The last time that Mormons were kicked out of the country for community organizing was back in the 1840s.  While historians can probably identify many causes for which Mormons were forced to leave the country, perhaps one of the most notable reasons was because their settlement, Nauvoo, on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi river [...]

If this video doesn’t convince you to stop burning fossil fuels, I don’t know what will.  I found this video from the blog that I have linked to my blog called Watts up With That.  If you are a follower of this blog and you haven’t checked out Watts up With That, then you are [...]

The atheists who had this sign posted in the capitol building in Olympia, Washington next to the nativity display are going to hate hell. The discourse of “Reason” or “Rationality” is also myth and a superstition that is an outgrowth of the Enlightenment.  It is just as easy to indict the cult of reason for [...]

Joe Vogel wrote a recent article in The Huffington Post entitled “A Mormon’s Lament: Church Is On the Wrong Side of History Again With Proposition 8.”  Where Vogel raises several controversial points and forces Mormons to ask some hard questions of themselves, Vogel doesn’t show any evidence of an ability to challenge his own assumptions.  [...]

We will outlive and outsmart the bigots -Dan Savage From my previous post, Wrong Side of History part 3, I mentioned Dan Savage’s appearance on the Colbert Report. Dan Savage said that homosexuals are going to outlive the bigots. I would love to see the demographic research from which this claim is based. I did [...]

  On Tuesday November 11 Dan Savage was on the Colbert Report to defend the gay rights movement‘s protests of Proposition 8. I don’t think this interview was great PR for the gay rights movement. I was surprised that Dan Savage made so many references to his desire to perform sexually perverted acts on boys and young [...]

While theological modification may be acceptable in itself, it would seem that at some point any critical social movement loses its raison d’être when it has either been totally assimilated within the society with which it was originally at odds or it has been removed from that society, either through destruction, or voluntary or forced [...]