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Faith and Religion: Are Mormons Christian?

By Trevor Antley. What with the recent controversy over a certain Texas Evangelical minister accusing a certain high-profile Mormon of being a non-Christian — because Mormonism is, according to this minister, a non-Christian cult — I thought I’d briefly address this criticism that has been repeated ad nauseum for the past two hundred years: are Mormons […]

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BYU’s Gay Mormon Panel a Huge Success, Overflow Crowds Turned Away

By Trevor Antley. On Wednesday night at Brigham Young University, a panel of three self-identified homosexual students and one bisexual student talked openly regarding their struggles with their sexuality and how they have coped with their same-gender attraction along with their Mormon faith. All four students were attending BYU and had committed to living Church […]

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Bishop Kevin Kloosterman, Outspoken Proponent for LGBT Mormons, has been Released from Calling

By Trevor Antley. Bishop Kevin Kloosterman, who served as the ecclesiastical leader of the LDS Church’s Sycamore, Illinois ward, was released from his calling as bishop this week. Kloosterman received attention and mixed reactions from national Mormons last November when, while serving as an LDS bishop, Kloosterman spoke at an LDS-LGBT conference in Salt Lake City […]

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Prominent Florida Pastor Demands Romney Renounce His “Racist Mormon Religion”

By Trevor Antley. Prominent Florida pastor and Rick Santorum supporter Rev. O’Neal Dozier sent a press release today demanding that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney renounce his “racist Mormon religion.” Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called the Mormon or LDS Church. Dozier and other yet-to-be-named black religious […]

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BYU Students Plan Protest after Uproar over Professor’s Remarks

By Trevor Antley. After an uproar this week over allegedly-racist remarks made by popular BYU religion professor Randy Bott, a coalition of BYU students known as the Provo Peace Forum are planning ways to protest. The students are careful to emphasize that they are not protesting Professor Bott or his comments directly, but rather that their […]

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BYU Professor Randy Bott’s Allegedly-Racist Statements; Students Plan Protest

By Trevor Antley. After being quoted in a Washington Post article regarding the LDS Church’s evolving positions on race, popular BYU religion professor and LDS author Randy Bott has been accused of making racist remarks while defending the LDS Church’s historical ban on blacks from the church’s priesthood. On Tuesday the story began to go viral on […]

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New York Times Columnist Mocks Mormon Religion, Little Fallback

By Trevor Antley. Yesterday during the GOP presidential debate, Mitt Romney stated that children in single-parent homes are less likely to be successful in life. Apparently outraged by such a scathing (and statistically-supported) remark, New York Times columnist Charles Blow tweeted the following response: “I’m a single parent and my kids are *amazing*! Stick that in […]

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