Dave's Mormon Inquiry WeblogCommentary and links to news, events, books, and articles.March 2000: Migrating to Typepad- March 11, 2004 I'm now in the process of moving this site to a new location: Dave's Mormon Inquiry at Typepad. Change is good. With the new platform I will be able to add fun things like comments, nice clean links that light up when you touch them, and other fancy Movable Type features. I will be posting new blog entries at the new site now, but this site will stay up through roughly August 2004. Over time I'll copy my archived posts from this site to the new...http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/10.html#a194 Denominational Views on Gay Marriage- March 10, 2004 Interesting story on Religious views on homosexuality and gay marriage from the Religion News Blog. Here are a few of the denominations listed in the article, along with a sentence from their short summarized statements: Assembly of God: Homosexual orientation is not genetically determined. Ministers and psychologists are successfully treating homosexuality with success. Southern Baptist: Homosexuality is not a valid alternative lifestyle and is a sin, but a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/10.html#a193 Everyone Needs a Guardian Angel Biker- March 9, 2004 Gripping news story about an author who courageously told the story of her childhood kidnapping link from LDS Newsline. But what really touched me was the personal security provided by Bikers Against Child Abuse--no joke, they're for real, and they really do go the extra mile, as noted in the story. Let's hear it for a bunch of tough guys who work at making people feel safer. Here's from their website (love the sound effects): We're part of a National..http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/08.html#a192 LDS Most Likely to Stay Away From Passion- March 5, 2004 That's the headline from a recent Deseret News story. I'm pleased to report they are referring to the movie, leaving first place in the other category to some other, more deserving denomination.http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/04.html#a191 LDS Missionaries Leave Haiti- March 5, 2004 This was reported on the LDS Newsline on February 24. Well no wonder those Haitians are so upset! I wouldn't have thought they were such a sensitive bunch.http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/04.html#a190 Dead Goat is Suing the LDS Church- March 5, 2004 No, it's not what you're thinking. The sons of Levi have not finally offered up an offering unto the Lord in righteousness. Different kind of offering.http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590046462,00.html World Spiraling Down, Lawyers Told- March 5, 2004 That's the title of a Deseret News article reporting Elder Boyd K. Packer's remarks to a bunch of lawyers down at the BYU Law School. I had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't Lawyers Spiraling Down, World Told. Whew, what a relief. He talked about the devil, sin in all its varieties, and read a list of 21 vices Paul said would beset men and women in the last days and noted each with "check" as he read them off. Thus to the 7 Deadly Sins modern...http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/04.html#a188 Mormonism at the U- March 5, 2004 Today's story in the SL Trib editorializes a bit on the failure of Mormon Studies to flourish (or even limp along) at Utah's flagship public university. You would think a bunch of bright professors would be able to figure out how to study something so central to their geographical location without descending into ugly religious strife (which seems to be the straw man they hold up everytime someone suggests they get on the bandwagon).http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/04.html#a187 Thomas Jefferson on Nephites- March 4, 2004 Thomas Jefferson may have been the best educated American of his generation, which informed the quality of his prose and the depth of his observations. Notes on Virginia (1787), his only book, makes clear what a fine observer he really was, guided by his broad education and clear thinking. In Query XI, he provides A description of the Indians. He first notes the Barrows, of which many are to be found all over this country. These were also called...http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/03.html#a186 New Book on the Smoot Hearings- March 3, 2004 Selections in a post at A Soft Answer from a review of Prof. Kathleen Flake's new book The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (UNC Press, 2004). She argues that the whole affair was a chapter in American religious history, and that Reed Smoot was the central figure in a key incident in the growth of religious tolerance in the United States. I don't imagine he felt that way at the time, but it's a nice way to look at...http://radio.weblogs.com/0128987/2004/03/02.html#a185 |