Month: June 2014

SoKate Kelly, leader of Ordain Women, has been excommunicated.  If my Facebook newsfeed is any indication, this is a critical turning point in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It apparently represents the stifling of all future dissent, the permanent second-class citizenship of all Mormon women, and very possibly the ... Read more

Asthe Mormon Bloggernacle continues to ponder the fate of Kate Kelly and Ordain Women, I am pleased to report that I am more important than other Mormons commenting this subject.For you see, I am Mormon royalty."What?" I hear you virtually scoff. "Mormon royalty? Just who does this guy think he is?"First of all, it's not ... Read more

Asa follow-up to my non-Catholic post, allow me to share with you a statement made by John Dehlin as posted over at The Millennial Star:

Being active and in full fellowship with the church (i.e., temple recommend holding, attending meetings weekly, paying tithing, holding a calling, etc.) is not likely going to work

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I'ma big fan of Catholicism. I love and respect the Roman Catholic Church immensely, as well as many of its members and former members.  I believe in many of the central, non-distinctive moral teachings within Catholicism (e.g., love, kindness, charity, forgiveness, faith, hope), but I do not believe in papal infallibility, transubstantiation, Catholic apostolic succession, ... Read more

Duringthe 2008 campaign, Barack Obama made it clear that taxing the rich required the rich to pay not just more money than the poor, but to pay at a higher rate, too. When Charlie Gibson, of all people, pointed out that a lower capital gains rate actually brought in more government revenue than a higher ... Read more

"Bergdahlis Obama's Katrina."That was my father's assessment as I discussed this latest Obama debacle with him this morning. He reminded me that even George W. Bush's enemies grudgingly admitted that he was a strong leader until his administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina shattered that image forever. His administration never recovered, and, for all practical ... Read more

That's a harsher title than it ought to be, as I don't hate "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." But the revisionist history going on across the Interwebs as we mark the 30th anniversary of the first sequel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has me completely baffled. It's also directly contrary to my ... Read more

Afriend of mine posted a link to a story about Senator/Loon Ted Cruz winning a GOP presidential straw poll and panicked about what bad tidings this might portend. I might share his trepidation if I thought a GOP straw poll - or indeed, the GOP itself - had any bearing on the future of this ... Read more