[Illbay]

One has to wonder why LDS even got involved in a federal program like this in the first place.

"Federal programs"? Have you been sniffing glue?

It's called "public records." The LDS have simply been collating and organizing what is out there. We do it for our own religious purposes, yes, but no favors have been given. And we've also "given back" in terms of making all this information, in its organized form, freely available.

Most people I know call this civic-mindedness. They consider it a valuable service. Only someone who is suffering from drug-induced abnormal paranoia would see anything nefarious in any of this.

[habaes corpussel]

"It's called "public records." The LDS have simply been collating and organizing what is out there. We do it for our own religious purposes, yes, but no favors have been given. And we've also "given back" in terms of making all this information, in its organized form, freely available."

Yes public records for and from the Interior Department. What does this have to do with religion anyway? I have a problem with any Church collecting information on people who do not belong to their organization. BTW, lets not mention that this data helped the Mormon Church to perfect a database that it uses in other endeavors.

[philman_36]

We do it for our own religious purposes, yes, but no favors have been given.
It must be a "pick and choose" thing.

1 Tim 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Tit 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.