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Good evening everyone and welcome to the Mormon newscast where we cover breaking

news stories relating to the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today's date is January 15th, 2024. Our lead story for

tonight will be covered by our man on the street Dr. John

de Lynn. Dr de Lynn. Thank you R. F. M. Okay, so today the leading story is

Mormon Church hires LGBT ally as head spokesman.

Welcome to the Mormon newscast.

Deseret News just a few days ago reported that Aaron Sharinian is a long time global communication

specialist and was introduced Tuesday as the new head of public affairs and

media relations for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And of course we're all wondering, you know, if the Tim Ballard, Russell and Ballard,

Emeralde Ballard, Fiesco was the cause.

But what's most interesting is for the focus of today we're going to be talking about how sort of

conservative fundamentalist,

I would even say potentially,

you could say magam mamanism is coming unglued

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