The CoJCoL-dS has a very interesting way of including God in the process of deciding who gets to be the next supreme leader: of the eligible prophets, seers, and revelators, the president is the one with the most seniority that God hasn’t killed. Yet. Now it looks like God is…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Opposition Edition!
What’s up with those who voted “opposed” in conference? Maybe this interview will help explain it. One person who participated (in spirit) described some reasons: My main issue is that the church needs to have a way for the average member to bring up an issue without being demonized. He…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Conference Review Edition!
General Conference was last weekend, so this SiOB is the traditional wrap-up of the commentary after everyone’s digested it a bit. Especially the nardoo: My faith is starving, full of nutritionless spiritual nardoo but too weak to stand, and I’m scared that our tiny baby steps of progress—women praying in…
Thoughts on RFRAs and Nondiscrimination
Renewed interest in Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (e.g., Indiana, Arkansas) has arisen because everyone knows the US Supreme Court will okay gay marriage for the country in a few months. Conservative religious people and entities want to be in a comfortable position when this uncomfortable reality hits — they want…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Easter Conference Drama Edition!
What’s the best way to spend a long holiday weekend? If you said “watching General Conference“, you may be Mormon! Normally the most boring activity known to man (the faithful give tips on making your kids watch and staying awake), this conference was livened up by five people who decided…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Y Be Free edition!
The challenge to BYU’s accreditation has hit the presses!! Let’s see what happens! Theoretically it’s OK to be gay at BYU, but not everybody got the memo. In the meantime, FreeBYU has started posting profiles. And what is the CoCJoL-dS up to these days? I mean, besides conference. Not what…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: New directions edition!
This week’s biggest topic was Elder Christofferson’s talk about how it’s now (sort of?) OK for faithful Mormons to support gay marriage. See this great analysis: Oops, he does go ahead and mention that by short term he really means “all of mortal life†– and then he doesn’t bother…
LDS Church becoming more and more Orwellian on gay issues
The Presbyterian Church voted today to alter its stance on marriage: Marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and a woman, to love and support each other for the rest of their lives. This is the kind of definition that attempts to blend the old with…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Empire Keeps Striking Back Edition!
Another blogger has been threatened with excommunication! Kirk Van Allen criticized D&C 132 and was told by local leaders to delete or modify the post, or else! (Don’t miss FAIR’s 31-page rebuttal!) In addition to that story, Nearing Kolob has been doing some really interesting investigation into the changes in…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Sucked into the vortex edition!
Remember the fun we had last week with creative apologetics? Well, this week we learned that it’s only fun and games until someone actually tries to follow the footnotes and gets sucked into the vortex! It started on a fascinating note as Runtu provided an detailed and specific analysis of…