SL Tribune, Sunday print edition, paid ad on p A13: FFRF (Freedom From Religion Foundation), Ban these books or else repeal HB 374. Citations from bible and Book of Mormon show they match tests for obscenity11mo ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday feature: Under the Banner of Heaven's portrayal of LDS patriarchy on the mark—not just in fundamentalist communities, but ingrained throughout. Women come forward to detail abusive relationships, servants' role.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: LDS church members leaving in droves. Contradictory messaging on equality makes the decision to leave even easier.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday Op-Ed: I simply stepped away from an institution that no longer aligned with me or my values.1yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Pat Bagley: editorial cartoon, likely for the Sunday print edition2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Pat Bagley: editorial cartoon. Matthew 6:21, For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: Recent BYU grad writes essay that would have gotten him expelled—now free to say what he really thinks. Points out that LDS hard and fast doctrines are 100% mutable—can be changed with a single word from the top leader.1yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: I won't tithe until the LDS church opens its books.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Daily Herald/Standard Examiner: former LDS bishop, Clark Crookston (73) pleads guilty on child sex abuse charges. Court hears testimony at sentencing about others being abused and silenced for 60 years.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: James Huntsman to be deposed in his case against the LDS—Judge will decide whether complaint can proceed at next hearing. Huntsman alleges financial misrepresentation—siphoning funds intended for charity to commercial entities, including a fucking mall.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed, Andrew Seidel of FFRF: This money was diverted from charity...every taxpayer in the state and nation paid more in taxes because this company paid none.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: a short response to Wendy Watson Nelson's commencement speech at UVU the LGBTQ+ community knows a thing or two about emotional violence. Her attempt to play victim falls flat.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
via twitter: Racist taunts reportedly part of atmosphere for BYU women's volleyball game vs Duke. So far, press highlighting record setting crowd at Smith Fieldhouse.1yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Do you want to end youth suicides? Begin by stopping all tithe payments to the LDS church.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: frequent contributor continues pointing to mixed messaging—can a true peacemaker advocate for musket fire? Instead of pursuing unity and reconciliation, church leadership continue dragging their feet while complaining about critics.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday Feature: Prodigal Press, a new BYU off-campus newspaper, distributed online and print, attempts an end run around topics deemed off limits/too hot for the Universe. Student journalists hope to avoid school discipline, but the LDS church's tolerance for dissent is low.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: FAIR drops mormon—retcons its acronym. Kwaku and Co.'s T.I.T.S. videos go down the memory hole. We'll be nice this time, pinky promise!3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: a rebuttal to Trib staff columnist reminds everyone that the LDS church has as long history of missteps, including racism. Truth does not need correction, only lies do.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: Recent lesson on The Family: A Proclamation... is intended to re-ignite the culture war against LGBTQ+ persons. Actual effect is likely to create more exmormons.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: Recent UVU grad calls out Utah universities for offering significant credits in a foreign language to returned Latter Day Saint missionaries, while at the same time denying credits to native speakers and international students. Is this a built-in religious bias?3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: frequent contributor makes plea for repudiating racial and LGBTQ+ hatred—including excising canonized scriptural basis for racist attitudes coming directly from god.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Today's accepted beliefs often become tomorrow's rejected nonsense.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Liar, liar! Don't let Oaks get away with his lies—research papers and dissertations on gay aversion therapy were published while he was president of BYU.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: an LDS member calls out church leadership as not being on the same side as Jesus5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: WTF? I cannot fap to this boring highbrow smut!2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Equality Utah (press release via Twitter): Words matter. Reckless rhetoric often precedes acts of violence.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday front page: Tribune's information request reveals former MTC head told BYU police in Dec 2017 that he had confessed to abusing missionaries in the early 1980s, but kept his job.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
LDS Newsroom: Advice from a licensed clinical social worker says to lean on Christian faith to cure depression. Screenshot notes Stinson's professional certification. That seems unethical to me. Does anyone else find it disturbing?1yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Pat Bagley: [news item: Tribune gets approval to become non-profit]4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Nelson's recent speech claiming the Nov 2015 policy of exclusion was based in love is a lie. Stop the gaslighting and give a real apology and move forward with equal treatment for LGBT persons.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: A male authority figure, in the person of Neil Andersen at Gen Conf, ignited a debate about abortion.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Tithing is required for the golden ticket into the temple.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: ...about those warnings on all-things-coffee related.