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Not LDS Dad shares thoughts on FHE
Not long after my wife and I moved to Utah about 12 years ago, I used to wonder how people felt about their church urging them to set aside a certain time to bond as a family. I'm talking about the LDS Church's family home evening. Back then I would imagine that I'd probably resent it. It...
Vancouver Sun: Residents can get rare glimpse of Mormon inner sanctum
MR says: A pretty decent overview of latter-day saint temples. In the month of April, Metro Vancouverites will be offered the highly unusual opportunity to experience the inside of a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon ). By early May, the large new Langley temple will be...
Washington Post addresses new documentary '8: The Mormon Proposition'
MR says: Seems that most reviews have not been positive of the actual film itself, but the inflammatory content keeps it afloat. It takes a certain amount of nerve for a former Mormon to make a film that takes on the Mormon Church for alleged political meddling in one of the biggest gay-rights battles in...
Anti-LDS behavior addressed at San Diego State
The debate over what constitutes religious prejudice at BYU road games kept itself alive this week when athletic officials at New Mexico tried to preempt anti-religious chants or mock dress-up from fans Wednesday night at The Pit, where they put out the word before tipoff for students to keep it...
From the creators of South Park...a Mormon musical
MR says: Ugh. Here we go... A musical based on Mormonism by the creators of Comedy Central's animated series South Park is set to open Off-Broadway during the 2010-2011 season. 'Mormon Musical' will be a satirical play created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone based on the loves and lives of members of the...
Residents surprised by Church decision to lower Phoenix temple height
MR says: Wonder if the opponents of this temple won't be calmed until the temple is actually built. Critics of a proposed Phoenix temple said Wednesday they are surprised the Mormon Church withdrew its plans to exceed residential zoning heights but it's just one piece of their concerns, which they have...
Oakland newspapers standing up for local LDS man dealing with fallout over Prop 8 support
MR says: This is encouraging to read. Finally, someone is standing up to the mayor and city council of Oakland, Calif., for reconsidering the appointment of an LDS member of the board of directors of the city's Paramount Theater because he contributed a large sum of money to the Proposition 8 campaign....
Mormon Church will lower height of Phoenix temple
MR says: This decision follows neighborhood opposition to the proposed height of the temple. It will be interesting to see how exactly the Church is changing the building plans and what the neighborhood reaction to this announcement is. The height of the proposed Mormon temple in Phoenix will not exceed...
Sundance Prop 8 movie doesn't draw expected protesters
Despite rumored anti-gay protests, a Sundance Film Festival documentary about the Mormon church's role in a 2008 California political battle over gay marriage played to a friendly audience on Sunday in Park City. Only about two dozen gay marriage activists chanted — "Separate, church from 8"...
Correction on "plausible deniability" claims made against the Church in Prop 8 trial
MR says: Always important to check the facts. It was widely reported yesterday that an LDS document used the words "plausible deniability" (to describe the approach to the Prop 8 campaign) when in fact they were just the words used by a non-LDS witness. There is some confusion in the post I linked to about...
LDS man loses board seat due to Prop 8 donation
A $26,000 contribution to the initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California appears to have cost a 96-year-old former Mormon temple president his seat on the board that oversees Oakland's historic Paramount Theatre. Amid rising criticism from the gay community, Mayor Ron Dellums said...
Newsweek: Religious groups unite to help Haiti
MR says: Love this. Religious communities across America are following an established, if grim, script, organizing support for the latest disaster, the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti. ...But if disaster can bring out the worst in human nature, it can also bring out the best, as when humanitarians find...
LDS officials meet with Phoenix Temple opponents
MR says: The latest on the Phoenix Temple conflict - hopefully Church officials sitting down with the opponents will resolve the remaining issues. Opponents of a proposed Mormon temple in north Phoenix and church officials emerged optimistic after they met this week, though nothing concrete came out of it....
Oxford Press finds success with Mormon themed books
Bouncing around on the trend-tossed seas of 21st-century book publishing, Mormon scholarship seems to have docked at the granddaddy of all prestigious presses: Oxford University. By all accounts, the unlikely partnership between the oldest university in the English-speaking world and an upstart...
Prop 8 film focusing on LDS is a sellout at Sundance
MR says: Will be interesting to see just how much attention this movie gets outside of Utah - and how much of the press is even-handed as (my opinion) it appears the film is most definitely not. A Utah State University graduate’s controversial film on the LDS Church and gay marriage has sold out five...
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