One Utah

When I was growing up, a popular theme in church was the fact that we were a ‘peculiar people’, indicating a fulfillment of prophecy. What a lot of Mormons are not aware of is that Gordon B. Hinckley’s life’s work was to change all that. He understood that if the church seemed peculiar, [...]

Re-Posted from July 2006
Asking the opinion of the executive director of Evergreen International if there is scientific basis for homosexuality is akin to asking a chicken farmer for proof eggs are bad for you.The beguiling nature of the entire article is betrayed in the first sentence “the simple ‘born gay’ theory has faded from the [...]

Kevin Owens is, in his own words,
married to my High School sweetheart…member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints….of a gentle disposition and I try to treat others kindly and honestly.

I’m posting his comment below for the benefit of civil discourse (as I am told it is the best way to build [...]

Just when you though children are better off with a Mom and Dad.
Idaho students chant ‘assassinate Obama’ on school bus

Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed "the reddest place in America" by Salon, but that didn’t make it any less shocking when elementary school children started chanting "assassinate Obama" on the school bus.

According to [...]

Colbert actually supports the LDS Church position! (and he really ripped into some gay guy too and he was pretty serious).
He also made Ken’s argument for why 70% of African Americans voted for Prop 8.
I think he’s gonna get in trouble Colbert. Yes I do.

Tuesday November 11, 2008
Proposition 8 Protests - [...]

It would be a good political move too.
The ACLU, along with others, filed a lawsuit in the California Supreme Court that will crush Prop. 8 and once and for all shut down the hateful social engineering that has so embarrassed loving Mormons.  (complaint here)
The press release reminds everyone that California Attorney General Jerry Brown honor [...]

I’m having trouble understanding why this LDS Church-owned newspaper would print this letter (LTE).
Is this guy really a member? And it he saying other members do not support Prop 8? Frank? Help me here.
Support or shut up
I am ashamed of the members of the LDS Church who opposed Proposition 8. [...]

Channel 4 reports that a Nebraska man faces possible excommunication from the LDS Church for supporting same sex marriage.
Let the excommunications begin. Every now and then the church sees fit to make a very public example of a few “dissidents” in order to keep the rest of the flock scared lest the [...]

You can always count on the Deseret News to the print the stupidest letters one can imagine.

Kids need both mom and dad
It is fascinating that in the name of tolerance and love anyone not accepting the homosexual political agenda is hated and smeared. However, that doesn’t change the facts.
Marriage is, at base, a method [...]

Wrapping up my day with a birthday visit with my daughter, I decided to drive up State Street and see how the protest was going. It was amazing. Traffic was barely creeping along. I could only get as far as North Temple and the police directed me to the east. But [...]

by hekebolos
(update w/ video X2) Prop 8: DEVASTATING internal memo from the LDS Church
You can see from my previous diaries that I have been all over the issue of Mormon donations to Prop 8.  But just now, something positively devastating just fell into my lap.  And my source says there’s a lot more where this [...]

h/t Troy Williams
Lets be honest. The LDS church should lose their tax-exempt status by the most conservative reading of the law.
Lets also be clear the preponderance of modern, good Mormons, though silent, are not proud of the LDS church’s intrusion into the lives people, families, and the rights of all Americans.

Ed Firmage has spoken [...]