Showing posts with label LDS Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LDS Church. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Commentary on Respect for Marriage Act and How Religious Groups — Notably, U.S. Catholic Bishops — Are Dealing with This Issue

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PRRI, " Support for Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ People, by Religious Affiliation, 2015-2021 " An offering of interrela...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (2)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874), in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow The essay below is the second part of Ruth Krall'...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

The Roseanne Débacle: Time to Talk About Roseanne's Roots in Salt Lake City and Mormon Culture?

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Literally all that Roseanne had to do was NOT call a black woman a monkey and she... just.... couldn't 😂😂 White supremacy is a he...
Friday, July 8, 2016

"This Is Actually Happening, and It's Real, and It's Right Now": Christian Churches Responding (or Refusing to Respond) to Pastoral Needs of LGBTQ Human Beings

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Gay (former) Mormon Tyler Glenn in a video he posted to Facebook on 5 July (the video above), about the suicide of LGBTQ Mormon youth aft...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Reported Spike in Suicides of LGBT Mormon Youth After LDS Church Enacts New Gay-Excluding Policy: Some Links for You

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As Chris Morley notes in a series of comments here yesterday ( this is his initial comment in the thread), a story has made the rounds t...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

LDS Church Dissociates Itself from Bundys: More on Mormon Connection to Oregon "White Privilege Performance Art"

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Yesterday, I wrote about how one of the fascinating aspects of the way in which non-mainstream sources, at least, are reporting abou...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

NY Times on Mormons "Leaving the Church in Droves" and the Alternative, Churches That "Embrace All People": A Message U.S. Catholic Bishops Refuse to Get

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I shared the following with my circle of Facbook friends today, and thought I'd now post it here: 
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Feedback from Mormon Experts About New Policy Targeting Children of Gay Parents: "Terrible Mistake" That Will Be Regretted Down the Line

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In the Salt Lake Tribune today, Peggy Fletcher Stacks reports that, as some Mormon experts respond to the public demonstrations of a...

Mormons Organize Mass Protests to Push Back Against Abuse of Their LGBT Family Members and Friends: What's Wrong with Catholics?

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My two-week fast from blogging is nearing its close, and I'll now break silence again to share some questions with you. They'...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Telling My Story as LDS Church Refuses Baptism to Children of Gay Couples, and Houston and Kentucky Demonstrate Continued Political Power of Gay-Baiting

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Dear friends, I'm posting today, despite my fast from posting, because — well — there's something I'd like to say! And he...
Friday, March 20, 2015

End-of-Week Items: Utah, Arkansas, Religious Freedom and Anti-Gay Laws, and Fixations of Conservotrad Catholics

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A miscellany of end-of-week news items or blog postings I've read, thought were good, and want to pass on to you as the week ends...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

LDS Leaders Hold "Historic" Press Conference to Announce Support for Gay Rights, and Critics Suggest Mormons Are Punking the Media: My Response

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As you may have read, this week top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints issued a statement saying the foll...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Local "Religious Liberty" Conference Sponsored by LDS Church with Assistance of Catholic Bishop of Arkansas: Right-Wing Politics Disguised as Religion

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Someone I know heard the presentations today at this interfaith program on religious liberty sponsored by the Church of Jesus Chr...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

In Online Blog Conversations (Especially About Religion), Where Are the Women Commenters?

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At her Flunking Sainthood site , Mormon blogger Jana Riess asks an interesting question yesterday: Where are all the Mormon women blo...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Mormons Celebrating Pope Francis's Affirmation of Traditional Family Values: Wait, What?

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Big headline in Salt Lake City's Deseret News  yesterday:
Tuesday, November 4, 2014

EriKa Munson on Meeting of World Congress of Families in Salt Lake: "Attempt by the WCF to Divide One Family from Another and Promote Fear among Friends and Neighbors Is Sad and Dangerous"

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In Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune , EriKa Munson, Mormon mother and co-founder of the group Mormons Building Bridges , which seeks to...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

More News: Updates to Stories about Archbishop Nienstedt, Rev. Frank Schaefer, David Gushee, and LDS Church

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And finally this morning, some odds and ends providing updates on stories we've discussed here in the past: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Church of England's Choice to Accept Female Bishops: What Will Be the Effect on the Roman Catholic Church? Some Musings

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As the Church of England votes at long last to accept women bishops, Catholic News Service, the USCCB's  Pravda , is already (an...
Friday, June 27, 2014

More on Odd Confluence of Concern of LDS, Catholic, and Right-Wing Evangelical Leaders Today: Religious Politics and Strange Bedfellows

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Yesterday, I wrote about how strange (but not strange in the least, as we think about it) it is that religious communities so wildl...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

What Do the LDS Church and Catholic Church Have in Common These Days? Think Facebook, Job Dismissal, and Excommunication

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What do the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Catholic church, and the churches of the right wing of American evangeli...