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In this Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019 photo, a Boy Scouts troop gathers during their meeting, in Kaysville, Utah. For decades, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was one of Boy Scouts of America's greatest allies and the largest sponsor of troops. But on Jan. 1, the Utah-based faith will deliver the latest body blow to the struggling BSA when it implements its plan to pull out more than 400,000 youths and move them into a new global program of its own. This Latter-day Saint-based Boy Scouts troop in Kaysville, though, formed outside the church structure and plans to stick with the Boy Scouts after the church ends its longtime alliance at the end of 2019. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormons pulling 400,000 youths out of struggling Boy Scouts

By BRADY McCOMBS and DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, file photo, Austin Cloes points to a photo of his relative Rhonita Miller and her family, who were killed in Mexico, on a computer screen, in Herriman, Utah. The recent slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy shines a new spotlight on the ongoing struggle for the mainstream church to fight the association with plural marriage groups because of its past. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mexico killing highlights confusion over Mormon groups

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2015 file photo, Sandy Newcomb poses for a photograph with a rainbow flag as people gather for a mass resignation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is repealing rules unveiled in 2015 that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made gay marriage a sin worthy of expulsion. The surprise announcement Thursday, April 4, 2019, by the faith widely known as the Mormon church reverses rules that triggered widespread condemations from LGBTQ members and their allies. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons repeal ban on baptisms for children of gay parents

By Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Lawsuit: Mormon Church failed to keep child safe from abuse

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

&quot;We did it!&quot; yells Shawn McDonald, center, as he celebrates with Teisha Martinez, left, and Aubrey Taylor after a local media outlet called results showing Proposition 2 passed at the Proposition 2 election night party at the Infinity Event Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Proposition 2 legalizes the medical use of marijuana for individuals with qualifying medical illnesses. (Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP)

Marijuana backers balk at plan to revise ballot measure

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2014, file photo, the angel Moroni statue sits atop the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church is ramping up its opposition to a medical-marijuana proposal in Utah even as leaders insist they would support patients using the drugs under stricter controls. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormon church ramps up opposition to medical marijuana plan

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Churchill County Sheriff's office shows John O'Conner. Police in the northern Nevada city of Fallon are trying to determine why O'Conner walked into his Mormon church on Sunday, July 22, 2018, and opened fire, killing one man and injuring another. (Churchill County Sheriff's Office via AP)

The Latest: Court appearance set in Nevada church killing

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A woman who would only identify herself as a niece of shooting victim Charles 'Bert' Miller, is joined by her children as she places flowers at a makeshift memorial Monday, July 23, 2018, in Fallon, Nev., outside the fire department where Miller was a longtime volunteer firefighter. Police in the northern Nevada city are trying to determine why a 48-year-old man walked into his Mormon church on Sunday, July 22, 2018, and opened fire, killing Miller and injuring another person. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

The Latest: Church shooting victim’s neighbors in shock

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This undated photo provided by the Churchill County Sheriff's office shows John O'Conner. Police in the northern Nevada city of Fallon are trying to determine why O'Conner walked into his Mormon church on Sunday, July 22, 2018, and opened fire, killing one man and injuring another. (Churchill County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Police search for motive in Nevada Mormon church shooting

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2015, file photo, people walk past the Salt Lake Temple after mailing resignation letters during a mass resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church's massive genealogical database will begin accepting submissions of names of people from same-sex relationships sometime next year. The move doesn't foreshadow any change to long-standing church opposition to gay marriage, but it is being done to ensure the databank has as much information as possible for researchers, according to a statement from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormon genealogical database to accept same-sex couples

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Mormons pulls missionaries from Nicaragua amid violence

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Navajo judge won’t toss claims of abuse in Mormon program

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Mormon church President Russell M. Nelson shakes hands with Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP during a news conference Thursday, May 17, 2018, in Salt Lake City. Top leaders from the NAACP and Mormon church are calling for greater racial harmony and mutual respect following the first official meeting between national leaders from the civil rights organization and Utah-based religion. Johnson said the alliance should serve as an example for others to work in harmony and with greater civility as he read from read prepared remarks during a media event in Salt Lake City Thursday. Nelson called for greater racial and ethnic harmony. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

NAACP and Mormons call for racial harmony, civility

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 5, 2018 file photo McKenna Denson speaks with reporters during a news conference in Salt Lake City. The Mormon church has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing leaders of brushing aside rape allegations against Denson, a former missionary training center director. Many people who could have testified about what happened in the 1980s have died or have only cloudy memories, leaving the faith unable to fully defend itself, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says in court documents filed Tuesday, May 15, 2018, Denson has said she reported several times over the last three decades that Joseph L. Bishop sexually assaulted her, but the church failed to take disciplinary action. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer,File)

Mormon church wants 1984 rape suit against ex-leader tossed

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

This Aug. 4, 2015, file photo, flowers bloom in front of the Salt Lake Temple, at Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormon church raises ‘grave concerns’ with Utah medical marijuana proposal

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 22, 2013, file photo, Andrew Garrison, 11, of Salt Lake City, looks over the Rockwell exhibition at the Mormon Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. Twenty-three original, Boy Scout-themed Norman Rockwell paintings were on display in Salt Lake City to celebrate the 100-year relationship between Scouting and the Mormon church. An announcement Tuesday night, May 8, 2018, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Boy Scouts will mark an end to close relationship that lasted more than a century built on their shared values. The religion will move its remaining boys into its own scouting-type program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormons severing all ties with Boy Scouts, ending long bond

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Navajo Nation judge weighs jurisdiction of church lawsuits

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Ulisses Soares, left, of Brazil and Gerrit W. Gong, who is Chinese-American, join a panel called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles at the start of a twice-annual conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Saturday, March 31, 2018, in Salt Lake City. At the church conference this weekend in Salt Lake City, The Mormon church has made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel by selecting the first-ever Latin American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mormon church’s all-male hierarchy is steeped in tradition

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Man testifies in suit alleging Mormons overlooked sex abuse

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Trial begins in suit alleging Mormons overlooked sex abuse

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