So DADT is gone. Let’s take a roll call of the Mormon senators and their votes for the repeal: Reid (D-NV) -Yea Bennett (R-UT) – Nay Crapo (R-ID) – Nay Hatch (R-UT) – (Didn’t vote) (Did I forget anyone?) — Some have noted that before DADT, you couldn’t get kicked…
Month: December 2010
DAMU, I Thank You
Paying homage to online friends during this holiday season with some heartfelt silliness: (Alt link in case the embedded vid loads too slow) My inspiration, my energy, my wisdom, my gratitude, my vision, my laughter … my knowledge. From me to you: I’m so glad I’m you’re here. And, yes,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Home for the Holidays Edition!
OK, so this makes three in a row about the December holidays, but I have an excuse! Between our fabulous news-gathering Chino and our new arrival Jon Adams, I have less incentive to focus this space on the news, and more reason to focus on the personal stories people post…
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…
Link bomb
I have been doing my ‘link bomb’ series for months over at the USU SHAFT blog, but I’ve been invited to share them here also. I hope you enjoy it! Last Thursday, the pope called Christians the most persecuted people in the world, and this immediately elicited derision from my…
Mormonism, disability, same-gender attraction
From Alma 34: 40 And now my beloved brethren, I would exhort you to have patience, and that ye bear with all manner of afflictions; that ye do not revile against those who do cast you out because of your exceeding poverty, lest ye become sinners like unto them; 41…
Thinking About You
I got into trouble in fifth grade and I think about it every week. It was in the beginning of the school year. We had just switched from elementary to prep school. Except for three of us, everyone else was new.
Collecting Nominations for the 2010 Brodies!!!
Yes, it’s that time of year again!! Time to recognize the best LDS-interest sites and material posted to the Internet in the past year!!! Look here for last year’s winners — and if you didn’t win last year, this year it could be you!! (Actually, even if you did win…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: “Happy Holidays” and Other Controversial Statements Edition!
OK, so I know I talked about the “War on Christmas” last week, but it is really heating up! And I just have to share with you the latest: First of all, I hear some folks are skipping Christmas or even hate it! Then, people are attacking Christmas with all…
Get Your Racist Mormon Action Figures Here!
First off, a tip o’ the hat to WestBerkeley Flats for the heads up and humorous title. And a nod to Joanna Brooks’ Dark Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon: Chapter headings in the online version of the Book of Mormon have been changed by LDS…