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400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…ve” members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered in Salt Lake City on Sunday morning to walk in the Salt Lake City, Utah LGBT Pride Parade with the grassroots-organized “Mormons Building Bridges” group. From the beginning, Mormons Building Bridges founder and organizer 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 shou…

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

By Mary Barker

…ed with the noblesse oblige of a Roosevelt. As the police commissioner for Salt Lake City, he donated a pay raise to buy sports equipment for the Central City Community Center, and when the Republicans tried to block the police from forming a union, my dad not only defended their right to it, but also helped them to set it up. My mom was surprised one morning by a Native American gentleman at the doorstep who handed her an envelope full of cash. I…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…p some food and, with french fries in our laps, he gave me a quick tour of Salt Lake City, demonstrating an intimate knowledge of the area and the people who call it home. Alasdair, a student at Brigham Young University (a private university owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, originally established in 1875), was the student organizer of “Intersecting Convictions,” the interfaith conference for which I had come t…

Utah’s First Same-Sex Married Couple: A Weight Has Been Lifted From Our Heart

By Joanna Brooks

On Friday, Michael Ferguson and Seth Anderson of Salt Lake City became the first gay couple in Utah history to get a marriage license. They spoke with Religion Dispatches Saturday morning. RD: You were the first gay couple in Utah to get a marriage license! MF: We are the first gay couple in the state of Deseret to get a marriage license! RD: What are you feeling? MF: I’ve been on cloud nine for twenty hours. I’ve never felt this way before. For…

Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…es. The Church’s top lobbyists reportedly spent 10 days on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City on the immigration issue. Last November, the Church publicly declared its support for a “Utah Compact” designed by Utah business and political leaders identifying five principles to guide immigration debate. The Compact pushed for problem-solving at the federal level, discouraged the use of local law enforcement in profiling alleged “illegal immigrants,” oppo…

Call Centers and… Congregational Email Lists

By Joanna Brooks

…The Salt Lake Tribune describes the way the Romney campaign is putting his Utah supporters to work calling into battleground states. It is, after all, standard operating procedure for political parties to put supporters in non-contested states to work for the larger campaign. But it looks like at least a few of Romney’s Utah supporters are using LDS congregational email lists to drum up donations—despite explicit instructions not to do so from LDS…

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

By Jared Farmer

…nary program certainly no longer encourages Latter-day Saints to gather in Salt Lake City. I could go on. Can’t Broadway afford fact-checkers? Most egregiously, the play mischaracterizes Mormon theology. The elaborate showstopper in Act II, “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream,” shows Elder Price imagining the consequences of being a bad missionary. The problem is that contemporary Mormons don’t believe in hell—at least not the way other Christians understan…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…A man who was shot while watching the premier of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado this July remembers that he was sitting in the fifth row of the theater. When the theater filled with smoke, he remembers thinking, “Wow, they’re really going the extra mile with special effects.” Then there were booms and white flashes and screams. And then he remembers thinking, “Wow, guns shots are so much louder in real life than on film. Human screams,…

‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ Has a ‘Real Religion’ Problem

By Connor Martini

…? But with the launch of the newest franchise, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, religion finally gets top billing. Andy Cohen and Bravo might be ready to get real about religion, but I have doubts about some of the show’s loudest fans. Can we talk about religion on RHOSLC without stumbling into perilous, essentializing traps? Each of the six cast members are introduced in the series’ promotional trailer, a short clip of choral singing played…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the alley,” Emanuel was quoted as saying. “Don’t touch the children of the city of Chicago. Don’t get near them.” Our digital-age attention spans generally being what they are, we can’t expect the Telegraph or NPR, which went more global with its list, to provide the 62 pages of gun-wielding detail offered by the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence. Still, in less than a month since the Aurora shootings, two more killers have become eligible fo…