning now. food storage canning, they are planning now. >> glenn: okay. one more. lisa is a is here and go to her web site as well the survival mom.com. you can find all this information. just remember glenn beck.com. it will direct you all to these sites and so much more information. back in a moment.

you would want to find another mormon girl, in her words, and that he said, according to her, that it would be a good idea. so that certainly showed he had the capacity to reason or at least have this kind of conversation with her. how powerful is that? >> that's right. remember, she's 14. this guy -- mitchell is in his 50s. she said she prayed let's go back to utah, we'll find another 14-year-old to be your wife, steal her from camp, mormon camp and the numb skull bought it. imagine a 14-year-old manipulating this guy, getting him back to utah, increasing the chance of discovery and escape. that's what happened. poise, unflappable, riveting testimony. i don't buy the insanity defense at all, and i think elizabeth smart is locking this prosecution up for a conviction. >> i wonder if his defense, mitchell's defense attorneys would use against her, you know what, she was held against her will for nine months. there was at least one opportunity where she would have gotten away, where she came face-to-face with a police officer who was describing that they were searching for her. she didn

. >> hinojosa: your mom was raised as a mormon... >> yes. >> hinojosa: ...which is a religion that, upr 1979, did not allow any african-american members of that church. so growing up, how does this happen? and actually, is it so strange? i mean, actually, is that kind of stuff happening a lot and we just don't necessarily see it? >> i mean, it's part of what was fun about watching obama run is he kept telling his story, and i was like, "oh, man; you've got nothing on me!" >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) >> "you should hear my story!" but that's true. my mother's people were mormon pioneers who pushed a handcart across the american west, settled in utah and in the west, and my mother went to brigham young university while my father was contemporaneous with stokely carmichael at howard university. and the two of them met, of course, in graduate school, which is the place where these sorts of things happen. >> hinojosa: oh, for graduate school! >> oh, for graduate school! so and i'm the youngest of five children in an interracial family where some of my siblings have two black parents and some

that's not going to happen because mormonism as we discussed, she was able to turn this limitation -- turning this event into that sort of successful public revival meeting i think shows great he is. >> how about the tea party? with convergence between glenn beck and the tea party? >> well, i think they're one and the same. i mean, he is the unofficial leader of the tea party and you could argue that sarah palin is as important to that movement, but she has more ties to the republican party. interestingly with beck, he's had the sort of movement things going before and in the past they didn't catch on because he wasn't as big, but she'd have masochists with honoring the troops and not sort of things, so there was a minor at the complex. basically he took that model and pushed it ahead. so he very much was encouraging the original tax day protest in 2009 immediately went ahead ahead with his own nine, 12 movement which for my solace which it to the 828 movement and no doubt is coming in now, proceeding onto the next movement. so i think, you know, i was sort of snotty and the subtitle

defense called witnesses who knew accused kidnapper brian david mitchell when he was a member of the mormonhurch and defense attorneys asked the judge to acquit mitchell saying prosecutors failed to prove their case. >>> straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather and in sports an overwhelming choice as the best pitcher in the national league. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. and celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain, you and your doctor need to balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, including celebrex, may increase the chance

finds americans of all religious faiths are divide about the islamic center near ground zero. 6 in 10 mormons and catholics believe another location should be used. about 40% of muslims and nonreligious americans support the current site. also jewish americans protestants and christian along the middle. islamic community center and mosque would be built two blocks away from the former site of the world trade center. >>> after four days of deliberations, we are hearing from the jurors in the shocking connecticut home invasion and murder case for the first time. they sentenceed one of the men to death yesterday. but as tj winnick tell us, the decision didn't come easily. >> reporter: there will never be closure dr. william petit tells us but there's justice for the day three years ago when his wife jennifer and their young daughters michaela and haley were killed in their connecticut home after hours of torment. one of the men charged steven hayes was sentenced to die when the jury hand down the verdict a jury that included seven women. >> i personly think it was a case of sexual assault agains

