Tag Archives: Mormons

As I noted several posts down, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, is scheduled to share the stage with Bryan Fischer at the FRC’s Values Voter Summit in two weeks. People for the American Way have asked Romney and the other GOP presidential candidates to denounce Fischer before they appear at the conference. This clip may speed a response from Romney, at …

JMG reader Victor tips us to this Mormon-mocking website, which will baptize anybody whose name you submit. And send you a certificate too. Proxy baptism, also called vicarious baptism, or baptism for the dead, is the practice of baptizing a person, acting as another person’s proxy, on behalf of another. Got that? We baptize Joe from accounting, who’s acting as …

So now he’s an ex-Mormon.

“My father does not know that I’m gay. I haven’t actually told him yet. I guess he knows NOW.”

The Book Of Mormon is in previews has opened and reviews are coming in. Andrew Sullivan: This is an almost classically traditional musical score, each song unique, but united and woven together in show-stopping finales. Their blend is of subversive material filtered through tradition and sincerity. There is no cynicism here. Yes there is General Butt-Fucking Naked. There is an …

Using language that echoes words found in Mormon documents, Utah state Rep. LaVar Christensen has filed two bills may exclude gay families from all publicly funded programs and laws. Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Draper, filed a bill Wednesday, HB270, that would reiterate the state’s policy that marriage is between a man and a woman and require that publicly funded programs, laws …

Ho hum, another coalition of religious leaders have banded together to announce that dirty queers are not about to soil holy matrimony. Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have come together to express their commitment toward the protection of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In an open letter released …

Much noise is being made about the Mormon Church’s so-called softer position on homosexuality. HRC’s Fred Sainz went on MSNBC to talk about it, but Pride In Utah, who has read the new Mormon Handbook, says don’t believe the hype.

Clip description via YouTube vlogger Dave Evans: National gay rights activists on Tuesday delivered a petition letter carrying 150,000 signatures to the Mormon church following an address given by President Boyd K. Packer, a Church Apostle. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay civil rights organization, collected the signatures after an e-mail alert to members and supporters 20 percent …

Thousands of protesters gathered in Salt Lake City’s Temple Square last night to denounce remarks by LDS Apostle Boyd Packer, who called gay people “impure and unnatural.” Packer’s speech, delivered during the LDS Church’s 180th Semiannual General Conference, hit a nerve, protesters say, because it came after a string of gay teen suicides in the national news. Boys as young …

“Words have consequences, particularly when they come from a faith leader. This is exactly the kind of statement that can lead some kids to bully and others to commit suicide. When a faith leader tells gay people that they are a mistake because God would never have made them that way and they don’t deserve love, it sends a very …

So much for that LDS make-over. Same-sex attraction can be overcome and any type of union other than marriage between a man and a woman is morally wrong, an LDS apostle told millions of Mormons on Sunday. “There are those today who not only tolerate but advocate voting to change laws that would legalize immorality, as if a vote would …

The Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign today launched NOM Exposed, a site devoted to unmasking the players, major backers, and strategies of the National Organization for Marriage. Via press release: As the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM, embarks on a fall election campaign to defeat candidates who support full marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign, in collaboration …

OK, not the “anti-Christ” per se, but definitely working for the Dark Lord. Writing for the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow, Russell Moore says that America’s acceptance of Glenn Beck is emblematic of the nation’s embrace of Satan. Or something. A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical …

A man who was performing ritual proxy baptisms of the dead for the Mormon Church is now suing the LDS for repetitive motion injuries. Apparently you need a living human stand-in when Magic Underpantsing a dead person against the wishes of their descendants. The civil suit filed Wednesday in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court claims Daniel Dastrup suffered severe …