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: a direct rebuttal to Nelson notes the fatalism inherent in mormonism. It doesn't matter if the earth is destroyed—the second coming is due any day now.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: teen idol David Archuleta attempted to pray the gay away, and when that didn't work he questioned his desire to continue living. This is what the cult-mindset does to human beings.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: another pair of letters continue to poke at Nelson's general conference6yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday Feature: behind the scenes details emerge about settlement talks prior to James Huntsman filing a civil suit demanding return of tithing. Surprise! Surprise! The LDS church attempted to ratchet pressure using family as a lever.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: a pair of letters respond to Holland's hateful speech at BYU2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Kelly, Dehlin, and Young excommunicated, but their movements are responsible for changes underway in the LDS church.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: Opportunity knocked after Pride Flags were stolen from her yard in Utah County town—oh, the times are a' changin'3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Oh, what to do with that $100 billion slush fund? Allocate 10% for the homeless?4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: excommunication bingo, You will submit to mah authoritah! Helfer leaves proceedings when told she would have to go without notes on smartphone. Excom proceeds in absentia. Police called on vigil in parking lot.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday Op-ed, Apr 4, 2021: UVU professor, Kelli D. Potter, objects to selecting Wendy Watson Nelson to speak at commencement. UVU President Tuminez shows why Matthew Holland picked her as successor.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Pat Bagley (archive 2014): Do other religions have their very own legislatures?5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: LDS church owns the legislature and attempts to override vote of the people on medical marijuana5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: BYU flip flop was unprofessional, irresponsible, and injurious. The change to the Honor Code seems designed to deceive the NCAA and other member associations.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed, Katherine Langston: a rebuttal to recent article by a FAIR apologist who claims LDS worthiness interviews are just fine. Langston discussed her youth in mormonism in a Project Zion Podcast.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: frequent contributor denounces Brad Wilcox's racist dogma—the same kind he'd endured in Bott's class at BYU—the LDS church needs to issue a formal apology for its racism. Wait, let me get my trusty rock-in-a-hat: don't count on it!2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: This republic was founded on the separation of church and state. [At least, they are supposed to be separate...theoretically.]6yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: Bishop charged with sexual abuse of teenager at girls' camp. James Douglas Robinson, 63, was released from his position of authority after the allegation came forward—he then moved to Idaho.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: undersigned list of UVU faculty object to Wendy Watson Nelson as featured speaker at graduation. *Not even once, people!*3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
as seen on Twitter: Rocky Mountain Power suspends disconnections as part of the COVID-19 emergency4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/Utah
TIL another case of Smith's revelations being altered on the fly. When Gause dropped out of mormonism, his name was likewise blotted out of Section 81 and replaced (via a caret insert) — Frederick G. Williams named instead.1yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, staff op-ed, Robert Gehrke: Flip flop on LGBTQ rules at BYU causes great harm—makes those setting the rules look incompetent and cruel4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: Utah State University students show solidarity with BYU's LGBTQ+ students by lighting Old Main with Pride Colors.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: $100 billion is a number so big that it's hard to put in perspective...100,000 times a million! WWJD with that kind of cash?4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: conference missed the ball by barely mentioning the pressing COVID-19 pandemic. It's socially irresponsible to sit on $100+ billion that could be used to significantly ease suffering. Jesus Christ, it's not only raining it's a hurricane!4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: Helfer's membership *withdrawn.* Stop with the passive verbs already. SHE WAS EXCOMMUNICATED!3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: students rally at LDS Church HQ in SLC to protest flip flop on Honor Code at BYU4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: the article about the LDS church's $8 billion loss in the stock market is not news. Let us know when something big happens.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: BYU seeks man who defaced chalk art across from BYU entrance. Other incidents point to a longstanding discrimination, abuse, and hate for LGBTQ+ persons. Holland's speech only said the quiet part out loud.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Utah Gov Cox has asked for prayers. Here's one.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
via twitter: seeing a report of BYU firing a professor after 25-years. Was Bergin fired for LGBTQ+ advocacy? Little Sisters of the Poor... (Supreme Court, 2020) appears to limit legal recourse.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: BYU won't change discriminatory policies until it's hit in the pocketbook. Other schools should boycott scheduling them in sports. The NCAA should demand an environment of inclusion among its members to participate.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: Matthias Cicotte, Assistant Attorney General for Alaska, is under investigation for his #DezNat tweets. Cicotte, a BYU law grad used the handle @JReubenClark to spread inflammatory, ultra right-wing, misogynist, racist ideas.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed, Sam Young: March this Saturday in support of ending child abuse perpetrated by institutions who claim to serve children. Young's grassroots movement is agitating for the LDS leadership to rethink their process.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
