An episode of “Big Love,� the HBO series about a polygamous Mormon family has courted controversy with the Mormon church....

I'm supposed to be working on a presentation for Liberation Theology class tomorrow, but before I get to it I need to let out a few thoughts about Monday's LDS Newsroom commentary.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *"Internet references to Big Love indicate that more and more Mormon them...

During the oral argument before the California Supreme Court, on the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8 , there was one brief shining moment of agreement. Justice Ming Chin asked whether it might not be best if the state got out of the marriage business entirely and just issued civil union permits—...

Today is: Gay Utah finds a new prom queen, Non-Gay Utah hates freedom, Sahara continues to hemorrhage money, Twilight newz!!, and frigging Octomom. The Sundance Film Festival has a new director. John Cooper, a 20-year veteran of the festival who worked in programming, has been moved up to the top sp...

Our favorite queer-vague show, HBO's Big Love is under attack by the Church of Latter Day Saints after word got around that next week's episode will feature a scene simulating a sealing ceremony within a Mormon temple. The show, created by gay couple Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, follow...

We made a family trip to the Downtown SLC library today. As we were checking out, I saw the following on a bookmark-type flyer thingy. I thought I should pass it on to the FMH community for anybody in town, temporarily or residentially, who wants to go. Mormon Women: Portraits and Conversations Marc...

The United States Marines, the Mormon Church, and the Korean Department of Tourism are all paying Australian-based uSocial to game Digg.com for them, according to a blog post at the Los Angeles Times. We covered uSocial last month, a company that charges about $200 to promote up stories on Digg.com,...

With all the bad new lately for my alma mater Yeshiva University, it was nice to see the positive news that the school is ranked by US News the 9th most popular in the nation, ahead of (other) highly esteemed institutions like Brown and Columbia. The bigger story in this list is that the Mormon scho...

as an antidote to all this budding spring optimism, I continue my list: *iTunes *folding laundry *Bella in Twilight (Edward is too boring to hate) *man hair in the sink *man hair on my chin *food *Thomas Hardy *hard chairs *global recession *driving *medical insurance being tied to employment (becau...

I have a brother in the Army who has been to Afghanistan and Iraq three times now. In so many ways he is a deeply good man, but I get uncomfortable when he starts talking about the Iraqi/Afghan people. I’m sure he tones down what he says a great deal in my presence, and yet it is still so hars...