BYU yanks professor's polygamy-explainer Web page
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Jim Engebretsen's Web page - polygamy.byu.edu - came down Monday shortly after it was posted when officials said it violated university policy.
Engebretsen did not have approval to post the ``personal project'' on the school site, said BYU spokeswoman Carrie Jenkins.
Engebretsen directs the master's degree of business administration program and serves as an assistant dean for corporate relations and career placement at BYU's Marriott School of Management.
BYU is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which denounced the practice of polygamy in 1890. The church provides historical information about polygamy, or plural marriage, on its Web site.
Engebretsen's site was considered more candid about polygamy than the church's site, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Engebretsen's site posed questions including ``Did Joseph Smith marry young girls?'' and ``Did Joseph Smith lie about practicing polygamy?'' with answers drawn from or linked to scholarly works at other Web sites.
``I thought they had cleared more of the information than they had,'' Engebretsen said. ``We'll find another home for it. We were just trying to get good content out. I can understand why they don't want it to be associated with BYU.''
Engebretsen said the site was launched as part of an effort to provide positive, accurate information about the church on the Internet. The site is an extension of the ``More Good Foundation'' site that Engebretsen founded with BYU professors Daniel Peterson and Robert Millett to promote accurate information about the church on the Internet.
First woman installed as Lutheran bishop in Ohio synod
AKRON, Ohio (AP) _ A Clevelander has been installed as the first woman bishop of the northeast Ohio synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton was installed last weekend by national Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson in a ceremony attended by bishops of numerous denominations. Eaton becomes the spiritual leader of 84,000 members at 205 churches.
``We have a lot to do, and we're going to do it. Amen,'' Eaton said.
Eaton, 51, grew up in Cleveland, graduated from Wooster College in 1977 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1980.
She began her service in 1981 in the Columbus suburb of Worthington, then moved to Youngstown and Ashtabula, where she was pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church for more than 15 years. The denomination is based in Chicago.
Eaton replaces the Rev. Marcus Miller, who resigned last year to become president of Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C.
Kay Eaton, a Roman Catholic from Parma who is the new bishop's aunt, said the ceremony moved her.
``Liz won't look at it as an historic moment, but to me it's very historic,'' she said. ``I'm overjoyed when women can break through that stained-glass ceiling.''
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