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Mormon “Martin Luther” Causes Stir by Uploading LDS Church Handbook of Instructions to Internet

By Joanna Brooks

…und changes to the section of the Handbook dealing with homosexuality. One Utah television station even ran a nightly news segment suggesting a link between the changes, Proposition 8, and the protests following Elder Boyd K. Packer’s controversial conference talk on homosexuality. Yesterday, the Church newsroom went on the defensive with a blog post decrying the poor journalism of the local television news crew (shocking), especially its narrativ…

LDS Church Disavows “Mormon”-ism

By Holly Welker

…to refer to the church headquartered at 50 North Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, what’s approved for subsequent references? The abbreviation LDS is out, so “LDS church” is now verboten. Instead, “‘The Church’ or the ‘Church of Jesus Christ’ are encouraged. The ‘restored Church of Jesus Christ’ is also accurate and encouraged.” Mormon, however, is “a nickname… not an authorized title” and is unacceptable for anything but proper names, like the Book…

Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?

By Joanna Brooks

…buzz continues to build about the nascent presidential campaign of former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. Of course, I’ve been saying it for months here at RD: Romney is what many Mormons call a TBM—or “true-believing Mormon”—an orthodox believer and devout practitioner of the faith. Huntsman? Well, he’s something else—an other-than-orthodox Mormon of a variety that contemporary Mormonism may not yet have the vocabulary to describe. Early Thursd…

The Other Mormon Candidate

By Anthea Butler

…in Wyoming, where Mormons trekked through on the way to what would become Utah. Henrichsen’s run also highlights an aspect of Mormon culture: in his words “Mormon culture is focused on professions, where success is viewed as a good by the community.” Perhaps articulating what Mitt Romney doesn’t know how to say well, Henrichsen’s good cheer and industrious politicking will pay off. It is certainly that spirit that keeps him logging many miles on…

Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

…rted as an ethnicity, with human interest stories highlighting how and why Utah Mormons might make good foot soldiers in western swing states, and nothing-new polls gauging consistent levels of voter antipathy towards Mormon candidates (with zero analysis). I’m waiting for the story that transcends the flat ethnicity paradigm and gets the deeper and more persistent question of religion and moral bearings: How does the most religiously devout candi…

“Joseph Smith Himself Viewed Women as Priesthood Holders”

By Joanna Brooks

…ement? On Saturday, April 6, at 6 p.m. , we will meet at the University of Utah Student Union building, during the priesthood session of the LDS Church’s worldwide General Conference—a session which we are not permitted to attend. We will meet each up, introduce ourselves and the movement, offer women’s ordination 101 on the history of women’s ordination in the LDS Church, and hold breakout sessions to get individual thoughts on ordination and how…

Seen Andrew Sullivan’s Expose-Style Footage of the LDS Temple? Now Read This.

By Joanna Brooks

…. When a former LDS Church leader named Reed Smoot was elected to serve as Utah Senator in 1903, ministerial associations across the country petitioned Congress that he was unfit to serve due in part to Smoot’s own participation in temple rituals, including this oath and a promise to dedicate himself and his resources to the LDS Church. Just as did Smoot critics in 1903, during a period of high anti-Mormon suspicion in the US, the creator and the…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…lity in places where they are numerous enough to be able to leverage their numbers effectively and to experience themselves as total social community. Where they are so few as to make political mobilization ineffective or even costly to their relationship with their host community, they have not. Mother Jones’s Stephanie Mencimer suggested that fear of harming Mitt Romney’s run for the presidency kept the Church on the sidelines in 2012 marriage…

Romney Lets his Inner Mormon Out Just in Time for Tampa

By Joanna Brooks

…. Insider speculation quickly ran to Mia Love, a Mormon.org campaign star, Utah suburban mayor, Haitian-American Republican, and upstart congressional candidate. Who better than Love, a black Republican Mormon woman, to push the reset button on all those preconceptions about Mormons and Republicans? But sources close to Love confirm that she will not be praying at the event, though her campaign is still angling to get her a spot on the program. Sh…

Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

…and most of the Republican establishment (with some notable exceptions in Utah and a few other places), evangelical leaders have made their stand on the Trump tapes: sure, the comments were “inappropriate,” but they don’t rank high on the “hierarchy of concerns” of evangelicals. And anyway, that was 11 years ago, when he wasn’t a Christian and was a young man of 59, and now that he’s a baby Christian and fully matured at 70, obviously he’s a bett…