Praying for “moisture”
California has been in the grip of a huge drought for quite some time now, and today being the first Sunday of the month, a.k.a. "Fast Sunday," Mormons are being asked to fast and pray that the drought...
View ArticleBYU encourages students to rat each other out for touching themselves down there
The Housing and Student Living Office at Brigham Young University has a new video out and it's a doozy. Narrated by the president of BYU, Kim B. Clark, the video admonishes his students that not...
View ArticleThe Long, Sordid History Of Discrimination Against Christians in America
Many of you of you may have heard that Christians have had their freedom trampled upon - again - because AZ Governor Brewer vetoed a bill that would have legalized the ability to discriminate a...
View ArticleMormons And Marriage Equality: Oh The Irony!
The Mormon Church is holding its annual pow wow in Salt Lake City. The church's leader is exhorting the faithful to remain steadfast in opposition to the evils of "gay marriage"."While many governments...
View ArticleBundyville and the Arizona Strip
I'm completely setting aside the usual points on racism , etc, we have heard from Cliven Bundy and the deplorable bunch of armed idiots who have gathered near him. I'd like to focus more on the context...
View ArticleContemporary Fiction Views: An Inner West voice lauded
From a man who has been dead for hundreds of years, trying to capture whole days or moments that made him feel vibrantly alive, to the man who loses his only daughter to fast-talking,...
View ArticleIndians 101: Mormons and Indians
When Europeans began arriving in the Americas they brought with them the firm belief that all knowledge, including the history of the world, was contained in a special holy book which had been compiled...
View ArticleReligious Freedom is External Only
Today we are all celebrating religious freedom day. Truth be told it is solidly enshrined in the First Amendment and expanded by various Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. It is pretty much enforced...
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Idaho county Republican official warns of 'Islamic infilitration'
A Republican official in Bonneville County, Idaho, sent out a dire warning for fellow Idaho Republicans in a recent newsletter.In the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee newsletter,...
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Mormon Church keeps affiliation with Boy Scouts despite gay leaders
When the Boy Scouts voted to stop discriminating against homosexuals it was a day to rejoice. The vitriol from the right continued and some historically homophobic organizations—religious...
View ArticleThe Deviousness Within The Mormon's Church's Recent Policy Change
Last week, the Mormon church announced a change in policy with regard to children being raised by same-sex couples. The basic policy itself sounds anodyne — children of same-sex couples have to wait...
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Indians 201: Utah's Black Hawk War
During 1865 to 1867, American and Mormon settlers in Utah were engaged in a war with a small group of Ute, Paiute, and Navajo warriors under the leadership of Ute chief Black Hawk. As a result of the...
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How Americans feel about religious groups
I admit times have changed in the past year since this study was conducted but I think it gives some keen insights into how the average American thinks of other religious groups.Individuals were asked...
View ArticleUnrest in Salt Lake City after teenager shot by police for wielding a stick
Salt Lake City police say that a 17-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot by two officers February 28 because he was wielding a metal stick. The police initially stated that the youth...
View ArticleTim Kaine the Jesuit, Tim Kaine the Mormon
Two observations regarding Tim Kaine’s electoral appeal.First, the Jesuit-educated Tim Kaine is exactly the kind of politician that Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, likes to promote. And the match goes...
View ArticleHillary Clinton op ed in Deseret News
which has invited each of the Presidential candidates to contribute a piece.For those who didn’t know, besides being the major paper in Utah, Deseret News is own by the LDS Church.This one is titled...
View ArticleHillary Writes OpEd In Main Utah Newspaper... UTAH IS IN PLAY SEÑORES!!!
Hillary Clinton wrote an OpEd today in the Deseret News, reading the tealeaves how mormons dislike Trump as seen in this quote from NYT article“The issue of religious liberty is an important one in the...
View ArticleHillary makes her case to Utah Mormons in newspaper op-ed
Hillary Clinton is courting voters in Utah, of all places. Though the state's gone red in every presidential election since 1964, Donald Trump's Muslim ban has proven absolutely toxic to the state's...
View ArticleElection: Trump discerns decisive problems
www.politico.com/…'Trump is underperforming so comprehensively...it would take video evidence of a smiling Hillary drowning a litter of puppies while terrorists surrounded her with chants of ‘Death to...
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Could UT Become a Swing State? WaPo, Deseret News, and Hillary's Op-Ed Mormon...
I know. I know, squared. But things are rapidly changing re. where Hillary is going for her swing states and swing voters. She’s penned an Op-Ed for the Mormon-owned Deseret News.And they published it:...
View ArticleRomney Remarks Bash Trump in Signs for LDS Community
Who better to convince Mormons that Trump is dangerous to the LDS community than Mitt Romney, the most successful Mormon politician ever. The first signs quoting Romney’s attacks on Trump went up in...
View ArticleClinton goes in on Utah with a new video ad
titled We are Mormons For HillaryxYouTube VideoNote carefully the source of the words heard and seen. The particular passage, especially with its mentions of religious liberty and its mention of...
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The Salt Lake Tribune Endorses Hillary Clinton. Cites Her Devotion to Less...
The Salt Lake Tribune endorses Hillary. Their endorsement appears as a large banner headline at the top of their front page.There is also a negative reference to Trump’s locker-room talk excuse right...
View ArticleMormons and Trump - How they might cost him states
So, I’ve been very interested on the impact Evan McMullin might have on this election. We know from a lot of reports that Mormons do NOT like Donald Trump. We are seeing this affect greatly in Utah...
View ArticleKaine writes about missionary service for Deseret News
I have felt all along that Kaine had the capability of real outreach to Mormon voters because of his own missionary service in Honduras. Remember that most Mormon men do missionary service, quite...