3,300 year old braids preserved via mummification in Egypt. Still not a shred of proof for Smith's claims. BTW, Egyptian artifact exhibit now on tour at Salt Lake's at Rio Tinto museum3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: I'll take Hostile Work Environments for $100, Alex. The answer: In this state, a court commissioner was disciplined in 2022 for using homophobic, transphobic, sexual innuendo, and proselytizing his LDS religion on the job.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Are there other ways to protect the children in the State of Utah? LDS church should begin by staying out of politics.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Apologist's followup article in Public Square Magazine has some theories why LDS sponsored Boy Scout troops had lower reports of sexual abuse. I don't see anywhere on her list that LDS bishops and their lawyers were talking victims out of publicly reporting—We'll handle this internally.11mo ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Pressure to pay tithing is close to extortion—eternal consequences apply for those who do not pony up the cash—consigned to lower ranks in the hereafter4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: About those job postings pulled from a professional societies' job boards—mormons at BYU can cry all they want, but they'd better get used to their discrimination not being tolerated in wider society.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Trunk or Treat sends the wrong messages, especially fear of other outside of the insular, clannish group.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, staff op-ed, Quist: passive voice, mistakes were made is not cutting it—it's time for the LDS church to apologize for its racist past4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: father sees limits for his daughter within the LDS theology and framework—asks Nelson to fix it. A better question is whether children can opt out of this farce.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, April 7: Prof Gabriel blows horn in BYU devotional calling out persistent racist attitudes on campus and within the LDS church as a whole. Gabriel was first Black faculty member to speak in the venue in over a decade.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: RE BYU Honor Code, When I ask fellow students whether LGBTQ+ students should be allowed to get an education, the answer is Yes...just not here.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: an appeal to the brethren to stop worrying so much about trivia, like whether coffee is okay, or not. If they're going to weigh in, then do so on things that matter.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: Will Bagley (1950-2021)—Historian, Editor of journals/book series on western history, Frequent media contributor. His work helped to expose revisionist history attempted by the predominant culture.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Pat Bagley: Conversion therapy is where we go around helping folks who are doing it all wrong.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page, P.F. Stack: LDS church's 2020 Come Follow Me manual states plainly that dark skin was an anti-race-mixing curse. PR spin-machine in overdrive to say, Uh, that's not what we meant.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
It seems like writing one's testimony in the BoM goes back a long time—as found at Univ of Pittsburgh's first edition of the Book of Mormon, And I, A. Wright, Does here by certify that he Believes it not.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Apologist's article in Public Square Magazine attempts to spin Boy Scout abuse among LDS troops as lower than expected. Statistics show reports of abuse are lower. OK, were K&M and LDS leadership discouraging reporting?11mo ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday Op-Ed: The LDS church is wrong to pursue a growth strategy based on being another Christian brand. Trying to fit in, abandons the church's unique appeal—the one-true-church. Further, fair weather members may not be down for the whole program, including the culty bits2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: Church group rescued from slot canyon near Capitol Reef NP. I can imagine the overconfidence, It will be fine. If we get in trouble, we'll call for search and rescue.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, obituary: Carolyn Tanner Irish (1940-2021). converted from mormonism and became fourth female bishop appointed within Episcopal tradition—first to lead in Utah—an advocate for LGBTQ+ equality3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/OpenChristian
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Let the boycotts begin against BYU athletics. It's time for the U of U to get on the right side of history.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: It's time to root out racism. Begin by renaming Brigham Young University.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Sonia Johnson's fight for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s resulted in her excommunication from the LDS church. The playbook used to oust her—sent from the leadership in SLC—remains all too familiar today. Here are a few quotes from her 1981 memoir, From Housewife to Heretic.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Claimed LDS membership in Canada vs. Census Data of those who self-identify as LDS/Mormon (tabulation and graphic adapted from recent article in SL Tribune)1yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: Protests at BYU over flip flop on treatment of LGBTQ persons continues for second day—some students say they're ready to transfer where they'll be safer and treated fairly4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
