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# “In most ways, the accumulated research shows, children of same-sex parents are not markedly different from those of heterosexual parents.”
# Rawr! BYU/NM soccer gets ugly
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BYU wins. Take that. # Mormon-Evangelical dialogue, from Millett to Holland to same-sex marriage.
# Clap my hands, and shout for joy, and climb up on his knee
# “Investigators are assuming that the passenger tried to steady himself while the pilot was putting the Pilatus PC-7 Mk II through its paces by grabbing the eject lever.”
# Utah Supreme Court hears the Warren Jeffs appeal.
# “I am absolutely not a professor of sticking it to the gays.” (note: some edgy language and images)
# One year of Prop 8: A recap
# Rod Dreher’s commentary on Maine: going 0-for-31 ought to tell you something.
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“Honestly, folks, I understand the case for same-sex marriage, though I don’t agree with it, but look, if you’re reduced to having to tell the public that they have no right to be consulted about the radical redefinition of a bedrock social and cultural institution, then you have a big, big problem.” # Rise and Shout
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Forty years ago, 14 black University of Wyoming football players were kicked off the team for wanting to wear black armbands to protest the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy on forbidding African-American priests. # E-publishing and the Mormon market
# It appears that Proposition 1 – same sex marriage ban in Maine — has passed.
# 999 (and 9/10) to go.
# “Within the last twenty years of record-keeping, no other university in the country has eliminated its center of research concerning women.”
# One fold. Many borders.
# The cut-throat world of genealogy
# Useful for eating giant crickets
# “Outmigration and the Mormon Quest for Education” conference at UVU this week
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November 5-6, Library Lecture Hall, Utah Valley University # Melanie at FMH discusses: “Feminist never was happiness.”
# Mormon Times article on feminism: “I’ll grudgingly admit that feminism has been valuable — even necessary. What I don’t understand is why some people seem surprised that it’s not leaving us any happier than we were before.”
# Just another Halloween at BYU Law School… (hat tip: Chris Patton)
# Well-known BYU Law Professor loses fight with Lou Gehrig’s Disease
# Born to run (II)
# Born to run (I)
# George Will on thuggish liberalism and the politics of intimidation. Yes, we have a dog in this fight.
# The Price of Prop 8 — a Heritage Foundation essay.
# Hanging on by a shirtsleeve – Missionary isolation in the New York Times
# Finally, the answer when you just can’t find the right word – and its only $400!
# SSA from a Mormon Perspective — A Review of New LDS Novel
# Your guide to extreme couponing.
# A Stanford conversion story.
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Reprinted at Patheos from the Fall 2009 issue of Dialogue. # All the cool kids are doing it. Come on, I’ll give you your first dose for free.
# Cleanliness is next to godliness…
# “But while Mormons played a huge role in California’s same-sex marriage ban — providing reserves of money and volunteers — they appear to be far less involved [in Maine]…”
# A fantastic discussion of Mormon Racism in Modern American Historiography.
# A blog discussion of how gay-rights marriage advocates are like the Khmer Rouge.
# Mormon Like Me: Black Saints, Bigots, and Beck
# “Best of Mormonism” to be in print!
# Who needs pre-school when you have television?
# Fortune profiles Omniture CEO Josh James and his Utah Valley operation
# What to do with that stack of Baby Einstein DVDs that didn’t make your kiddos any smarter… (hat tip: Sheldon)
# “[Harry Reid's] got a tremendous burden with health care [reform] right now, but despite that, he finds time for home teaching”
# Young LDS Honduran man freed by kidnappers after 44 days (in Spanish)
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Josué David Flores Méndez, a student at the Renascimento Institute of the LDS Church and was preparing to serve an LDS mission. # D-list reality actress in weird one-woman topless protest at LA temple. (warning: risque pictures)
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Keep in mind, this is someone who thinks that “dating” Bret Michaels is a good idea. # Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
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A thoughtful, moving post. “The way forward is not through more demonization and rejection, but through faith, patience and love.” # “Religious liberty and gay marriage: Is Oaks right? Yes and no”
# Ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish
# Mo-Tab. Take note. Srsly.
# Victims of rape, further victimized by insurance companies.
# Free at last (ht: nct)
# Life = Risk
# And she brought forth her firstborn son, and laid him on a lego
# BYU Law studies a whole freaking lot (…but not as much as Villanova).
# “‘That’s right, no one wants a dirty, half-eaten cookie,’ she said. And that, my friends, is how I learned not to have sex.” (warning: some kind of risque content)
