I thought I’d share my reasons for no longer seeing Mormonism as true or particularly useful. True, I have sprinkled some these idea throughout posts on the blog but they are scattered and fairly disorganized. I’ll try here to put them all in one organized place to hopefully avoid the risk of readers merely dismissing [...]
Here we go again with the men, God, and sex thing. More specifically, the thing where men claim that God has told them to have sex with and/or get married to someone else. I found a link to a story posted on a message board I frequent and truthfully I am once again amazed at [...]
Came across this YouTube video recently. Thought it was interesting.
Last week the LDS Church came out in open support of local ordinance banning discrimination against gay men and lesbians in housing and employment to be voted on by the Salt Lake City, Utah city council. Although the he measure likely would have passed it is questionable whether the vote would have been unanimous. In [...]
On October 13, 2009 Dallin H. Oaks, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the LDS Church spoke at BYU-Idaho where he took the gay marriage debate to a whole new level of ridiculous. In his talk titled, Religious Freedom he compared the backlash against the LDS Church for it’s participation in the [...]
Elder Bruce C. Hafen, General Authority and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter-Day Saints, spoke at the 19th annual conference of Evergreen International. Evergreen, a nonprofit group, helps Mormons “overcome homosexual behavior” and “diminish same-sex attraction.” The conference was held at the LDS Church’s Joseph [...]
I saw this on the Colbert Report last night and thought it was hilarious. Personally I think the ad this parodies is ridiculous but then I’m just a “perv” straight guy who doesn’t see gay marriage as harmful to anyone else. I especially love the “paid for” line at the end of the ad.
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After my 4 posts about why Mormonism and polygamy are forever intertwined, I found this polygamy documentary— Lifting The Veil Of Polygamy— on YouTube. While I don’t necessarily approve of the christian proselytizing in this film, it gives a lot about of information about Mormon polygamy. Take a look (the first 2/3 or so is [...]
Lately the LDS Church has been troubled by the association of the terms “polygamy” and “Mormonism” in the media. Leaders in Salt Lake think that the association is unwarranted and is the result of sloppy reporting that doesn’t distinguish between the mainstream church and fundamentalist groups. In America however, people will always consider polygamy a Mormon [...]
Lately the LDS Church has been troubled by the association of the terms “polygamy” and “Mormonism” in the media. Leaders in Salt Lake think that the association is unwarranted and is the result of sloppy reporting that doesn’t distinguish between the mainstream church and fundamentalist groups. In America however, people will always consider polygamy a Mormon [...]
