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Q: How to get single Mormons to attend LDS Institute classes?

A: Guilt and sex. Tonight? Oh, behave. Rrrrr. h/t: r/exmormon and t.t.a.n.s. See also Mormon Ad FAIL: I know I shouldn’t be shocked and outraged that this comes from a church whose finest entertainment moment was the depiction of Johnny Lingo bartering for an 8-Cow Wife. And I know I’ve heard more returned missionaries than ...

Mormon Times says religion can be bad, but not theirs

12.25.2010 · Posted in Abuse, Health, Hypocrisy, Joseph Smith, mormontimes.com

I couldn’t help but stop by MormonTimes.com for this headline, “Elizabeth Smart case shows best and worst of religion’s influence“.  I thought since Brian David Mitchell is a splinter from Mormonism the writers at MormonTimes might suggest something really “out there,” like, maybe, Mormonism can, in fact, be bad for humanity if certain ideas and ...

Mormon homophobia is so passé

10.25.2010 · Posted in COB, Health, Homosexuality

Even major corporations in Utah have seen the benefits of equality, like Intermountain Healthcare, which extended “domestic partner” benefits to same-sex couples last week.  Props to IHC! Of course, what I mean by passé is that it is really only passé in corporate America to be homophobic.  That same is not true in pseudo-corporate, religious ...

The Nature of Sexuality

Todd just found a youtube video of the documentary Legacies about the treatment of Mormon gays by their church: Spencer Kimball’s attitudes about sexuality, unfortunately, can only be characterized as superstition. In the Mormon case, superstition is intertwined with claims to personal revelation. The latter is defined such that the superstition cannot be legitimately questioned ...