LDS Church Wants The Word Mormon Back
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Bill Reel
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Tonight on The Mormon Newscast: The LDS Church is now pressuring creators to stop using the word “Mormon” because they want surprise, surprise, they want the word; even after years of telling members not to use it. Why does the Church suddenly want the word back? What’s behind this new legal push, and what does… Read More »LDS Church Wants The Word Mormon Back
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings, everyone. Welcome to the Mormon Newscast. I'm Radio Free Mormon, joined by Bill Reel and Rebecca Biblioteca. How are you both doing tonight? |
| 0:11.6 | Excellent. Fantastic. You're looking especially festive, Rebecca, in that red shirt. |
| 0:17.6 | I try to wear some red for Christmas, and then I realize it's also symbolic |
| 0:22.4 | because a lot of the stories we're going to cover tonight have me seeing red, honestly. And I put |
| 0:29.0 | them on red slides for that purpose. We've got a lot of news to cover tonight, but does anybody have |
| 0:35.2 | any announcements they would like to make before we get to the top story? |
| 0:39.8 | I have I have lots of announcements, but they will be along the way. So I'm excited. |
| 0:45.1 | Rebecca? |
| 0:46.3 | Nope. I think we'll just plug them in as they make sense as we go along. |
| 0:50.7 | Okay. Well, today's date is December 8, 2025. Thank you for joining us. The top |
| 0:56.8 | stories tonight are, the LDS Church wants the word Mormon back. Next, church releases statement |
| 1:04.9 | on Wade Christopherson. We all know who Wade is, I hope. Getting Mormon blessings restored, more Mormon molesters. That will |
| 1:14.2 | unfortunately be my story. Brodies, bigger than ever, and these are the awards. Church excommunicates |
| 1:22.9 | Karen Hyatt. A lot of people don't even know who that is. I didn't actually until you pointed it out to me, |
| 1:28.3 | Rebecca. And that's an important story that I think you'll be covering. I will be in. It is an |
| 1:33.9 | important story. And finally, that's how the cookies crumble at BYU. All right. I think Bill Reel has |
| 1:42.4 | our first story tonight, which is about the church. The LDS Church wants the word Mormon back? Say it ain't so, Bill. |
| 1:49.8 | Yeah, thank you. So let me start off by saying this story involves us as content creators. And it is the church going after us. And so I just want to note here, this was in the Salt Lake |
| 2:02.4 | Tribune this morning. You and all, you know, the three of us were up this morning having a |
| 2:07.2 | conversation about what's the lead story. And suddenly this came across the wire and we thought, |
| 2:12.0 | well, I think this is the lead story. So the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, |
| 2:17.0 | the LDS Church, is now leaning |
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