A Look Through Warren Jeff's The fellow who purchased imprisoned, former FLDS leader Warren Jeff’s home opened it up to allow a fw people a look inside. Click here to toggle through photos courtesy of The Salt Lake Tribune. To read the Tribune article, click here.
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An Open Letter to Anyone Who |
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Next year's American Atheists
Convention to be in Salt Lake City
Don’t expect much ado from the Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Theirs is a culture not generally given to public displays. But if you dig protests, fear not. Utah has its share of religious groups that love to carry on. You can see them brandishing signs and shouting slogans outside LDS temple openings, on the sidelines during the Utah Pride Parade (yes, we have one), and outside Mormon Church general conferences in downtown Salt Lake. If they hope to endear themselves to any Mormons who might happen to be reconsidering their faith, we doubt theirs is the best approach. But then, they didn’t ask us.
Atheist organizations aren’t ardent demonstrators, but they are not strangers to needless, fruitless incendiary language. We acknowledge times when incendiary language is needful and fruitful, but slapping people hard across the face as a matter of policy is rarely the best way to win them over. That’s one of the reasons we chose to use humor to take on cults in our book “It’s Not About the Sex” My Ass. But then, the atheist groups didn’t ask us, either.
It is possible to remain true to a cause and mind one’s manners. Hats off to Charles R. Miller, Alabama's regional/state director of American Atheists, who demonstrated as much when he wrote, “I am certain that Salt Lake City will find, like Austin, that atheist convention goers are a friendly bunch of people that share many of the same bedrock American values that many of you hold. We just don't believe in any gods and that is a position that most of us have arrived at after careful consideration of all the facts. I am looking forward to the convention and plan on spending a additional day or two enjoying your city. I hope that you are looking forward to hosting us.”
Bravo.
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As Mormon Church general conference nears, variety of articles appear in the paper
Mormons launch online push to ordain women to the priesthood
Women finally allowed to pray in general conference
“Article on Marriage” by Joseph Smith’s principal Book of Mormon scribe Oliver Cowdery
A brief history of Mormons, booze and the “Word of Wisdom”
Top 13 Mormon cookbooks
How beards on Mormons came to be frowned upon
Effects from change of minimum age for missionaries on college athletics
10 Mormon TV moments
Revisions to Mormon scriptures
Mormon stake president goes on nutty political rant
The Tribune’s favorite Mormon books (Why the heck, we wonder, isn’t our book on the list?)
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