I caught this newspaper article in my Google News alert about a grassroots campaign by Mormons to call the leadership of the religion to task for its involvement in Prop. 8. Intrigued by the possibility, I followed the link to the website: http://www.excommunicatethechurch.com. From what I can gather, this is…
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Church Involvement in Prop. 8
Anyone else catch this post today on towleroad.com? A document from the Church of Latter Day Saints to the Proposition 8 campaign was revealed at the trial today, and contained this instructive: Mormon With respect to Prop. 8 campaign, key talking points will come from campaign, but cautious, strategic, not…
American Evangelicalism leads to death penalty for Ugandan homosexuals?
Caught this story in the NYTimes today. Apparently 3 evangelicals from the U.S. spoke in Uganda about how to cure homosexuality and about how terrible it is. As a result, some Ugandan politicians put together a bill that would invoke the death penalty for homosexual behavior. The evangelicals: Scott Lively…
Deseret News = Propaganda Arm of the LDS Church?
A colleague sent me a link to this discussion on KCPW. It’s worth the 20 minutes it takes to listen to it. The focus is on the response to Dallin Oaks’s talk in the Utah media. As the author of several publications on media coverage of the LDS, I didn’t…
The Horrors of Anti-Mormon Persecution
Probably in a weak effort to defend the clearly ridiculous statements of Dallin Oaks that have led to a well-deserved uproar over the last week, the LDS Church linked to this report from The Heritage Foundation: The Price of Prop 8. While I don’t mean to make light of the…
“Let’s talk about our relationship”: Ockham’s Razor, by Alan Michael Williams
Antelopes and giraffes have a few things in common, right? Four legs, both mammals. We consider them fundamentally different creatures. Now lets say a third animal comes running alongside them. One that resembles an antelope, but it also has a number of qualities that a giraffe has. Maybe it has…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Everything is coming up gay again!
Elder Hafen’s talk has certainly sent some ripples through blogspace! I would start with ECS’s research piece (correcting Hafen’s many citation errors). The Swearing Elders expand on one of ECS’s points, and the Third Wave Mormon gives a two-part point-by-point rebuttal of Hafen’s talk (as does Living with Mormons in…
What the church really offers to gay male Mormons: Jonathan Langford’s “No Going Back”
“In truth, I believe this book will save someones life,” says one of the blurbs in Jonathan Langford’s novel No Going Back. I agree, it’s quite likely. Through the experiences of Paul (a gay Mormon teen) — and of the LDS bishop who takes a special interest in his young…
Bruce C. Hafen, LDS Church’s official gaybasher
If you ever needed a reason to distance yourself from the LDS Church, Bruce C. Hafen of the Seventy has just given you one. Oddly, this talk was linked to from the blog of the PR Department of the LDS Church as though it is worth reading. I’m not sure…
A quick Q&A with Todd Whitaker about that testimony of his
Todd Whitaker recently bore his testimony. The video of Todd testifying to his ward has now gone viral. As you may have seen, it was not your typical Mormon F&T meeting fare. I caught up with Todd by email and he agreed to answer a few questions.