Many of us have spent the past week remembering and grieving for the victims of the massacre in Orlando. Will this massacre be the one that finally gets sensible gun laws put onto the table in the US? Will it help people (and churches) rethink their anti-gay beliefs and rhetoric?…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
Sunday in Outer Blogness: News is bad news edition!
I was kind of planning to call this one the “no news is good news” edition — since apparently the worst scandal of this week for the CoJCoL-dS was missionaries baptizing kids without their parents’ consent. Then I logged into Facebook one last time before beginning, and saw everyone posting…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Personal Journeys Edition!
This past week there wasn’t really any huge scandal or news item in the Mormosphere, but we had quite a lot of fascinating personal stories, especially regarding faith transitions! (Actually, there was one news item that was also a personal story: another Navajo is suing the CoJCoL-dS for sexual abuse…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Rape culture edition!
I’ll admit it — the first time I heard the term “rape culture,” I rolled my eyes and thought, “that’s not really a thing — after all, we’ve made tremendous strides towards decreasing rape in our society, and nobody’s in favor of rape.” But, as I read more about it,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The best defense edition!
So, the CoJCoL-dS decided to decided to respond to its bad publicity situation by — wait for it! — shooting the messenger! As usual. Because a church that never apologizes because it’s always right can’t possibly need a little help. On the plus side, at least they’re making an attempt…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Non-story edition!
The biggest Mormon headline this past week was the appearance of some companies owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Panama Papers. It was reported on the exmormon subreddit and discussed in a Zelph on the Shelf post that doesn’t appear to exist anymore and…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Another Mother’s Day Edition!
Yes, it’s every Mormon’s favorite holiday again! Time to talk about moms, and how motherhood is every woman’s most important role! In the ongoing discussion about rape policies at BYU, we have a lot of discussion about how the CoJCoL-dS’s chastity/modesty teachings contribute to rape culture (not a new observation,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Trash vs. Treasure edition!
Everybody is talking about two angry outbursts that hit the news the other day! The first was from Tyler Glenn of the Neon Trees. His debut solo single was a passionate reaction to the CoJCoL-dS — which has ultimately rejected him as a gay man. (Here’s a recent Mormon Stories…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Everything’s coming up Jeremy edition!
By now, you’ve probably heard what happened to Jeremy Runnells last week. In a nutshell, he arrived at his disciplinary council with a list of questions and learned that in church court, the defense has no right to cross-examine!! So he presented his court with his letter of resignation from…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Blaming the victim edition!
The CoCJoL-dS has made another splash in the press — this time with the news that when students report having been sexually assaulted, the victims get sent to the honor code office themselves, to see what infractions they were committing themselves to have gotten into this situation!! Wow! This is…