# Thomas S. Monson… Slate’s 2009 “most powerful octogenarian in America”
# Hatch Asks Obama to Probe BCS Football Playoff System
# Hitler and the home teaching conundrum
# They call her Heather “heretic” O.
# JSPP photog and historians discuss the picture-taking process
# Supreme Court issues stay barring release of the names of those signing the petition to get Ref. 71 on Washington state’s ballot
# An Atheist take on Mormonads? (Hat Tip: Sheldon)
# Taking a cue on healthcare from the LDS Church
# LSU’s Daily Reveille takes a look at Gary Crowton’s formative Mormon mission
# Adios, land line. Err, well, if you’re willing to have only very short conversations on the home phone, that is.
# Pope reaches out to Anglicans disaffected by the church’s ordination of women priest and gay bishops
# And now, for a special musical number (ht: gst)
# A “crime against nature.”
# New School vs. Old School: The Atheist Rift (Hat Tip: Benji)
# Reno 911 Drag Queen muses on the purpose of life in Mormon.org ad
# And worlds without number have I created…
# Milk is Evil, Three Nephites Say
# The church in India.
# Some great accounts from first time Sunstone participants.
# “I’ve had a tornado rip through my backyard. I’ve lost my home and it’s time to build a new one.”
# “That the author is a practicing Mormon is a fact every reviewer has mentioned, although none knows what to do with it, and certainly none can relate it to the novel.”
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Nor this reviewer either, unfortunately # Kirby: Like it or not, churches must take shots they earn – Salt Lake Tribune
# Evidence, dissonance, and the human mind
# LDS Rep. Jeff Flake goes at it all alone… (for a week on a deserted island in the Pacific)
# Well-behaved women seldom receive prestigious historical awards.
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ht: Randy B. # Are you reading this, Glenn Beck?
# A disturbing account
# What you need to know about Evangelicals.
# Oblermann names Elder Oaks one of the “Worst Persons” in the world
# The case against blogging.
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“The blogpost is biased toward speed, brevity, and cleverness. It thus hands the public square over to bullies, sophists, and clowns.” # I can stop any time I want.
# There is no such thing as a Mormon half
# Chances are, he’ll be the next prophet.
# OC education chair: “Homosexuality is not a civil right.”
# “I don’t want to be mean but I am anyway, and I don’t understand why. Matt doesn’t deserve to be picked on. Nobody does.”
# Checketts kicks Limbaugh to the curb…
# No Sex in the City
# Transcript of Elder Oaks’ “Religious Freedom” speech at BYU-Idaho.
# Best Review of Mormon Book This Year: AMV reviews Elna Baker
# Another response to Elder Holland: “… it once again piqued my curiosity about how non-believers account for the Book of Mormon.”
# Catholic commentary on the controversial StandForMarriageMaine.com ad.
# Is John Connor turning his attention away from Skynet?
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Is The Large Hadron Collider Being Sabotaged from the Future? # One Nation Under God — with a little Cleon Skousen thrown in.
# Video: Oaks expounding upon themes in his speech on Religious Freedom
# “Religious values and political realities are so interlinked in the origin and perpetuation of this nation that we cannot lose the influence of Christianity in the public square without seriously jeopardizing our freedoms”
# Two misionaries injured in Tahiti
# Inaugural Issue of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies
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Journal is affiliated with the Religious Studies Program at Utah State University. # WWJD? File a class action lawsuit, of course…
# “The wobbly religious lives of young people emerging into adulthood”
# Reid tells activists he thought the Church’s participation in Prop 8 “was a waste of church resources and good will”
# “The strangest thing about the lack of gender equity in Church programs is the puzzlement Church leaders express over the loss of activity of women in the 18-30 age group.” (ht: brian d.)
# Gadfly Helen Radkey strikes again…
# Rosalynde in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Are you sure? Certainty and religious faith
# Tender mercies: birthday party edition
# Respected Old Testament Scholar re-examines Biblical translation and says God did not “create” the earth, but “spatially separated” it (HT: BCC)
# Reduce some of the sextuplet fetuses, Mormon couple told, or you’ll lose them all: High risk pregnancies, fertility drugs, and “selective reduction.”
# LDS art in Washington state ad opposing same sex civil union bill (edit: link wasn’t working for some; found another online copy of the ad).
# A cool family friendly job arrangement
# Kid shoulda just stuck with his spork.
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It’s a Fork, It’s a Spoon, It’s a … Weapon? – NYTimes.com # Adaptive Athletes | Outside Online
# Mormons for Equality and Social Justice join in submitting an amicus brief in high profile 8th Amendment case (HT: Sheldon)
# Is someone close to you seeking directions in life?
# A Sunday night fireside … at Sunstone.
# Peers think believing scientists are just a little crazy.
# Rio Olympics a boon for Mormons?
# Why the Polanski case is no big deal in Hollywood.
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