The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — more commonly known as the Mormon Church — is one of the most rigidly hierarchical institutions in the world. According to Mormon cosmology and belief, ecclesiastical leaders are directly appointed from…[Continue Reading...]
Something we know all too well is that Mormonism and queerness just don’t mix. We’ve talked about “ex-gay” mormons before—who aren’t actually ex-gay at all—as well as Mormons who remain married to their wives, despite openly cruising other dudes. But…[Continue Reading...]
Nationals leader David Littleproud has called for changes to the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement following a spending spree by the US Mormon church in which almost half a billion dollars’ worth of Australian farmland fell into foreign ownership in little…[Continue Reading...]
A Pennsylvania attorney with a registered address in Palmyra has given up his license to practice law as the result of child sexual assault convictions in Virginia and pending child sex charges in Berks County. On July 30, the Pennsylvania…[Continue Reading...]
An Arizona appeals court has resuscitated a high-profile lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling unanimously that the church may have been obligated to report a man to police after he confessed to sexually abusing his…[Continue Reading...]
My family have been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints since 1850, when my great-great-grandfather became our first Mormon convert and made the journey to Utah. Seven generations later, I was born in Colorado. My parents…[Continue Reading...]
How could a young, relatively uneducated farm boy from upstate New York in the late 1820s have written something like The Book of Mormon? Was it inspired by God or is it merely the product of Joseph Smith's vivid imagination…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is among the richest religious institutions in the world The church's net worth is estimated at $236 billion (KSh 30.4 trillion), which includes substantial investments in stocks, real estate, and business…[Continue Reading...]
Josiah Ryan, a gay former Mormon, dresses up as “Gay Jesus” every year at the Utah Pride Festival in Salt Lake City to help attendees reconcile their feelings of being ostracized by their families and religious communities. Ryan recently explained…[Continue Reading...]
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arm misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations by investing it instead of using it for charitable purposes. U.S. District Judge…[Continue Reading...]
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