View ArticleOMG! Trump's Evil Minions Are Now Attacking Mormons in Utah! When Will the...
You can read all about it on the conservative blog site Red State:DISGUSTING: White Nationalist Launches Robocall in Utah Attacking McMullin. But why stop there? Now a Trump supporter is publicly...
View ArticleIf Utah’s Evan McMullin is gay, Is Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio guilty of...
To file in your dirty tricks department, Salon broke a story this afternoon: “Robocall from white nationalist says anti-Trump candidate Evan McMullen is gay, “has two mommies”A Donald Trump supporter...
View ArticleTrump's Biggest Fear: Mormons
Donald Trump has NOT been elected President of the United States. The Electoral College will vote in December and if Trump gets 270 votes he will become president. Trump currently has 290 likely...
View ArticleTrue liberty extends to all
Utah civil rights attorney Samuel Wolf has responded to a SCOTUS brief filed in the case of Grimm v Gloucester County School District by the Mormon church with an op-ed in the Salt Lake City Tribune....
View Article#DownWithTyranny Features Dr Kathie For Congress!
UT CD03 drkathieforcongress.com Special Election 11/7/17 #LastChanceToFlipOneBlueOn Tuesday, July 18, 2017, Down With Tyranny profiled me after having asked me to write about the debt-ridden...
View ArticleJeff and the White Horse
Jeff Flake has decided to stand for principle, even though it means giving up his U.S. Senate seat.Some LDS people believe in the White Horse Prophecy, a prediction that the Mormon Church will save the...
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Top Comments - Power over God
I have been thinking about Jon Krakauer’s book, Under the Banner of Heaven, as it relates to present day politics. I wrote about it once before, back in 2014. In Krakauer’s terrifying book, the ‘god’...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, June 2018
Huck Finn of the Thames: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman"Alexander knew what he must do. Very bravely he went to the authorities and told them about his family and the pagans they were sheltering,...
View ArticleMormons say Utah marijuana ballot initiative violates their religious freedom...
Most thinking individuals likely consider that being forced to comply with or abide by a religious group’s dictates is a violation of their constitutionally protected religious freedom. Unfortunately...
View ArticlePicks of the Week: Our last collection from the DK Community for 2018—and...
It’s the final installment of this series for 2018, dearest Community! Thanks so much for making my first year at Daily Kos such a joy. I absolutely LOVED reading your answers to last week’s query...
View ArticleTrump Endorses Public School Bible Literacy Classes
(Per Politico article) Evangelicals have been lobbying Trump to add Bible literacy classes to public school curriculums. I think that would open a can of worms-to put it mildly. What about the Koran?...
View ArticleIndians 201: Mormons and Indians
When the European explorers, soldiers, missionaries, and colonists arrived in the Americas, they viewed the world through the lens of Christianity. Encountering peoples who were not mentioned in the...
View ArticleRegenerative Culture: Ready to Invest to Cut Your Household's Carbon...
I was driving around shopping a couple weeks ago (OK, driving a single car, but I did arrange my errands so that I minimized mileage), and listening to NPR’s Here & Now. They interviewed Dr. Vijay...
View ArticleFirst CT. Now the Mormons.
While we speak to all of our fellow citizens and elected officials, we call specifically upon our co-religionistsSenators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Tom Udall...
View ArticleIs Arizona Ready to Turn Blue? The Numbers Look Promising
Last year, the state of Virginia culminated its transformation from one of the most Republican states to electing a Democratic controlled legislature for the first time in a generation.What will be the...
View Article'If we die, we die for Christ': Florida megachurch pastor encourages folks to...
As nations around the world buckle down amid coronavirus outbreaks, approaches to isolation and social distancing are inconsistent, at best, in the United States. While some cities and states are...
View ArticleMormon church leaders remind members they are 'not immune' and ask them to...
As the novel coronavirus continues to hit the nation, states are still operating with varying guidelines and intensities. Without a consistent federal response to this ongoing public health crisis,...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest December 21, 2021
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni editors...
View ArticleThis is how you talk to racism - Staley, SC cancel BYU games
ESPN has an announcement that the South Carolina women's basketball team has cancelled this year's home and home series due to the treatment of the Duke University women's volleyball team. Dawn Staley...
View ArticleMaybe I'm not cut out to be a god
NB: Be prepared to wade through a fair bit of Mormon stuff; hopefully this will be worth your time. At the very least, you might end up with some questions to ask of any missionaries who might cross...
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This Week In The War On Women: 2/4/2023 Edition
This Week In The War On Women: 2/4/2023 Remember MMIWDk images library Chrysalis Uploaded by: xaxnar(In some positive news):"Monarch butterflies wintering in California...
View ArticleIndians 201: Shoshone Indians and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth century
In 1830, a new religion was born in the United States with the publication of The Book of Mormon. The new religion, founded by Joseph Smith, is unusual among non-Indian religions in that it...
View ArticleAZ Supreme Court enables sex abuse in the Mormon Church
Arizonan Paul Adams started sexually abusing his older daughter in the early 2010s. The abuse lasted for seven years. Later he started assaulting his other two children. We know he did because he...
View ArticlePornhub blocks Utahns from all sites after ill-advised law. That's probably...
Unfortunately for Beehive State libertines, engaging in one of the state’s favorite pastimes just got appreciably more difficult. Thanks to a new Utah law requiring adult sites to verify the age of...
View ArticleIndians 201: Hopi Indians and Mormon missionaries
For thousands of years the Hopi Indians have lived in permanent farming villages in what is now northern Arizona.
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