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Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…tinuously rushed to print more ballots after running out several times. In Utah, voting lines stretched around several city blocks, districts that were used to double-digit numbers were overwhelmed with thousands of participants, and the vast majority were adamant Sanders supporters. The night was unprecedented in the modern Mormon world. https://twitter.com/sltrib/status/710953531021221888 Close observers expected the “Mormon Vote” to go Sanders’…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…ril, but when no response was observed Concern Citizens sent the list to a number of Utah sheriffs, police chiefs, legislators, and media outlets. Governor Gary Herbert has called for an investigation to determine if state records were improperly accessed to compile the list. In Utah, where conservative politics are dominated by the membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it’s pretty safe to assume that a significant number…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…, not the fourth century … You’re not free to practice your religion in my airline seat.’ ‘This is male entitlement .. the height of male arrogance.’ One comment referred to this as a ‘back of the bus’ issue; as in, women being asked to move in such circumstances was tantamount to assigning them a lesser status as citizens and lower dignity as human beings. Other readers proposed that airlines set aside special seating for men requiring such accom…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…st LGBTQ equality, and many continue to. But as was evident at this year’s Utah Pride, there is also a fast-growing number of Mormons who are working for change. They may be less visible—after all, our society, and the media in particular, privilege polarizing perspectives—but these Mormons are there, doing difficult but important work. Among them is Joanna Brooks, who served as the Mormon panelist at the conference. She has been an advocate for L…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…im. So intertwined is Mormonism with the socioeconomic status quo that its Utah members often take the Republican Party to be God’s Party. Mormon Utah is arguably the most conservative state in the Union, being the only one in which the third-party candidate for president in the 1992 election, Ross Perot, finished second, beating Bill Clinton. Mormon narratives borrowed from Calvinism favor the job-creating elite (heroes among the Mormon “elect”)…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…nizer Erika Munson, a straight, churchgoing LDS mother of five from Sandy, Utah, focused on one very simple message: that as followers of Jesus Christ, Mormons should show love to LGBT people. Munson sent word out across the Mormon grapevine, through email, phone, and Facebook, inviting fellow churchgoing and believing Mormons to join her at the Pride Parade in Sunday dress. And Mormons responded by the hundreds, arriving at the parade route yeste…

As Mormon Lay Clergy Are Deported, a Divide on Immigration

By Joanna Brooks

…. And just last weekend, a majority of delegates to the overwhelmingly LDS Utah GOP convention voted to repeal HB 116, an element of Utah Compact legislation that created guest worker status for immigrant laborers. Put it all together—LDS Utah Republicans voting against Church-sponsored immigration reform legislation, while their fellow Mormons are deported from Utah in chains—and you have as clear a picture as any of the challenge the immigration…

Utah’s New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism

By Joanna Brooks

…rt state “nullification” of federal laws. He even characterized the 70% of Utah land protected as federal wilderness as occupied territory. Clearly, the Mike Lee for Senate campaign was designed to appeal to the deeply held feelings of LDS people who do take Skousen seriously. Lee’s campaign secured an endorsement from Cleon Skousen’s son Paul. It implicitly and explicitly appealed to Mormon folk doctrine sacralizing the US Constitution and prophe…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…is simply groundless. East Africans are among the most adept users of cell phones in the world. The plot twists at the end raise questions about the racial politics of the show. Only a threat of American violence saves the villagers from the tyranny of the local warlord. Only the ingenuity of the white men provides Africans a useful religion. The dewy-eyed boys from Utah share the genius of Joseph Smith: the Yankee spirit of invention. The musical…