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Elizabeth Smart Marries In Hawaii


Posted on Feb 19, 2012 @ 06:21AM - 6 comments

By Radar Staff

Elizabeth Smart wed in Hawaii Saturday afternoon. The groom is Matthew Gilmour, 22, from Aberdeen, Scotland. The two met a year ago in Paris where they were both assigned doing Mormon missionary work.

"To be in one of her favorite places with her family has made for a dream wedding. It's been an absolutely beautiful day,'' her spokesperson, Chris Thomas, told People. “She is positively radiant, and Matthew couldn’t be happier."

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Smart made worldwide headlines in 2002, when at age 14, she was kidnapped from her family home.  She was rescued from her captors, who'd subjected her to sexual assault almost daily, nine months later.

Smart, now a college senior, and Gilmour, wed in front of a small group of family and close friends at the Laie Hawaii Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the island of Oahu.

Elizabeth Smart wed in Hawaii Saturday afternoon. The groom is Matthew Gilmour, 22, from Aberdeen, Scotland. The two met a year ago in Paris where they were both assigned doing Mormon missionary work.

"To be in one of her favorite places with her family has made for a dream wedding. It's been an absolutely beautiful day,'' her spokesperson, Chris Thomas, told People. “She is positively radiant, and Matthew couldn’t be happier."

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Mormons Ban Cross-Gender Halloween Costumes


Posted on Oct 29, 2011 @ 01:20PM - 8 comments

By Radar Staff

A Mormon Halloween party for kids in Sandy, Utah has caused an uproar after banning the wearing of "cross-gender" costumes.

The Thursday night event, held at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints' Crescent 16th Ward in Sandy was advertised via hand-made posters taped to every door in its neighborhood.

"It has everything to do with not loving your fellow man because they choose to dress a specific way," an outraged local, Raquel Smith told Fox13.

A Mormon Halloween party for kids in Sandy, Utah has caused an uproar after banning the wearing of "cross-gender" costumes.

The Thursday night event, held at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints' Crescent 16th Ward in Sandy was advertised via hand-made posters taped to every door in its neighborhood.

"It has everything to do with not loving your fellow man because they choose to dress a specific way," an outraged local, Raquel Smith told Fox13.

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"I think definitely a child as young as a toddler can understand when a parent says, 'no honey, you can't be Spider-Man or Harry Potter because you're a girl and that's a boy.' I think that immediately tells your child their decisions are wrong."

LDS Bishop Dennis Toone, who hosted the party, stood by the prohibition, saying  "I thought it was church policy. I'll defend the church and anyone who doesn't like it doesn't have to come."

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He was later contradicted by an LDS Church spokesman who said that only masks were supposed to be banned, as a security precaution.

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