“Nothing About Us Without Us” — what a great insight, brought to us this past week by the feminist Mormon housewives. Reese Dixon wrote the post comparing the situation of disabled people with the situation of women in the LDS church: in both cases policy decisions are made for them,…
The Alternate Universe that is Utah
Did anyone else catch this gem from the Utah State Legislature: Utah Delivers Vote of No Confidence to ‘Climate Alarmists’. Basically the Utah State Legislature passed a bill saying that global warming was a conspiracy and demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency stop regulating greenhouse gases. Sadly, I can’t say…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Fantastic Stories Edition!
This week, the authors of Outer Blogness have outdone themselves with a collection of analogies, fantasies, dreams, and even down-to-Earth narratives that have absolutely blown me away! First, I was touched by Jeremy Firth’s beautiful tale (with pictures!) of what heaven (if there is one) will look like. Hypatia posted…
Good Church; Bad Church-State
Kudos to the LDS Church for helping Haitians following the earthquake – $4.25 million in aid and counting! No kudos LDS Church/Utah for having lots of members/citizens having their homes foreclosed upon. Utah is just trailing my state, Florida, in foreclosures, but comes in at #5 overall. What gives Utah?…
Excommunicate the Church?
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…
Vote for the Brodies!!!
Guys, there were some really fantastic posts in 2009, so you get two weeks to review the nominees!! Take your time reviewing them. Polls close February 22. Good luck everyone, and have fun!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Your Brain is Playing Tricks Edition!
We had some really interesting discussion of memory and the mind this week! Now I’m sure you’re all familiar with discussion of the incredible fuzziness of Joseph Smith’s memory of the first vision. But here’s a new funny one: it seems that Brigham Young and Lorenzo Snow had a little…
“Up in the Air” rocks, but winning “X-Mormon of the Year” rules.
Walter Kirn explains why the William Law X-Mormon of the Year award means more to him than anything Hollywood has to offer:
The 2009 William Law X-Mormon of the Year: Walter Kirn!!!
Critically-acclaimed author Walter Kirn — whose books and films include Thumbsucker, Up in the Air, andLost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever — has been voted “2009 William Law X-Mormon of the Year”!! Good choice, folks — Walter Kirn is a credit to the X-Mormon community! I hope…
Mormon pollster Gary Lawrence: I’m the idiot who wrote “Six Consequences”
Joanna Brooks has a worthy piece on Mormon Prop 8 involvement currently up on the front page of Religion Dispatches. This next bit is just me filling in a (minor) gap in the reporting: “A primary source of Mormon messaging during the Proposition 8 campaign was the anonymously-authored ‘Six Consequences…