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Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-once-its-not-the-scientologists dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mormon Church has instructed its lawyers to gag the Internet over WikiLeaks' release of the 1968 and 1999 versions of its confidential handbook for Church leaders. Apart from attacking WikiLeaks, legal demands were sent to Jimmy Wales of the WikiMedia foundation for a WikiNews article merely linking to the material, and scribd.com has also been censored. WikiLeaks has (of course) refused to remove the documents."

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  1. Re:Inevitably.. by LaskoVortex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The LDS Church owns the copyright to its handbook of instructions, and the Church is well within its rights to enforce that copyright.

    Unfortunately, there are a lot of people stupid enough to accept and trust a church who copyrights its religious teachings. If you are a "lost soul" looking for some "salvation", you will be wise to choose a church that doesn't do this, especially when you decide you have "found yourself" again and want to move on.

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    Just callin' it like I see it.