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Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!

chanson, December 17, 2017December 31, 2017

X-Mormon-2017-300x223 Hey folks — it’s that time of year again! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2017!!

As I said a few weeks ago, it seems like the “Mormon Moment” is over. It seems like there haven’t been as many high-profile excommunications or original public demonstrations during General Conference in 2017 as there have been in the past. So X-Mormons have been out there doing some cool other stuff instead!

Here are my first two picks for nominees:

  • Jacinda Ardern — The new Prime Minister of New Zealand is an X-Mormon!!
  • Kip Thorne — This X-Mormon just won the Nobel Prize in Physics!!

Of course there are always people doing some Mormon-related things that get them into the news as well. For example, Sam Young started a petition to protect youth from sexually-oriented “worthiness” interviews. (Note: he might still be an active/believing/participating member of the CoJC-L-dS — and I think we’ve decided that that would disqualify him…? — so I’ll hold off on officially nominating him until getting more info on this point.)

*** ETA: It looks like we will probably go back to the old system of not excluding active members (“The X stands for any kind of non-standard Mormon“) because it would exclude two of our main contenders: Sam Young and Savannah. ***

So, who would you like to see nominated? Did you see an excommunication that should have gotten more coverage?

Note: The William Law X-Mormon of the Year award 2017 is for real-life actions that X-Mormons performed in 2017. It’s not intended as an award for content. So if you know of someone who made the best Mo-related film or published an amazing book or article, performed a song, etc. — save those nominations for the Brodie Awards that will be coming up in a couple of weeks.

I look forward to your nominations!

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Comments (9)

  1. 4blockhead says:
    December 17, 2017 at 7:20 am

    Savannah

  2. Cindy says:
    December 17, 2017 at 8:56 am

    Mike Norton

  3. chanson says:
    December 17, 2017 at 9:45 am

    I’m following the comments on the reddit thread, and — since it looks like two of our most important contenders (Sam Young and Savannah) would fail on the technicality of being active members — I think we’ll probably go back to the old system of not excluding people on that basis.

    I had just floated this rule because a number of commenters weren’t happy when Joanna Brooks won, but, as Chino Blanco said, “The award is called X-Mormon in order to avoid precisely the kind of qualifying/disqualifying litmus test based on whatever some record on file in the COB might say.” So let’s go back to that.

  4. Donna Banta says:
    December 17, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Oh boy! Nothing says Christmas like X-Mormon of the Year. And I like that you’re returning to the old policy.

  5. Chino Blanco says:
    December 18, 2017 at 5:47 am

    Tough year for anyone looking to outshine Savannah. I suspect the MormonLeaks crew would have been easy favorites any other year. They kinda cracked the code when it comes to story placement (NYT, Newsweek, etc.) and the knock-on effect of wider attention for r/exmormon has been great to watch (25K new subscribers this year). But they’ll hopefully still be doing their thing next year.

  6. Donna Banta says:
    December 18, 2017 at 6:11 pm

    In the spirit of the “Me Too” movement I wonder if Elizabeth Smart might be a candidate for contributing to and taking part in the production of the bio-pic, “I Am Elizabeth Smart.” I confess I haven’t seen it yet, but I understand it’s very frank and uncompromisingly truthful. Also I know that a film is better suited for the Brodies. But for her courageous honesty, perhaps Elizabeth might get a nod here as well? Also she continues to advocate abuse victims. Just a thought.

    I agree Savannah has the inside track.

  7. Gileriodekel says:
    December 19, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    Definitely Savannah

  8. aerin says:
    December 25, 2017 at 10:46 am

    We could honor Grant Palmer posthumously; he passed away earlier this year. We don’t generally do posthumous awards; as pointed out in the OP, the award is for real life actions in 2017. The Insider’s View of Mormon Origins is an influential work for mormons and x-mormons, but wasn’t published in 2017.

  9. PrivacyPPratt says:
    January 2, 2018 at 10:32 am

    Savannah. No question.

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