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Jon Huntsman Jr.’s Sex Pistols Phase Explained

By Joanna Brooks

…ood thing that Huntsman has his dad, because it appears that most of the folks he formerly worked with in Utah (including both senators and the attorney general) are lining up with Mitt Romney. As are most Mormon donors along with the state he once governed. One Utah-based politico is calling it Huntsman’s “Utah problem.” Jake Garn asks, “If he can’t generate support from those with whom he worked most closely, why should folks in New Hampshire an…

“Not a Fan of the Undergarments”: A Mormon Mother Blogs

By Karen Maezen Miller

…B. Roth. Daily posts tell stories from Roth’s Mormon household in Layton, Utah, where she wrangles an amusing brood including two young sons, an infant daughter, her live-in mother, and her husband Greg, 29—who is by all accounts sage and sane and works as a software developer for a video game company. In a roundabout way, which seems to be Brandy’s style, her 6-year-old son Crichton was named (sort of) for the author Michael, nine-month-old daug…

Mormon Feminism is Back

By Joanna Brooks

…n from their homes in the Midwest and crossed the plains to Utah. Women in Utah first won the right to vote in 1870. And Mormon women in the late nineteenth century were sent back east to train as medical doctors, encouraged by Brigham Young himself, who said in 1869: We believe that women are useful, not only to sweep houses, wash dishes, make beds and raise babies, but they should stand behind the counter, study law or physic, or become good boo…

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

…divide.” Wardle says that a friend of his, a judge who grew up in a small Utah mountain town, heard people describe the day “when the apostle came to town and said everyone who lives on this side of the street becomes Republicans, and people on that side of the street should register as Democrats.” Since then the LDS church, despite its deep social conservatism, has largely remained scrupulously nonpartisan. Every election year, the church sends…

Sister Wives Stars File Suit to Legalize Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…tated that polygamy was practiced by a tiny fraction of nineteenth-century Utah Mormons, 2 to 5%, a number that Riess notes is an “error.” At least 20-30% of Mormons—mostly from the “elite” segments of Mormon society—practiced plural marriage in the late nineteenth century. Offshoot Mormon polygamous groups in Utah are looking to the Brown case to bring dignity to their families after decades of living more or less “on the underground” and relie…

How Not to Address the Jobs Crisis

By Joanna Brooks

…ng recycled footage of a Huntsman body-double riding motocross through the Utah red rock wilderness. The video also compares Huntman’s record on job creation in Utah (lots of flashing “#1”s on the video) to Romney’s in Massachusetts (#47). Because nothing says “I feel your pain” to the nation’s long-term unemployed like seeing a rich white dude who says he’s “#1” tear it up on vacation. Neither Romney’s egghead approach and nor the Jerry-Bruckheim…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…ets Jerry Ricks, a handsome LDS missionary who sends her a plane ticket to Utah after he leaves Austria. Jerry’s stint as a missionary exacerbates his hatred of rules; he’s unhappy to find himself saddled with a wife who insists everyone pray six or seven times a day and get out of bed early each morning for an hour of scripture reading. His wife, for her part, is beyond disappointed to find herself married to a man who cheats on her, uses his job…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…status/1459343242038636548 The quote was used to demonstrate how the 2015 “Utah Compromise” on housing and employment laws was a “win-win” compromise for the Church and nondiscrimination advocates like Williams and should serve as a model for the rest of the country. In that great compromise, the Church gained additional protections for religious freedom and religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws in the “most sensitive areas” of church…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…best thing for Alex might in fact be to get her on the next bus out of her Utah Mormon contexts and into a safer environment with a foster family. But Burke listened to the voice of his client, who was insistent that she wanted to go home to her family, but with protections that allowed her to “date girls.” Listening to Alex’s voice, he recognized that home and family remain essential to young people, even through conflicts that may seem irresolva…

Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org

By Deborah Jian Lee

…multiethnic students, some of whom identify as queer, at the University of Utah. Together they share “intense and beautiful and crazy stories,” he said. “None of them come from a Christian background, but all of them are asking questions about Jesus.” Students and alumni tell him of the impact he’s had on their lives and that, especially for multiethnic queer people, apart from the space Vasquez has created, “There is no ministry that will honor u…