A mural at the Preston Idaho Post Office celebrates The Battle of Bear River. US Army under Patrick Connor massacred 250+ men, women, and children at an encampment of the Shoshone in January 1863, enabling white-settlement of the Cache Valley2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: pro-LGBTQ+ ally is likely to win praise among liberal mormons for this opinion—LDS church must be fixed. But is the LDS church broken beyond repair? Its claim of having the ultimate authority creates toxic shores to be avoided at all costs.2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: another rebuttal to Senator Mike Lee's pandering to Trump3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: BYU professor preempts lecture on finance to discuss Honor Code changes that allow gay dating. Professor now unavailable for comment—video taken down.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Hey, Christian! About the announcement for a new 28-story commercial glass box...5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: Should churches be given a pass to discriminate against LGBTQ+ persons without consequence? LDS church's in-pocket reps say Yes!3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: Hey, mormon prophet of change, is it time to take another look at coffee?4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Salt Lake City's latest mural promotes a free press, free speech, and libeerty. (via twitter, mural by Pat Bagley)5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/Utah
SL Tribune, op-ed: Pioneer Day is a one-sided celebration of the Mormon invasion of the Great Basin. Here are some steps to begin recognizing past racism that included genocide of Native Americans and be more inclusive of all peoples.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: LDS church should drop discrimination against LGBTQ persons and allow gay marriage—leave it to the mormon god sort it out in the hereafter4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: LDS bishops are unqualified and dangerous. The top LDS leadership are insular and vindictive.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: While the LDS church has now reversed its November 2015 policy of exclusion against LGBT persons/families, it is still anti-humanist. It stands for intolerance and hate.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Salt Lake Tribune, front page: Assault survivors seek safety for missionaries. Two women brought sexual assault in the mission field to light.6yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: Local pastor challenges those in congregations that retain LGBTQ+ prejudice, Are you willing to worship with your feet and walk out?5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday op-ed: Now that conversion therapy is banned, LDS church needs to get out of politics. Next, they should allow people to speak about their sexuality/gender orientation without being shamed, including from over the pulpit.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: coronavirus hits South Salt Lake homeless facility hard. 2 cases jumped to 94—now nearly half have tested positive. Quarantine measures beefed up and tests continue twice a day4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/Utah
SL Tribune: Apostle speaks at BYU about recent incidents of racism/bigotry. Avoids clarifying changes to Honor Code about whether it now allows gay dating. Ballard is a master of Orwell's doublethink and doublespeak!4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: James Huntsman files lawsuit in California asking for return of $5 million in tithing—claims that he was deceived into believing his donations were for charitable purposes. No tithing dollars went into the mall. Yeah right.3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: a pair of letters argue against child abuse/conversion therapy, especially when based on religious belief, not science.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune: Utah Governor Gary Herbert calls legislative session to override vote of people on medical marijuana initiative5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: LDS missionaries attempting to win converts in Russia run up against a hard wall of pragmatism.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Sunday front page: investigative report about how wealthy donors use nonprofits to transfer assets to the Corp of the President and avoid tax obligations.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: It's time for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to take a new look at its dated Word of Wisdom.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: On the eve of the medical marijuana initiative being overridden by the legislature...5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: Dustin Lance Black set to work with Ron Howard/Brian Grazer to produce Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven as a TV series3yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, Public Forum: If the Tribune were to ignore the LDS church and issues relating to mormonism, then it would be a dereliction of its motto, Utah's Independent Voice.5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed, Bernie Sanders: Utah already suffers from the effects of climate change4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/Utah
SL Tribune, op-ed, Kristy Money: Social Distancing in an LDS context. This highly contagious disease doesn't give exemptions—pretending that it does won't help. Stay safe.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: a member gives direction to the first presidency, quorum of twelve to fix their LGBTQ stand5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, front page: LDS First Presidency denies Lavina Fielding Anderson's request for rebaptism. Anderson was excommunicated in Sept 1993 along with others who became known as the September six5yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
Patrick Mason tweeted tepid opposition to BYU-I's decision to drop Medicaid coverage. My translation: Discrimination against LGBT persons is just fine—it's a long held and cherished LDS family value— but discrimination against our barefoot and pregnant mothers goes one step too far.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: Looking back at a personal story of life at BYU during the Prop 8 campaign. Looking at the present where diversity is seen as a lesson for straight people. And looking forward to an apology for LGBTQ persons along with others marginalized by the LDS church.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: Revelation absent in policies that persecute LGBTQ persons.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, op-ed: local politician praises Holland's speech. Thank you, sir! May I have another?2yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
SL Tribune, P.F. Stack: Officially announcing Shanghai Temple may have killed the deal. Nature and intent of religious services could also raise questions within Chinese restrictions. Pay. Lay. Ale.4yr ⋅ 4blockhead ⋅ r/exmormon
