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Will Kagan’s Jewishness Win Over Hatch?

By Joanna Brooks

…headed for confirmation. Senate Judiciary Committee member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said yesterday that “unless she stumbles badly,” there “will be 59 Democrats and you can count on at least a few Republicans” voting for her. Might Hatch be one of those Republicans? Senator Hatch is on record declaring: “Anything I can do for the Jewish people, I will do,” “Mormons believe the Jewish people are the chosen people, just like the Old Testament says,” an…

Perry Gives Huntsman Best Week of His Campaign

By Joanna Brooks

…expressing his belief that humans have contributed to global warming. And Utah governor Jon Huntsman joined him, taking a shot at Perry by tweeting: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” Huntsman’s 140-character barb was retweeted almost 4000 times, making it the most retweeted of any tweet by any GOP 2012 candidate. Emboldened, Huntsman (and his Twitter ops) continued on a four-tweet, mega-f…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…r nude art project, Mormon Women Bare. About ten days later, KUTV, a local Utah television station, did a feature on Anderson and her project. A week later, Salon reprinted Anderson’s RD interview [as per an agreement with RD –Eds]—shortly thereafter, the project officially went viral. In some ways the attention isn’t surprising: viewing naked people is one of the primary uses of the internet, and the peculiar twist of LDS women being the subject…

Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…Association, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, Equality Utah, and the Utah Pride Center, called Packer’s claims “factually and scientifically inaccurate statements that put lives in danger.” In response to the petition, Church spokesman Michael Otterson issued the following statement, which I’ll reprint in full: My name is Michael Otterson. I am here representing the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to address the…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…re overruled. LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University campuses in Provo, Utah, Rexburg, Idaho, and Laie, Hawaii have long had dress codes requiring students to dress conservatively, prohibiting shorts, skin-baring cropped tops, and “form-fitting clothing.” The popularity of leggings, jeggings, and skinny jeans (even Mitt Romney has a pair) has produced new attention in LDS communities to how those dress code boundaries are enforced and who bears…

Did Romney Cynically Cite His Mormon Faith for Impeachment Vote as Critics Claim?

By Daniel Schultz

…do.” …Romney’s decisive break with Trump could end up hurting him even in Utah, a red state where the president is uncommonly unpopular. What that means for his reelection prospects, the senator couldn’t say. (He doesn’t have to face voters again until 2024.) But as he thought about it, another hymn came to mind. “Do what is right; let the consequence follow,” he recited. “And I don’t know what all the consequences will be.” Trump and his defende…

Catholic Bishops Want a Place at the Table of Hate

By Kate Childs Graham

…ve targeted Mormon churches and even—in some instances—the entire state of Utah. But the Catholic bishop in Utah wants to remind everyone that the Mormons didn’t do it alone. Bishop John C. Wester, bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, stated: Like our friends in the Mormon faith, the Catholic Church has long championed and promoted the sacredness of traditional marriage and the importance of the family in our society. While acknowledging that…

Film Follows Teen Exiles from Polygamous Sect

By Becky Garrison

…t right for us. It was a struggle and very difficult, especially living in Utah. Leaving one’s religion is much more than not just going to church on Sunday when you have a church such as the LDS faith, which is part of a community and family. Without knowing it, Jenny and I were helping a lot of people who were looking to leave. They would come to us and ask questions and we were able to help them through the process. Jennilyn Merten: When we met…

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…launch earlier this month, has no right to use the word in its name.* The Utah-based church insists it has a claim on the terms “Mormon,” “LDS” and “Latter-day Saint” that supplants anyone else’s right to the terms, but people just keep using them how they want: Warren Jeffs is known as an FLDS leader; people who quit going to church still call themselves Mormon because it’s an accurate cultural descriptor even if it conveys nothing about their r…

Birth of the Bloggernacle

By Krista Kapralos

…t of a joke. “Mormon in Manhattan” Natalie Hill felt a world away from her Utah family. She started her online diary, (NO) Sex in the City, to share a laugh with her sisters and cousins about her dating disasters. “I was totally not into the blogging world,” Hill said. “I could barely read e-mails.” Then, her sister, A Little Sussy, photographer Nicole Gerulat, linked (NO) Sex in the City with her own popular blog. And, faster than many Mormon coe…