‘Always Pray to the Father’: Mormon Leader Calls Desire for Knowledge of Heavenly Mother ‘Arrogant and Unproductive’
In 1995, in a document called the Family Proclamation, leaders of The Church of Jesus…
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Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence
“What is the Church’s stance on feminism?” This is the question addressed in a brief anonymous…
Read MoreLDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology
Given the ease with which the discontinuation of this policy was accomplished—two pages, three signatures—it’s worthwhile to ask: why now?
Read MoreLDS Leaders Owe Repentance and Apology for Cruelty to LGBTQ People and Their Children
While LDS leadership rescinded its prohibition on baptizing children of LGBTQ parents, they bizarrely claim that neither the church’s nor God’s will have changed. You can all but hear them say, “Look, don’t blame us for the fact that God finds your gayness abhorrent! We’re just messengers!”
Read MoreChanges in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway
It’s gaslighting, moral cowardice, and yet another betrayal to deny women’s anger and pain, only to go and make some of the changes women have sought while still explicitly denying that women ever had any sort of legitimate complaint.
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Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism
I strongly suspect that what Senator Orrin Hatch found so objectionable about the Kavanaugh hearing was that women were allowed to ask questions of a man.
Read MoreMormon ‘Humorist’ Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke
The problem, he writes, is that he “misjudged how she would take [his] sense of humor.” Really? Does he normally get a good response to asking women he’s just met to pretend they’re prostitutes?
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LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism
I doubt that Latter-day Saints are any more likely in 2018 to renounce a practice ingrained over lifetimes than they were in 1982.
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Meet the New (Straight White American Male) Mormon President
On Tuesday, Russell M. Nelson, a 93-year-old retired heart surgeon, was announced as the seventeenth…
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When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net
“My situation isn’t isolated to Mormonism. But to suggest that it doesn’t exist in Mormonism is just bullshit. Abuse of power happens in every religion.”
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