. >> reporter: raised a devout mormon, he feared his family would reject him so he kept his feelingsret. when were you first sexually with another man? >> um, i was 23. it used to be a very, very, very difficult and very shaming and quote/unquote disgusting part of my life. >> reporter: at 25, preston married a woman but was still privately struggling with attractions to men. he says a buddy told him about journey into manhood and he decided to give it a shot. that was three years ago. >> it's been life changing. it's been a whole new take on life. it's been absolutely miraculous for me personally. >> reporter: this particular weekend is a reunion. all of these men have attended journey into manhood before. most of them are religious, married to women and some have children. >> was there a time when you took on an identity as gay or straight -- >> reporter: journey into manhood is an intensive 48 hours of what wiler calls deep emotional work. >> go ahead and start to take off those that you've already discarded prior to coming here this weekend. >> reporter: in this exercise, the men

she also praises mitt romney a mormon.writes, where kennedy seemed to want to run away from religion, mitt romney embraced it. in her book, palin slams the president and first lady for mrs. obama's remark during the 2008 campaign, that it was the first time she felt proud of her country. palin writes, i guess this shouldn't surprise us, since both spent almost two decades in the pews of the reverend jeremiah wright's church. palin got a court order this weekend, pulling down pages of the book posted on the website gawker. but not before some material leaked. all this will probably help sales, but will that translate into votes if palin decides to run for president. barbara bush was blunt with lk. >> i think she's very happy in alaska and i hope she'll stay there. >> if you ran for president, would you beat barack obama? >> i believe so. >> reporter: other republican hopefuls are viewing palin more nervously, worrying how high she might aim. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> when we continue here tonight, what this

. >> news moved fast through this close-knit mormon community. volunteers came up by the hundreds. the search was on. >> we want all of the volunteers to know we are so thankful for you. >> as is customary in these cases, the police considered immediate family members possible suspects. >> there was a point after the initial search and the community involvement that the case turns and turns on the family. you and ed in particular became suspects. >> uh-huh. >> brought in for polygraphs and i believe ed was first. >> yeah. he actually called me and he said, i've just been through 2 1/2 hours of the worst hell i've ever been in. and then i went in and spent eight hours on a polygraph. >> eventually the family was cleared and the police turned their focus elsewhere. a green saturn seen in the neighborhood earlier. >> he's wanted for questioning. we don't consider him a suspect. >> but edmonds had no information. false leads led to false hope. ed smart needed a lifeline. >> we've got breaking news on the elizabeth smart abduction case. >> he leaned on john walsh of "america's most want

. >> larry: so that will be out soon, natalie cole and the mormon tabernacle choir for christmas.nths after the operation, you returned to performing at the hollywood bowl. what was that like? >> i thought i was going to have a heart attack. i was so excited. i was so happy. i was so -- i was floating, you know. i was just, you know, there was no guarantee that that was supposed to happen. so i knew it was a miracle moment. and the night was magic. it was just magic. it really was. >> larry: was there any change after the kidney in the way you sang? >> you know, i kind of -- i don't know if it's just me, but i kind of felt like my voice got stronger. it felt stronger to me. >> larry: well, you were stronger, right? >> i was a pretty, you know, fairly strong, you know. but i noticed when i was on dialysis and i was singing, i would get tired very, very quickly. >> larry: explain the title, "love brought me back." >> well, i think that the love of my family and the people around me really helped to bring me out of a really sad, dark place after cookie passed. i really didn't know ho

from the fringe of salt lake city in those days, quiet, middle class, studded everywhere with mostly mormonself on being a safe place to live. that's why people moved here. so it was a shock that very first time woods cross encountered murder. it was the 6th of june, 1980, a friday morning. >> oh my god! this is 1653 south -- 1200 -- 1200 west 1653 south. >> what's the problem? >> in woods cross. my wife's been killed! i just got home from work! >> the event stands out in the collective memoryhere. >> i'll send -- what is your name? >> steve strom. please come. please hurry. >> steve strom was an overnight shift worker at a local aerospace parts company, so it was just before 8:00 a.m. he told first responders when he came home to find his wife's body. she had been severely beaten, the furniture in their bedroom pushed around as if in a violent struggle. >> i was at work and my step mother had called me and she says, karen's dead. i just said, what? she goes, karen's dead. i said she can't be. i just talked to her. >> karen strom's sister coco rushed to the crime scene. a friendly cop threw

