A friend sent me a link to this letter in The Daily Universe: Viewpoint: Defending Proposition 8 — It’s time to admit the reasons The short version for those who don’t want to follow the link: None of the crappy reasons given by Mormons and the Mormon leadership for passing Proposition 8 even made it ...
If you agree that this is shameful exploitation of a senseless murder, please tweet this: Mollie Ziegler Hemingway wants to pin a murder on Prop 8 backlash. Don’t let her. http://bit.ly/byhv0b #MZHemingway #GetReligion #Mormon And leave a comment at Mollie’s post. Thanks. P.S. The below ad currently displays next to Mollie’s Christianity Today article from ...
I whole-heartedly support the advice not to burn too many bridges on your way out of the LDS church. But, on the other side of the coin, it’s hard when believers take your disaffection too personally … to the point of debating whether it’s offensive to order coffee in an airport with a believer. Innocent, ...
Welcome! Reddit Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves. Good grief, Dave Stewart is a dork. ...
Nagla and her crew obviously shot this on a slightly tighter budget than what Josh and Aron had to work with. Not that I begrudge our dueling skateboarders the benefit of the best production values that Mormon and Scientologist money can buy (Josh and Aron deserve no less, considering that they’ve both probably already paid ...
Shall we stop picking on the CoJCoL-dS’s new publicity campaign? I would but it’s too funny!! The latest is that the Mormon Times is calling working women the “warts” of Mormonism (hat tip). Go read the article for yourself (in case I’m misreading it; Andrew S. gives them the benefit of the doubt), but in ...
h/t exmormon.reddit.com and lds.org. Hi, I’m Aron and I’m *not* a Crip. And I’m Josh, but as I explain in my clip (watch and wait for it), I’m definitely *not* a Scientologist. Whatever, Josh and Aron. Check this out. I’m the coolest Franciscan on the planet. Or at least, I’m not *this* fellow priest (NSFW). ...
I was very sick when I converted to Mormonism. I like to joke that I wasn’t getting enough oxygen to the brain, but the more mundane truth is that I was confronted with the reality of my mortality, and like many people, I panicked. I couldn’t really die, right? I’m too solid, too complex to ...
Hi Everyone. DJ Williams, a somewhat infrequent commenter on MSP, recently published a book that, while not primarily about Mormonism, addresses it as it relates to BDSM. I recently read and reviewed the book and DJ has agreed to respond to comments on MSP. Here’s the review: Even though the book doesn’t actually do this ...
Click here. These were great questions that were tough to answer. *wipes brow* ...
I know, we’re supposed to be talking about Mormonism here at Main Street Plaza. Thing is, I happened to notice this tweet from a young Christian street preacher who’s been complaining that he might have to move his Free Speech to a different spot in Manti at the next Mormon Miracle Pageant: “No gay jokes ...
I’ve been humming “A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief” the last few days. Singing was always one of my favorite parts of church, and one of the things I really missed when I left, though I’ve found other groups to sing with now. I still love many of the hymns though, feel a catch in ...
Update: Latest reporting from The Salt Lake Tribune: Manti wants to sell street block to LDS Church Lokai: LDS Church to Censor Christians by Buying Manti Road? Bele: Anti-Mormons whine to the ACLU about sale of Manti city street to LDS. Headlines, excerpts and random linkage: ABC4: Manti could sell block of street to LDS ...
Update: Jeremy over at Good As You has now filed his report on this news: Out and proud NOMmers eat away your rights, save room for ‘Deseret’ Rather than reading my random thoughts below, I’d suggest clicking over and reading Jeremy’s post. For an LDS perspective, I’d suggest checking out this insider’s view of the ...
Chad apparently heard about the contest we’re planning here at MSP. Meanwhile, Holly Welker weighs in at The Huffington Post with her take on the Mormon PR campaign. ...
We’ve just gotten yet another comment asking the above question. I feel like we’ve answered this on MSP about a million times — it’s probably our biggest “FAQ” — but I don’t think we have one go-to post where people give their various answers and explanations. Mine’s a little like Jonathan’s: it’s basically a fun ...
One of the big stereotypes about people who leave the church is that anyone who would do such a terrible thing must have done so because they were too lazy to follow God’s commandments or because they just wanted to sin. We’ve probably been accused (either explicitly or implicitly) of these (or a variation thereof) ...
As usual, we’ve had some fascinating political commentary this week in Outer Blogness, but — for fun — let’s start with the funny stories this week! Eliza Snitch recounts the three part tale of bringing home R-Rated movies to her BYU apartment. In other Zoobie stories, j-dog is not impressed by his fellow Zoobies’ attempts ...
Hi Everyone, In order to implement a new feature request we had to upgrade MSP to a new theme. It’s not all that different from the old one; we know how everyone on here hates change! ;) Anyway, the new feature request is related to the comments. You should now see below the “comments” box ...
[tl;dr—Book of Mormon critics can be guilty of confirmation bias, too.] This must be my week for Book of Mormon analysis, a last hurrah of ex-Mormon geekery before the Fall semester starts next week. Vernal Holley in his book Book of Mormon Authorship compiled a list of Book of Mormon place names that resemble place ...
According to a Mormon Times report of BYU Education Week, that first bit of litter that misses the trash can is the beginning of the slippery slope to divorce court. That’s right. Littering, among a litany of other behaviors, is a form of selfishness, and selfishness destroys marriage. The list included not wanting to have children, ...
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. (Joseph Smith, Documentary History of the Church 4:461) Following the conversation about the ...
In this post, we’re chatting with the author of a mormon.org profile that caught our attention. Chino, I’m sad for people like you because you deny the fullness of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. You choose to put down others like myself who have finally found peace and acceptance with their homosexuality. Rather than ...
Urban Koda’s thoughts on “Riding” made me reflect on a lot of my hang-ups that can be traced directly back to teachings of the Church. Imagine a 13-year-old girl who believes she will be eternally cut off from the presence of God unless she repents by confessing to her middle-aged male bishop that she masturbates. And ...
The first spoof of that Hi, I’m Josh, I am a follower of Jesus Christ so yep, I’m a Mormon ad: Who knew so many Mormons were into parkour? Just like me! Awesome. Judges, please turn in your score cards below. ...
I was going to call this one “surprises edition” since I’ve been on vacation in Italy — hence almost everything that happened on the Internet in the past fortnight was a surprise to me yesterday (when I finally sat down and read the 1000+ blog entries in my reader). But it soon became clear that ...
You knew it was coming, and now it’s here’s: the first exmo response to the LDS mormon.org ad campaign. “Hi, my name is Robert, and I’m an ex-Mormon.” Domo arigato, Mister Ex-Mo-Roberto! ...
So, just to keep people apprised, I wanted to lay out the arguments of the supporters of Prop 8 in their motion for a stay, plus provide some of my own commentary. They say Walker ignored the following “facts”: ...
A few months after my husband and I moved from Arizona to North Dakota, but before we had officially resigned our membership, the Mormons tracked us down, as they are famous for doing. (FSM help any Mormons who need to enter the witness protection program.) I wasn’t home when they came calling, but my husband ...
HAL: “Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.” Of course, as HAL learns, the problem with making such ...