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
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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there has been much talk surrounding a YW leader who is unfortunately threatened of having her temple recommend withdrawn if she does not leave the room or cover herself while breastfeeding at church meetings.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
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
Do you believe in Priesthood Blessings?
In the July 2012 edition of the Ensign, there is an article by Elder Dallen H Oaks. http://www.lds.org/liahona/2012/07/the-importance-of-priesthood-blessings?lang=eng&query=blessings+comfort In the article, he talks about the different kinds of priesthood blessings. For this post, I would like to focus on Blessings of Comfort or Counsel. The article describes them this way: “Persons desiring guidance in an important decision can receive a priesthood blessing. Persons who need extra spiritual Read more [...]
Posted in Authority, Dallin Oaks, Family, General Conference, Health, Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, Obedience, Objectivity, Parenting, Patriarchy, Power, Prayer, Priesthood, Revelation, Rights, Testimony, The Spirit, Uncategorized, Values
Why do you blog? How do you choose what to include, or focus on?
(This is part of a post that is on my personal blog. To see the entire post you can go to http://poetrysansonions.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-do-i-blog-why-do-you.html) When I startedmy currentblog, there was a lot of”legal “crap” going on in my life, thatlasted over a year, beforea judge finally dismissed the case for lack of evidence. My lawyers didn’t want me to continue posting to my previous blog(s) since they were coming under a lot of scrutiny. However, since I didn’t have anything to hide, Read more [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Changes, civil discourse, Community, Family, Guest Authors, Health, Uncategorized
One more thing for Mormons to be proud about…
They make up 27% of the contestants on the The Biggest Loser, a show people can watch to either: (1) make fun of fat people, (2) make them feel less fat, or (3) let them commiseratewith fat people! The MormonTimes is highlighting the fact that 6 of the 22 current contestants on the biggest loser are Mormons. I can understand that Mormons are currently in a “Look at us!” phase, in which any attention is seen as good attention. But attention to the Mormon obesity epidemic? Mormons are, statistically, Read more [...]
Posted in Health, Mormons, mormontimes.com
Q: How to get single Mormons to attend LDS Institute classes?
A: Guilt and sex. Tonight? Oh, behave. Rrrrr. h/t: r/exmormon and t.t.a.n.s. See also Mormon Ad FAIL: I know I shouldn’t be shocked and outraged that this comes from a church whose finest entertainment moment was the depiction of Johnny Lingo bartering for an 8-Cow Wife. And I know I’ve heard more returned missionaries than I can count who’ve been promised “a hot wife” in exchange for their faithfulness. But it is different when the video comes straight from the Church’s official Read more [...]
Posted in Bloggernacle, Health, Humor, Hypocrisy, Journey Into Manhood, Mormons, Pity, Suffering, The Spirit, Video
Mormon Times says religion can be bad, but not theirs
I couldn’t help but stop by MormonTimes.com for this headline, “Elizabeth Smart case shows best and worst of religion’s influence”. I thought since Brian David Mitchell is a splinter from Mormonism the writers at MormonTimes might suggest something really “out there,” like, maybe, Mormonism can, in fact, be bad for humanity if certain ideas and practices are emphasized rather than others. Okay, the odds of that happening are virtually zero. But the headline grabbed my attention. Instead, what we Read more [...]
Posted in Abuse, Health, Hypocrisy, Joseph Smith, mormontimes.com
Mormon homophobia is so pass
Even major corporations in Utah have seen the benefits of equality, like Intermountain Healthcare, which extended “domestic partner” benefits to same-sex couples last week. Props to IHC! Of course, what I mean by pass is that it is really only pass in corporate America to be homophobic. That same is not true in pseudo-corporate, religious America, where most people think religions suck when it comes to dealing with issues related to homosexuality. According to a recent PublicReligion.org study, Read more [...]
Posted in COB, Health, Homosexuality
Book Review: Playing Dangerous Games
Hi Everyone. DJ Williams, a somewhat infrequent commenter on MSP, recently published a book that, while not primarily about Mormonism, addresses it as it relates to BDSM. I recently read and reviewed the book and DJ has agreed to respond to comments on MSP. Here’s the review: Even though the book doesn’t actually do this succinctly at any one point, let me give a background on the author and the setting for the book. This is both important and relevant, as the book is an auto-ethnography. DJ Read more [...]
Posted in Book Review, Depression, ex-Mormon, Health, Sex and Gender, Tolerance
The Nature of Sexuality
Todd just found a youtube video of the documentary Legacies about the treatment of Mormon gays by their church: Spencer Kimball’s attitudes about sexuality, unfortunately, can only be characterized as superstition. In the Mormon case, superstition is intertwined with claims to personal revelation. The latter is defined such that the superstition cannot be legitimately questioned but is buttressed by wishful thinking, suspension of disbelief, and hindsight attribution. To break through Read more [...]
Posted in Abuse, BYU, Culture, discrimination, Ethics, Family, Health, Homosexuality
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