Awards
Lists of Brodie award winners:
X-Mormon of the Year 2012: David Twede
X-Mormon of the Year 2011: Joanna Brooks
X-Mormon of the Year 2010: Monica Bielanko
X-Mormon of the Year 2009: Walter Kirn
A Community for Anyone Interested in Mormonism.
The Inconvenient Truths about Mormon Lactivism
Recently there has been much talk surrounding a YW leader who is unfortunately threatened of having her temple recommend withdrawn if she does not leave the room or cover herself while breastfeeding at church meetings. (Call to Action – Lactivism) There are many things wrong with this scenario. The LDS church is all about the Family, and one would think they would consider the most beneficial options surrounding parenting in their policies and practices to reinforce the “family” way. We are Read more [...]
Posted in Family, Feminism, Gender, Health, Main Street Plaza, Manners, Mormon Culture, Motherhood, Parenting, pornography, Sex and Gender, Sisters, Traditions
NoCoolNameTom’s 25 new scripture mastery verses
For the first three months of this year, NoCoolNameTom has been translating scriptures into Greek, and giving context around the 25 scripture mastery verses. Beyond just being awesome to actually see the options for translation, and getting a good feel for which ones are twisted out of context, and which are fairly accurate, he has explored the ideas of “Why this verse” compared to others. This week, he posted his own suggested list of 25 New Testament scripture mastery scriptures for teenagers Read more [...]
Posted in correlation, Education, Empathy, ex-Mormon, Parenting, post-Mormon
Why not legalize polygamy, too?
One of the common arguments against same-sex marriage is that if you legalize it, you’ll have to eventually legalize polygamy. This SLT columnist who has been writing on polygamy for two decades asks, “Why not?” Often when people think about polygamy, they think about polygyny: one man marrying multiple women. We think of the Mormon past when women had fewer political rights and less financial independence. We think about the FLDS present: when Warren Jeffs “married” a 12-year-old girl. Read more [...]
Posted in Polygamy
Earthly father, invisible mother, sort of like our Heavenly Parents?
There’s a new video on the YouTube Mormon Channel comparing earthly fatherhood to Heavenly Fatherhood, and I generally agree with the sentiments about the importance of fathers, but a few things really bother me. First, there’s the implication that fatherhood is primarily about providing materially. Second, the wife of the father featured in this video is barely portrayed at all. Yes, I know this video is about glorifying fatherhood, but as my brother commented, “I wonder when we can expect the Read more [...]
Posted in Family, Marriage, Mother in Heaven, Motherhood, Parenting, Women
A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE AND A LETTER TO MY MOTHER
A MESSAGE TO ALL HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE Another 17 year old boy named Jack Denton Reese committed suicide on April 22 in Mountain Green, Utah after being bullied for being feminine and/or gay, the day before his boyfriend Alex Smith spoke at a panel about the bullying Jack experienced. The panel was held in connection with the screening of the documentary film, “Bullied.” Alex did not even know that his boyfriend had already killed himself the day before the panel convened. “You’ll always Read more [...]
Posted in Abuse, Christians, crime, Death, discrimination, Empathy, Family, Hate, Health, Homosexuality, Mormon Doctrine, Mormon Matters, Motherhood, Parenting, Secrecy, Sisters, Tolerance, Violence, Youth
A GAY PROCLAMATION TO THE WORLD FAMILY
The Proclamation of Robin Lee Johnson and his own life experience. I believe that all gay people are valid human beings who have the God given right to marry the person who they love and as long as they are monogamous and keep the law of chastity which they are doing by being married, they should have all of the 1,049 rights and privileges that comes with being married. This is the first and foremost belief I have. I have someone that I wish to marry right now and I do not think that I am sinning Read more [...]
Posted in Affirmation, Family, Homosexuality, LGBT, Marriage, Morality, Mormon Matters, Mormons, Motherhood, Parenting, Patriarchy, Proposition 8, Women, World
SOME THINGS I HAVE LEARNED BY BEING GAY AND MORMON
SOME THINGS THAT I HAVE LEARNED One thing that I have learned is: although Gay people are born gay; when gays have gone through the process of: first denial, then self-loathing and other steps, and finally acceptances; then Gay people are ready to move on to healthy relationships. Another thing that I have learned is: that for relationships to work; each person in that relationship, must learn to deal with all the rejection from family, friends, the clergy, members of their church, and other so Read more [...]
Posted in 8: The Mormon Proposition, Advice, Affirmation, And I'm a Mormon, Bible, Catholics, Christians, Community of Christ, excommunication, Further Light and Knowledge, Homosexuality, It Gets Better, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine, Mormon Matters, Mormons, Prophets, Proposition 8, Revelation, Truth
GAY COUPLE FIND GREAT HAPPINESS AT LAST, DESPITE MORMON BISHOP’S HOMOPHOBIA
I am now, and have been for over 11 months to date, very happy and my depression has become almost non-existent. I have found out for myself, that being gay or homosexual, is not only right for me, but also can be enjoyed, and bring much joy to the lives of gay people. Life is beautiful, and God has blessed me abundantly since I came out of the closet for the second time in my life. Since “wickedness never was happiness,” I must not be all that wicked after all, because I am very happy! Read more [...]
Christmas Eve Service
Some years ago, I attended a Christmas Eve service with my grandmother. She converted to Mormonism as an adult, and was raised in a more traditional/ritual religion (Ukrainian Orthodox). It’s a religion where they make a big deal out of Christmas Eve. She liked attending services of other churches on Christmas Eve. She loved the music, the lights. When I was a teenager, my ward went to a different format for Christmas. I can’t remember if most Christmas celebrations would be a two hour Read more [...]
Posted in Catholicism, Catholics, Christmas, Family, Jehovah's Witnesses
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Mormon Moment Series on poetrysansonions.blogspot.com
Ahhhhh! The smell of fresh, juicy, slightly wrong Mormon blog posts. It must be Sunday! I have been doing a series of posts related to Mormon and Post-Mormon issues that seem to be *hot* this year. With more and more people interested in Mormons, and now the change in rules for when male and female missionaries are allowed to serve, the Bloggernacle keep heating up! So, if you missed the first posts in the series (because I was a slacker and wasn’t cross posting) here is your chance to catch up. Read more [...]