she's now 23, living in paris where she's a mormon missionary. she came home to testify.ribed her captor has an unholy hypocrite who used religious to justify her kidnapping and assault. john walsh joins us in a moment. but first randi kaye brings us back to the night smart was kidnapped and the details of a young girl's life that was ripped apart. here's tonight's crime and punishment report. >> reporter: as elizabeth smart and her family slept, a determined kidnapper entered their home through a kitchen window by cutting the screen. within minutes police say he was upstairs in the bedroom, elizabeth, then 14, shared with her younger sister. it was june 5th, 2002, around 2:00 a.m. in court this week, elizabeth, now 23, testified against the man who she says snatched her. she said he told her, i have a knife to your neck. don't make a sound. get out of bed or i will kill you and your family. on that awful night, elizabeth's little sister, mary katherine, was just nine at the time. she lay petrified in her bed, pretending to be asleep. at 4:00 a.m., mary catherine woke her

talking points believes the mormon issue isn't going to matter.is suspect among many conservative americans. palin is a champion for the many conservatives americans and seems to enjoy take the fight to president obama. america is obsessed with denigrating him. sarah palin would be the bold choice, mitt romney the safe choice. huckabee is a pop his who smooth style. despite a lack of money, the former arkansas governor is certainly a contender. newt gingrich is a wild card. a brilliant man but like sarah palin his negatives have very high and his style slash and burn. speaker also might have trouble raising money because he has a lot of baggage. as with governor palin the media would savage him with personal attacks. factor believes another republican will emerge there are a number of governors and senators may want to run. keep that in mind the next nominee might not even be on the radar yet. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. dick morris believes president obama might get a primary challenge within his own party. let's bring in the

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traffic is leading the american legion bridge to go towards the mormon temple has inner loop delay isin virginia seem to be relatively smooth on 395 and 95 and spotty delays to get to the 14th street bridge. >>> a lot of sunshine even looking off to the east. the clouds will generally be on the increase throughout the morning. it will degrade this afternoon. 46 degrees at reagan national airport. with the increasing cloud cover, temperatures will rise into the mid-50's which is average for this time of year. this weekend will be very seasonable with fall-like conditions and sunshine with added cloud cover on sunday and high temperatures in the mid- 50's and warmer by next week. >>> deliberations resume today in the chandra levy murder trial. jurors are considering the fate of being more quaint -- ingmar guandique. the jury deliberated for six hours yesterday without reaching a verdict. we will have another update at 8:56. for continuous news coverage, tune in to tbd news on news channel 8. ♪ please i try not to cry >>> that's annie lennox. what a voice. she's going to be here tomorrow

great weather in store for this afternoon, will visit with louisa and a mormon. in the meantime it was a storybook ending where the giants last night bottom of the ninth, to eds, brian wilson is on the amount wasn't true is swinging to end the game. that would bring in a series for the giants we saw some fantastic pitching last night on the part of wilson and tim lincecum really of sears long the pitching has been fantastic. >> (inaudible) >> i can now way to cut him in seeing him.i can't wait to cn to see him. hugging h him and se do not need to be recognized as the greatest year in history but we did need something like this. i think it means a lot to us. i'm glad we won. >> if he was transience champagne after the game will have much more giant coverage coming out. keep bids in to www.kron4.com for more formations as we had it to a brick, the victory parade will be tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., it is going to be fantastic we will have live coverage of an interrupted beginning to draw at 11:00 a.m.. into the air back, for the first time since they moved there was the

