Let’s be precise about what is meant by lying. A lie is an untruth told deliberately with the intent to deceive
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well, that is ONE definition. But lying can also be lying by omission or only telling half truths, that is the most common form of LDS ‘lying for the Lord’.
http://mrm.org/lying-for-the-lord
http://20truths.info/mormon/lying.html
http://mormonthink.com/lying.htm
http://www.exmormon.org/lying.htm
http://www.mormonwiki.org/Lying_for_the_Lord
And that would be "lying for the lord", a mormon thing.