![]() Laake was raised in a devoutly Mormon family. She came to Seattle recently to promote "Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond," (William Morrow & Co. One who was excommunicated was Deborah Laake, 39. ![]() Yet other people remain and hope for change. Amidst the child-rearing, freezing, canning and church meetings - part of life by church directive - they are speaking out. Yet for a some Mormon women, the church is anything but an enclave in a world gone mad with social change. The number continues growing steadily, thanks to thousands of missionaries who advocate the doctrine of God, country and traditional family life. ![]() In the United States there are 4.5 million members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about 200,000 live in Washington state. ![]() For years its image has been homey as a bowl of oatmeal, full of standards lofty as a flag salute, a denomination that produced Donny and Marie. ![]()
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