V.A. Hospital in Utah to Restore Church Services

   America was founded by those who escaped England to be allowed to practice denominations other than the Church of England. It worked out well for them. They arrived in America to practice their separate faiths.

   But it isn't working out so well for veterans in Salt Lake City. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are residents at the Veterans Administration hospital there only have one choice when it comes to Sunday Services -- and it isn't their's. No, the only service that is allowed is nondenominational.

   These are veterans, mind you. They fought for freedom, including the right to worship according to the dictates of one's own conscience.

   The Salt Lake City V.A. dropped the LDS services recently when Lorna Graham arrived as the new chief of chaplain service. One LDS resident there said Graham even treated her with hostility when she walked into her room to find the her reading from the church's scriptures.

   The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper has carried a story on how LDS services at the hospital have been banned. That story has resulted in good news for the LDS residents: Graham says she is working to restore the services, needing only to get an LDS chaplain in place who can direct the services.

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