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What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e director of the Sutherland Institute, did this month in an op-ed for the Salt Lake Tribune. It is time for those of us who cherish religious freedom to stop, yes stop, opposing gender equality… This is no trade-off, no compromise nor quid pro quo. Neither is it unilateral surrender. It is neutrality and it is wisdom. Mero may not be a household name like Pat Robertson or Tony Perkins, but he has spent the past 30 years filling his resume with de…

Mormon ‘Humorist’ Robert Kirby Is Butt of His Own Dirty Joke

By Holly Welker

…how he wants to treat her. This isn’t a hypothetical: it happened between Salt Lake Tribune humorist Robert Kirby and Mormon blogger C. Jane Kendrick (aka Courtney Clark Kendrick) at the Sunstone Symposium in July. In response to Kirby’s column this week criticizing McKenna Denson, who is suing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over its role in an alleged attempted rape by a high-ranking church official, Kendrick posted on Facebook…

Historic Prayer by Woman at LDS General Conference Signals Growing Concern with Gender Equality

By Joanna Brooks

…rmon women’s ordination, who convened a Saturday evening public meeting in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah featuring presentations on the role of women in the ministry of Jesus Christ and the early Christian Church as well as Joseph Smith’s own views of women as priesthood holders. Even as various fixes to the administrative program of the Church are rolled out, need for serious theological discussion of gender issues continues. At the LD…

Romney Lets his Inner Mormon Out Just in Time for Tampa

By Joanna Brooks

…n to the few people of color in attendance. [UPDATE: Tuesday morning, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that Love will speak at the Convention.] Whatever Mormon Republican is tapped to give the prayer (Bay Buchanan? Jason Chaffetz?)—[ADDITIONAL UPDATE: As of mid-morning Tuesday, sources are saying that Ken Hutchins, a lifelong friend of Mitt Romney who served with Romney in Boston-area LDS Church leadership positions, will deliver a prayer at the…

Ex-Mormons Shouldn’t Proselytize Mormons… Really?

By Holly Welker

…alian TV. Armed with a copy of The Origin of Species, Safran flies to Salt Lake City to promote atheism. I love when Safran offers one woman “a reading from 1980s concept band XTC,” quoting the lyrics to “Dear God,” just as I shake my head when an old man attempts to silence Safran by announcing that he’s “a bishop in the LDS church,” as if that’s an obvious reason why no one should attempt to share their beliefs with him, or when another simply s…

NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out

By Peter Montgomery

…e us to new things, religious and cultural. In Utah, we visited the Mormon Salt Lake Temple. In Atlanta, the house of Martin Luther King Jr. That early exposure to otherness made me the guy who accepts everyone unconditionally. Of course it didn’t take long for religious right leaders to bring a different Christian persepctive to the conversation. Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber tweeted that it was “sad” that Collins was being treated as heroic for…

Traditional Mormon Sexual Purity Lesson Contributed to Captivity, Elizabeth Smart Tells University Audience

By Joanna Brooks

…d: why didn’t Elizabeth Smart run? There she was, wandering downtown Salt Lake City, right in our midst, the veiled captive of a madman. But we also recognized something in that paralysis, that deadly quiet. We recognized something of ourselves. Now, Elizabeth Smart, continuing her elegant and courageous adult self-realization, tells an audience at a Johns Hopkins University event on human trafficking that a very traditional Mormon culture object…

Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…Bible Church (outside of Washington DC). I became practically a regular at Salt Lake City’s Temple Square and dabbled in every pesky little denomination and congregation and prophecy conference I could find. But I was no good at exposé. The more I saw to expose, the more of the other I could appreciate and make my own. While Sharlet and Goodstein saw a theocratic beast in their midst, I found only crippling ambivalence. In the end, I didn’t write…

Did Mormon Morality Teachings Really Make it Harder for Elizabeth Smart to Run?

By Joanna Brooks

…on homes, on Sundays, and in Mormon-saturated cultural contexts. Even Salt Lake City middle schools like the one Elizabeth Smart attended. Mind you, such lessons are nowhere in the official sex education curriculum of the state of Utah. Nor are they to be found in the current handbooks or youth instructional manuals of the LDS Church. The most current LDS youth manuals (released in January 2013) reflect a steady effort on the part of LDS Church l…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

In July of 2013, Salt Lake City photographer Katrina Barker Anderson launched Mormon Women Bare, a website featuring nude portraits of Mormon women. Anderson, who has a degree in broadcast journalism from Brigham Young University, spoke to me recently about the project. HW: What sort of attitudes about nudity did you grow up with? KBA: My mother is a painter; my father is a physician. So even as I grew up Mormon in small-town Ohio, I came from…