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RELIGION Friday, January 16, 2015 East Oregonian Page 7A Duke nixes plan to use chapel for Muslim call to prayer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Days after announcing that a Muslim call to prayer would echo from its historic chap- el tower, Duke University changed course Thursday emails objecting to the plan. Instead, Muslims will gather for their call to prayer in a grassy area near the 210-foot gothic tower be- fore heading into a room in Duke Chapel for their week- ly prayer service. The uni- versity had previously said AP Photo/The Herald Journal, John Zsiray, File In this May 2014 file photo, John Dehlin sits in his basement studio where he broad- casts his podcast at his home in North Logan, Utah. Mormon who runs website for faith questions faces discipline SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lifelong Mormon well- known for running a website that provides a forum for church members questioning their faith said Thursday he is set to be kicked out of the religion. John Dehlin of Logan said a regional church lead- er informed him Wednesday night that a disciplinary hear- ing is scheduled for Jan. 25, at which Dehlin is likely to be censured or excommuni- cated. Excommunication is rare and amounts to the harshest punishment available for a church member. Dehlin said he was told last year that his website Mormonstories.org and his public support of same-sex marriage were reasons he is being accused of aposta- “repeatedly acting in clear, open, and deliberate public opposition to the church or its faithful leaders, or persist- ing, after receiving counsel, in teaching false doctrine.” Dehlin has released letters from the church leader that were given to him in August and this month. The letters focus on Dehlin’s question- ing of key church doctrine, the forum he provides via the website for doubters, and him becoming an ordained minister in another faith. The documents do not mention his support for gay marriage. Dehlin says he would like to remain a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but won’t give up the website or pull back his support for gays and lesbians. He has faced church discipline multiple times over the past decade. “I still love the church, I still love Mormonism,” Deh- lin said. “But I would certain- ly rather be excommunicated than violate my conscience.” Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement they won’t discuss Dehlin’s case out of privacy concerns. Spokesman Eric Haw- kins said in a statement that church leaders have clearly spelled out the reasons for the discipline in letters to De- hlin, leaving it up to Dehlin to release the documents. The latest letter, dated Jan. 8 from regional church lead- er Bryan King, is only three paragraphs long and says that after carefully weighing activity on Dehlin’s social media sites, King decided to convene the upcoming dis- ciplinary council. He invit- ed Dehlin to participate and bring witnesses and other ev- idence for his case. A previous letter from August shows King calling on Dehlin to apologize for false statements he has made about God, Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon. It also asks him to stop running the forum for people to criticize the church and refrain from promoting groups that push doctrines contrary to Mor- mon beliefs. Dehlin said King and an- other church leader have ver- bally mentioned his support of gay rights and the group Ordain Women as reasons for concern, even though they are not in the letters. Dehlin’s hearing comes seven months after the church excommunicated Kate Kelly, founder of Or- dain Women, a prominent Mormon women’s group that staged demonstrations in a push for women to be allowed to join the faith’s lay clergy. That move sent ripples throughout Mormon com- munities around the country and was described by schol- ars as boundary maintenance and a warning to others. 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Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, wrote later in the day that the uni- versity made the right deci- sion to cancel the plan to use the tower. However, Schoen- feld said the reversal was not due to Graham’s opposition. Shalini Subbarao, 19, a sophomore from St. Louis, said she was disappointed with the school’s reversal as she walked past the chapel. “I thought it was really progressive. It showed our openness to other religions,” she said of the original plan. Ios Kotaogiannis, a 39-year-old doctoral can- didate in computer science who is from Greece, said he their decision. “I’m a secular person. I’m not against religion. I think religion is good. But it has its place — inside the chapel,” he said. by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations. The chapel’s associate dean for religious life, Chris- ty Lohr Sapp, said before the plans were canceled that the move showed the school’s commitment to religious plu- ralism. In a column written for The News & Observer of Raleigh, Lohr Sapp ac- knowledged the headlines generated by violence by extremists in ISIS, Boko Ha- ram and al-Qaida, contrast- ing it to what’s happening on campus. “Yet, at Duke University, the Muslim community rep- resents a strikingly different face of Islam than is seen on the nightly news: one that is peaceful and prayerful,” she wrote. The university says more than 700 of its students are Muslim, Schoenfeld said. p w i t h u s ! 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Mailed check or money order I would like to pay with my credit card Circle one: Visa or Mastercard Cardmember Name: Card Number: Cardholder's Address: Expiration Date: The original plan drew the ire of evangelist Franklin Graham, who urged Duke alumni to withhold support because of violence against Christians that he attributed to Muslims. Schoenfeld said emails and calls came from alumni and others. “There was considerable AP Photo/Jonathan Drew This Jan. 15 photo shows Duke Chapel in Durham, N.C. On Thursday, just days after announcing that a traditional Muslim call to prayer would echo from the historic chapel tower, Duke University changed course after being bombarded with calls and emails objecting to the plan. 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