her suggestion to mitchell that they go back to salt lake, where he might find another wife at a mormonltimately led to her safety. >> the prayers of the world have brought elizabeth home. >> reporter: now, smart was rescued while hitchhiking back to utah, after shoplifting at a walmart. police stopped them on the side of the road, separated her from her captor and told her she was about to see her father again. what a relief. robin? >> and remarkable, mike, that she's doing as well as she is, after learning so much of what she went through. thanks so much. >>> it's 7:36. time for the weather and back to sam in music city, usa, nashville, tennessee. good morning, sam. >> good morning, robin. we miss you here. look at the crowd that's gathered. gang? it's incredible. and we've got a beautiful, sunny morning. just a little cool. it's going to warm up. we're going to get to 75. this is the 44th cma awards, by the way. everybody is out here to hear a little music. by the way, robin, if you're still there. i hope you didn't move from the desk. on top of tootty's orchid lounge, they are celeb

father hurley boulevard part of the inner loop delays from old georgetown road will take you to the mormonge. this is the camera 66 westbound with delays out of rosslyn and the crash is near sycamore street on the shoulder. >>> bright sunshine outside again today. it will look like this every day the rest of the week ended to the weekend. it is not as gusty today. it is a bit of improvement on yesterday. otherwise, high pressure over head through the weekend into the weekend 47 degrees in hagerstown. the forecast for today will be mostly sunny skies again and that trend will be poured the rest of the weekend into the weekend. high temperatures are 58 degrees-62 degrees by saturday >>> the national park service wants your opinion on plans to improve security at the washington monument. the park service wants to build a security checkpoint that a similar to a visitor center. five different plants have been unveiled an four of them score for end -- call for an underground facility. >> thanks for watching and we will be back at noon. "live with regis and kelly" is up next. and cable doesn't? y

i will take you live to the inner loop delay is at georgetown road near the mormon temple.y looks great. so does glebe road. nice news for us right now >>> we don't have the effect fog we had yesterday. bright sunshine right now and very warm. we are normally in the upper 30's in the morning. we are in the upper 40's and mid 50's. front royal is currently at 52 degrees. some clouds are coming in from the west and a cold front is moving into west virginia and we have some areas of light rain. most of it is breaking apart but we can expect a few light showers here and there toward lunch time. it should not amount to much and clearing later in the afternoon. we will be well into the 60's today. cooler tomorrow with sunshine and near 50. >>> tensing is set for february 11 for ingmar guandique who faces a maximum of life in prison. a jury found him guilty yesterday of killing federal entered chandra levy in 2001. he was already convicted of attacking two other women. ♪ la, la, la, la la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ it's a beautiful day la, la, la, la, la ♪ ♪ la, la, la, la good morning, amer

bob then spent several years working as a mormon chaplain in the utah army national guard before becoming the chief congressional liaison at the u.s. department of transportation. after his time at the transportation department, senator bennett moved on to a successful career in public relations. for over a drksd he presided over some of the most successful and high-profile public relations organizations in the k he became well known for his hard work, his leadership ability and his entrepreneurial prowess. this was solidified in 1984 when bob was named the c.e.o. of the franklin international institute which is now known as franklin kofi. franklin kofi is now one of the premiere personal and organizational effectiveness firms in the world. the products and services provided by the company impact literally millions of people every year, but when bob joined the company, it had only four employees. during his tenure, that number grew to over 1,000, and by the time he left to run for the senate, the company was listed on the new york stock exchange. it was at that time an already thriving co

he is a member of the mormon church. i leave it to you to imagine what such a precedent could do to our entire system of justice if judges can be either assigned or disqualified on the basis of religion. these next few items may make you laugh, but you will hurt a little, too. a former california superintendent of education, dr. max rafferty, has uncovered a few items having to do with extremes in the battle of the sexes. the department of health, education and welfare has discovered that in one public school system, more boys than girls were being spanked. if the school system doesn't want a million dollars in federal aid to be withheld, it will henceforth spank girls and boys in exactly equal numbers. in woonsocket, rhode island, the city council has ruled that from now on those metal-covered holes in our streets we've long called manholes will henceforth be known as person holes. and in missoula, montana, a peeping tom ordinance is now a 'peeping person' law. well, that's all the desk cleaning for today. and as i indi