It all started when I read this story from the bizarre-yet-eerily-familiar parallel universe of growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. Then HH had a nostalgic-weird-coincidence moment. Is it something in the air? Or is it “Talk Thursday” that has folks reminiscing about life-altering memories? And about finding your personal history’s place in history? And in images…?
In celebrity narratives, I thought it was a joke or parody when I read that Sarah Palin wrote a memoir called “Going Rogue.” I’m still not entirely sure. Fortunately, there was a bunch of discussion of it that may clear this up: here, here, here, and here. But can Palin’s book compete Elna Baker’s Mormon comedy memoir (which has the Swearing Elders swooning)?
On an unrelated note, Outer Blogness is ringing with follow-up commentary about the SLC anti-discrimination law: Holly Noelle says “Well, Duh” and goes back to debating gay marriage. Daniel Midgely gives us the latest from Australia, and reports on a strange offering sold at Deseret Book called “Encouraging Heterosexuality“. Kerfuffler brings news from Portugal and argues that “it is a grotesque violation of the separation of church and state for the State to prefer the definitions of marriage of some denominations over others. Many religions already accept a definition of marriage that includes gay unions, so all these faiths are being discriminated against by our government’s policy.” And T&S has an interesting discussion about the Mormon leadership supporting a law from which the CoJCoL-dS is, itself, exempt.
The author of that T&S post:
Matt “my sympathies are libertarian” Evans was brave to post on a topic that he obviously knows nothing about (anti-discrimination law). But when it comes to his admission that he spends sacrament meeting pondering gay sex, perhaps discretion truly is the better part of valor.
lol, you can hardly blame him. It’s surely a more interesting topic than whatever was being discussed in Sac. Mtg.
It’s interesting, though, that he claims landlords in SLC have the right to discriminate against unmarried cohabiting couples. Is that true?
Ah, now that I read the debate a little further, it looks like he’s wrong on that one. It’s actually kind of an amusing discussion…
I just hope it doesn’t meet the same fate as Matt’s Marriott Porn post (which disappeared down the ol’ memory hole, as T&S discussions that become too amusing tend to do).
If I thought there was a decent chance of Matt’s post staying up, it might be fun to ask Bill Marriott to take a break from blogging over at his personal blog and weigh in at T&S 😉
E.g., from Bill’s blog:
The Facts About Marriott and California’s Proposition 8 –
http://www.blogs.marriott.com/default.asp?item=2284808
I hear ya. This is the most interesting discussion they’ve had in a while. 😉
Apparently, Sutherland Institute President Paul Mero has announced that hell be delivering a special address tomorrow night: Why I am a Conservative: The Relationship Between Mormonism and Conservative Intellectual Thought.
Hopefully, Paul will expand on this comment that he made last year:
Air kisses back at you, Paul. By the way, your Jeff Reynolds is saying this is now no more than a public policy debate. If thats the tack you intend to take in your special address, I trust youll spend a moment to explain your comment quoted above.
(x-posted from T&S in anticipation of that thread’s imminent removal)
OMG, that thread is too funny!
It looks like they’ve closed it but won’t delete it. 😀
Mormon progress on so many fronts this week!
Of course, BCC quickly responded by producing their own homo-themed closed thread.
Watching how things went down this time around at T&S, and reading that last comment #112 on the BCC thread, the Bloggernacle A-listers have apparently decided to allow their digs to devolve into pro-compassion echo chambers.
Thank goodness for that NothingWavering.org aggregator. My favorite post that’s currently up on the front page over at NW is this one:
Blog: Richman Ramblings
Slogan: It ain’t affiliated with nothing.
Current post begins:
Me again. Just wanted to drop links to three video clips that I uploaded today:
1) Utah Senator Chris Buttars Doesn’t Want The Gays Stuffing It Down His Throat All The Time (his words, at the 1:15 mark)
2) Gayle Ruzicka: Mormon church is wrong to oppose discrimination against LGBT Utahns
3) Sutherland Institute: Mormon support for fair housing and employment = “giving a mouse a cookie”
Dammit, here’s that second link:
2) Gayle Ruzicka: Mormon church is wrong to oppose discrimination against LGBT Utahns