{{short description|Latter Day Saint organization}} The '''Mormon Alliance''' (originally the '''Mormon Defense League,'''<ref>{{cite journal|last=Baer|first=Hans A.|title=Do Mormonism and the Former German Democratic Republic Have Anything in Common?: An Examination of Marx's Concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production |date=September 1996|journal=Dialectical Anthropology|publisher=Springer|volume=21|issue=3/4|pages=345–362|doi=10.1007/BF00245773 |jstor=29790435|s2cid=143756219 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19920815&id=x3NPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zCQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6296,4077107|title=Mormon church said to be keeping files on dissenters|date=August 15, 1992|work=Times-News|accessdate=4 January 2013}}</ref> but not to be conflated with a later organization of that name) was founded on July 4, 1992 by Paul Toscano to counter perceived spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to protect the Church against defamatory actions.<ref name="slt1">{{Cite news |author=Fletcher Stack |first=Peggy |author-link=Peggy Fletcher Stack |date=1993-05-08 |title=Alliance Counters 'Spiritual Abuse' in Mormon Church |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-alliance-counters/169083651/ |accessdate=2025-03-29 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> During the next few months, the trustees established a broad range of supporting purposes: providing a comprehensive definition of spiritual abuse, working to reconcile leaders and members who were out of harmony, establishing a Members’ Bill of Rights,<ref name="bill">{{Cite news |author=Stack |first=Peggy Fletcher |author-link=Peggy Fletcher Stack |date=1992-10-03 |title=Mormon Faction Discusses 'Bill of Rights' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-mormon-faction-dis/169083819/ |accessdate=2025-03-29 |work=The Salt Lake Tribune |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> providing a forum for a reasonable and tempered discussion of governance in the Church, critiquing general conference, and identifying and documenting cases of spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse. Janice Merrill Allred and Lavina Fielding Anderson, two of the trustees, became co-chairs of the Case Reports Committee in the fall of 1992 and served until the closing of the Mormon Alliance. Toscano and Fielding Anderson were excommunicated by the Church following their actions.<ref name="excom">{{Cite news |date=1993-09-21 |title=Two Excommunicated by Mormon Church |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-two-excommunicated-by-m/169083865/ |accessdate=2025-03-29 |work=The Boston Globe |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name="latexc">{{Cite web |author=Smith |first=Lynn |date=1993-12-30 |title=Whatever Happened to... 1993 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-30-vw-6742-story.html |accessdate=2025-03-29 |work=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
The Alliance published a quarterly newsletter from Fall 1993 to January 2006,<ref>{{cite web | title=Item Display - By common consent | work=Harold B. Lee Library | url=http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/pcnum/1588739 | accessdate=2014-07-08}} Numbering started over in 1995.</ref> as well as three volumes of case reports online and in print.<ref name="OstlingOstling2007">{{cite book|last1=Ostling|first1=Richard|last2=Ostling|first2=Joan K.|title=Mormon America - Revised and Updated Edition: The Power and the Promise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5h6paNzoIOIC&pg=PA359|accessdate=4 January 2013|date=2007-10-09|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=9780061432958|pages=359–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Case reports of the Mormon Alliance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_oDZAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Mormon Alliance}}</ref> The Alliance also sponsored quarterly meetings,<ref>{{cite news |date=January 12, 2002 |title=Faith in Action |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-faith-in-action/169084064/ |accessdate=2025-03-29 |work=Salt Lake Tribune |page=C2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> two of which would follow Church General Conferences and one in conjunction with the Sunstone symposium held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
According to the group's website, the Mormon Alliance dissolved in December 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Contacting the Mormon Alliance |url=https://mormon-alliance.org/contact/contact.htm |website=Mormon Alliance |access-date=3 February 2025}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://mormon-alliance.org/ Mormon Alliance Home Page], containing an archive of [http://mormon-alliance.org/newsletter/newsletter.htm newsletters] and their [http://mormon-alliance.org/casereports/casereports.htm Case Reports] * {{Cite news |last=Toscano |first=Paul James |author-link=Paul Toscano |year=1993 |title=Dealing with Spiritual Abuse: the Role of the Mormon Alliance |pages=32–39 |work=Sunstone |url=https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/091-32-39.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=2022-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221184545/https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/091-32-39.pdf |archive-date=2022-12-21}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100305032554/http://mormonalliance.org/ Archive of The Mormon Alliance website] June 2014 (from April 2010 scrape by Archive.org)
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