The Salt Lake Tribune has posted some of the audio recordings of Warren Jeffs instructing women on how they are supposed to have sex with him. I’d say “enjoy” but, well, that just seems inappropriate.
Prayers for Bobby: An Open Letter to Mormon Parents
He must have seen the large tractor trailer approaching from under the Couch Street overpass and timed the jump. Bobby executed a sudden and effortless back flip and disappeared over the railing. The driver tried to swerve, but there was no time Robert Warren Griffith, age twenty years and two…
About those International Conversion Rates
Church spokesman Michael Otterson wrote recently about just how white the Church is not. Although, naturally, Utah will always be associated with the church … today there are more Mormons outside the U.S. than in it. Today, Mormons are Bolivians, Ghanaians, Koreans and Russians, all an integral part of the…
Mythbusting, Mormon-Style!
As we recently discussed, Deseret News was lamenting confusion in media news coverage about Mormons and polygamy — while simultaneously helping it along by providing additional confusing misinformation on the subject. I give them irony bonus points for this statement: And despite confusion in some media coverage, there is no…
Who’s joining the HRC on the Road to Equality in SLC this Weekend?
I just received word that the Human Rights Campaign — in cooperation with Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center is organizing a number of fun events in Salt Lake City this coming weekend! For example, on Saturday afternoon, in the library, there will be a panel on supportive families…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Naughty Fun Edition!
Just check out what Emily and Eliza and Molly and Kuri and Elder Young are up to!! Andrew is thinking of using naughty words, and Monica secretly appreciates getting checked out. Seth and Jill find some amusing Mormon double-meanings (while NPR misses an obvious Mormon connection). And who doesn’t love…
Valerie Hudson Explains Polygamy, An Exception to the Law
Since it is too hot here in the Southeast to do much of anything, I was piddling around on the WEB and came across this article in the Deseret News about the recent Fairs conference. Valerie Hudson, a BYU political science professor, presented, according to the article, her interpretation of…
Romney signs NOM pledge for anti-gay marriage Constitutional Amendment
*sigh* Is it just me, or does it seem like the more the pendulum swings in the direction of equality, the more forces connive to swing it back in the other direction greater than before? The pledge Romney (along with two other GOP hopefuls) signed recently is a commitment to…
The Mormon Wall
I felt disheartened as I walked away from the restaurant. I had just had lunch with a former priesthood leader (whom I call John) who had responded relatively compassionately to a coming out letter I had sent to a few former close family friends. His response, among the few I…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Pioneers and Polygamists Edition!
If it weren’t for the Internet, I probably wouldn’t have remembered that July 24th is Pioneer Day, commemorating the day Brigham Young uttered those famous words “This is the place” (or something like that). BiV asks what the holiday means to Mormons outside of Utah (growing up on the East…