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One would think that Jesus would have let his one true prophet know back when the Internet first appeared that He was going to change the name of His The Church again. But since Jesus didn't let ole Gordo know what He was gonna tell Russ 20 years later, the Strangites and Bickertonites got the domai...

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FFS, we're calling him doctor now?

Another "gift of discernment" epic fail. This time, a 47-year-old squeaky-clean TR-holding uber-TBM Scout leader from my old Plano, Texas 5th Ward. Yes, my former Elders' Quorum President, a man whose home I have been in and who dropped me as a friend when I left the church, presumably be...

I did something similar on my old blog back in 2006:

http://equalitysblog.typepad.com/equality_time/2006/10/the_96_theses_c.html

Here, Eyring also weighed in, noting his father had been born a Mexican citizen.

Interesting. What could have taken Eyring's father down to Mexico, I wonder?

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Mormon gay man Josh Weed's very public heterosexual marriage is coming to an end. Read the very long blog post, in which Josh apologizes profusely for the way his story has been used over the last five years or so to bash Mormon gays who rejected the church's ad...

Nelson pleads with leavers, "please come back.... whatever your problems there is room for you..." I wonder if they are waking up a bit to people becoming disillusioned and leaving. The problems aren't with the folks who left--they're with the church. The church will continue to hemorrhag...

CameronMO wrote:Oaks is next in line when Nelson dies. It makes sense to put him in the First Presidency. Oaks will be the next president of the Church if he outlives Nelson.

If so, why didn't Monson have Nelson in the FP?

Fun activities took a big hit when some so-called prophet (or committee of suckasses surrounding said prophet) made the bureaucratic command decision that every activity had to have a goddamned "priesthood purpose" associated with it.