attila wrote:

Dale: the 'mountain' contains only original copies of the church records (actually quite small) and the immense collection of the genealogy of the world as records are microfilmed whereever the have been available. these records contain ** only ** birth, baptismal, marriage, death, and burial records. most European records come from the churchs.

[remaining text deleted] The only reason I would bother to mention this is merely to caution people to think: What could *possibly* happen if the shoe were on the other foot. If the Constitution is about anything at all, it's about balance of power, and when *any* power transfers more to one interest than another, interesting changes can occur. BTW, there have been articles in the L.A. Times about attempts by persons not of the Mormon faith to prevent Mormons from dominating the cultural life in SLC schools, other public venues, etc. This raises the eternal question: Can a group live the way *it* wants to without interference, or is group culture always going to constitute a threat to persons in the vicinity who don't share that culture?