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Mormon Women Declare “Wear Pants to Church Day” December 16

By Joanna Brooks

…has been. It has been covered by all the television news networks in Salt Lake City, by the Salt Lake Tribune, the Associated Press, and the feminist blogosphere. Within the world of Mormonism, it has struck a nerve in positive and negative ways. There have been some incredibly nasty comments online and personal messages to organizers. I’ve been thinking about why the reaction is so negative, and it clearly comes from a place of fear that allows…

Gay Mormons Tie the Knot

By Johnny Townsend

…a high priest, my aunt a former Relief Society president. Gary’s is an old Salt Lake family with generations in the Church. One of his brothers is a branch president of a Spanish branch in Salt Lake, and the other is a former bishop and current temple worker. Gary’s nephews and nieces have served missions in Ireland, Italy, Argentina, Ethiopia, and Thailand. You can’t just leave Mormonism behind when you have that kind of connection. I’m a writer…

Mormon Leader: Religious Freedom Under Attack by Gay Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…on, especially inasmuch as the tire-slashing incident has made the news in Salt Lake City, but has not yet been acknowledged by the campus newspaper or University officials. Another LDS RD reader made the equally provocative observation that 18 years ago Oaks himself sounded a very different tune on the role of religion in public life, writing in the LDS Church publication The Ensign: If churches or church leaders choose to oppose or favor a parti…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ld reverberate throughout the global LDS church. More from Riess: … As the Salt Lake Tribune reported, Elder [D. Todd] Christofferson explained that the Church won’t take disciplinary action against Mormons who support same-sex marriage. In fact, he affirmed that they can even be public about such support by posting about their views on social media, belonging to gay-friendly Mormon organizations like Affirmation, and marching in gay pride parades…

BSA Gay Okay?—Delay.

By Joanna Brooks

…ng inside LDS Church headquarters. [UPDATE: The LDS Newsroom disputed the Salt Lake Tribune’s report that the language of the statement had been changed, explaining that there have been instead “two statements address[ing] different questions being asked throughout the day by multiple media outlets.”] That’s because the debate within Mormon communities about Scouting reflects rapidly shifting conversations within Mormonism about the place of gay…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…raphy!” Much of the response has been positive. A recent editorial by Salt Lake City art historian Alexandra Karl in the Salt Lake Tribune called Anderson’s work “truly groundbreaking” in the way it “diverges from her [LDS] contemporaries and predecessors, by specifically targeting LDS ‘modesty culture.’” (As if to illustrate Karl’s point about Utah’s collective squeamishness about nudity, the Tribune did not provide a link to Anderson’s site.) Ma…

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…church also objects to the fact that the company is using a picture of the Salt Lake temple on its website. But faithful Latter-day Saints are encouraged to use the temple as an image of aspiration. They’re told to display it in their homes, and many, many Mormons have an image of the temple carved on their tombstones. Will the church try to put a stop to that practice, by going after either the engravers or the families of the individuals who wan…

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…umber of marriages within the church has declined by nearly half. Only the number of Catholic funerals has held steady. And while the number of Catholics overall has remained level, that’s largely due to Hispanic migration to the US; some 40 percent of those born Catholic have left the church. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. The church Francis will encounter is fundamentally different in character from the church of John Paul in two import…

A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…r an exemption from providing that coverage. Conscience Over the Bishop in Phoenix Let’s talk process. Catholicism has a well-developed theory about cooperating in “evil.” While I don’t for an instant believe that either using contraception or having your tubes tied is evil, the Catholic hierarchy does think these decisions are wrong, and that Catholic individuals and institutions cannot be actors in providing such services. But, the magisterium (…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…ctually about the nominal Master, but his disciple, Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix). By shifting the emphasis toward the disciple, The Master makes for a more interesting study in charismatic leaders. Anthropologist Charles Lindholm has written that, “Charisma is, above all, a relationship, a mutual mingling of the inner selves of leader and follower.” The chemistry between Hoffman and Phoenix suggests this dynamic. It is not simply that Dodd is a…