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Neckties: Vector for infection
# Surprising news: “The Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Lakers used the play the least in the N.B.A. last season. Only 11 percent of their offensive plays originated with the pick-and-roll.”
# Judging from the new legislation in Salt Lake City, we can say Mormon leaders appear to understand the need for give and take.
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Foes Need One Another
# “I often feel like I’m living in my own monkey house.”
# The history of official LDS views on legal protections in housing and employment for LGBT individuals.
# Newsroom on Journalistic Integrity and the Compartmentalization of Ethics
# Ahem. Uh. Yeah. Poor choice of words at the 1:40 mark.
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Change of heart. Sorta. Fox13 Report on Sen. Buttars and his position on gay rights. # Reid restores abstinence-only education funding in his Senate health care bill
# “Tired of sex, I want to get back to history!”
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MormonTimes – Jan Shipps discusses impact of religious research on LDS # Utah #2 Healthiest State in the Nation – Jell-O Not Withstanding
# Meet your new manual: a short history of Gospel Principles.
# Two weeks later, Elizabeth Lambert (aka, pony-tail-yanking-soccer-girl) still trying to make sense of it all
# Free lecture. Jan Shipps. Religious/Mormon Studies. Tonight. Did I mention FREE?
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Salt Lake Main Library, 4th level. 7:00 PM. # One advantage BYU has over Paris is that women can legally wear pants.
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Another is a better economics department. # Hands off the mezuzah.
# From Utah Wingnuts Inc, to the world. Do not be fooled by the church’s support of the SLC ordinance. The gays are still the enemy. (Along with President Obama, of course.) Watch out, they’re trying to gay us up.
# Eris at FMH: Church support for gay-rights ordinance is a sign of hope.
# The Sutherland Institute calls LDS church position parochial, not principle-based.
# New YSA Leaders site: helping the youth of Zion prosper and network.
# Ridiculous. Won’t happen. Journalistic fraud. Wait… wha??
# The World’s Strictest (Mormon) Parent Speaks
# Stay married if you want kids
# Perpetual Education Fund changing lives
# Elder Holland says gay rights ordinance could be a model for the state
# Andrew Sullivan (shock) has some VERY nice things about the Church and its recent endorsement of gay rights ordinance in SLC
# From the Book of Ronan: And yea, the glory of Glenn Beck was like unto the Sun.
# Text of the church statement supporting the SLC ordinance.
# Utah women lag behind in higher education
# News report: The church is prepared to support proposed SLC law providing housing and employment protections for gays.
# Walking to church.
# Hatch empathizes with Muslims in the wake of the Ft. Hood shootings, “We Mormons are used to that. If a Mormon makes a mistake, you can always count on his religion being mentioned…”
# Swine Flu precautions
# For our Missourri readers: Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to speak on Mormon overland diaries in MU lecture tonight
# A non-apoplectic look at the data underlying the recent research on gender differences in happiness.
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“…any way you slice and dice it, there’s not much there there.” # Elder Oaks, Prop 8 backlash, Civil rights, and perceptions of Mormon persecution.
# Andrew Sullivan brainstorms about future gay marriage ads attacking the Catholic Church on child abuse and the Mormon Church on its “long, long history of racism”
# 18 BYU scientists send a “stinging rebuke” to Utah lawmakers over their handling of climate change science
# US Conference of Catholic Bishops endores the House healthcare reform legislation
# Young Latter-day Saint among the Fort Hood victims
# “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
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