In case you missed it, there is an editorial in the Deseret News about the criticism LDS Inc. is receiving over Boyd Packer’s homophobic talk during General Conference. The editorial is both dishonest and weakly argued. Let’s start with the half-truths: This focused attention on the LDS Church is deeply…
Category: Boyd Packer
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Damage Control Edition!
This past week the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints learned an important lesson in how the Internet changes everything! Our story begins when President Boyd K. Packer chose to make some rather unfortunate remarks in General Conference. Many have pointed out that — given his…
HRC and Mormons speaking past one another?
I could have posted this as a comment in the previous thread about the thousands of gay activists in SLC who are there because of Boyd Packer’s remarks. But what I want to say about the situation, I felt warrants a new post. Something I want to know is how…
4,500 protesters encircle Temple Square
Tons of photos and video here. CNN: Friday’s intriguing people: Eric Ethington AP report w/ photos at the link: Utah Gay Activists Protest Mormon Church Remarks Pride in Utah: 4500 Protest Against Boyd K Packer And LGBT Suicides Mormon Expression: Episode 87: The October 7th 2010 LDS Protest John Larsen…
Will this hateful rhetoric continue once Boyd K. Packer has passed on?
(Pat Bagley cartoon distributed under license to Main Street Plaza) Top LDS Apostle Boyd K. Packer: Mormons will always oppose Satan’s counterfeit marriages (transcript attached below) The age of homophobes is over. They are a throwback to a different age, when people were ignorant of the realities of sexual identity….
Oldies but Goodies: Testimony of a Dissident
A while back another blogger asked me to submit an essay about my Mormon experience. Probably, for good reasons he changed his mind and never published it. Since it is already written and might shed some light on my argument at Times and Seasons, I might as well publish it…
Gordon Hinckley’s Address at the Multi-Stake Conference
Thanks to Saganist, Main Street Plaza can also provide you with a transcript of President Hinckley’s talk. Interestingly, this speech is based on an earlier one that Gordon Hinckley published in the Ensign in 1984 (PDF, scroll to p. 4). Among other things, he appears to be reminiscing about the…
Transcript of Boyd Packer’s Address at Multi-Stake Conference
Editorial Note: I have previously reported about rumors of Boyd Packer’s and Gordon Hinckley’s response to criticism of Julie Beck’s conference address, which has not only been discussed with a variety of points of view on the Bloggernacle and the DAMU but also by readers posting on the websites of…
Boyd Packer About Sex, Gender and the Priesthood
I want to thank my friend Todd for inspiring this post. After excommunicating the group of LDS historians and feminist theologians known as the September Six, LDS Apostle Boyd Packer explained why in his opinion women do not need the priesthood during the 1993 October General Conference. Once a man…