Mormon Leaders Demonstrate “Continuing Revelation” on LGBT issues Flunking Sainthood Just over three years ago, Mormon leaders touted a controversial LGBT policy as revelation. Now its reversal is also being presented as revelation. April 4, 2019 By Jana Riess — Religion News Service (RNS) — In a stunning reversal, The Church of Jesus Christ of … Continue reading A Hump Day Threefer: Catching Up With Spring, Before It’s Gone
Anybody remember this story? RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOD Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks Feb. 5, 2021 Today, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III signed a memo directing commanding officers and supervisors at all levels to select a date within the next 60 days to conduct a one-day “stand-down” to discuss extremism in … Continue reading You Could See It Coming — CNN: Army ABANDONS anti-extremism effort
From: “Rebecca F Kuang: ‘Who has the right to tell a story? It’s the wrong question to ask’” The Guardian, May 20, 2023 “If I were a debut writer, I wouldn’t have dared to write this book,” Rebecca F Kuang says from her home in Boston. Then again, she wouldn’t have been able to. Her … Continue reading “Is it good?” An Asian-American Writer Stands Up for Imaginative Freedom
Baseball team apologizes to Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence after removing group from event amid conservative opposition The Guardian staff and agencies — 23 May 2023 The Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a well-known San Francisco order of queer and trans “nuns” that has existed since the 1970s, are once … Continue reading Foul Ball — Dodgers drop, then Re-Invite Drag “nuns” to their Pride Night: Two Views
Cue The Byrds: (And the rest of you, open your Bibles to Ecclesiastes 3): To everything, (Turn, turn, turn), There is a season, (Turn, turn, turn), And a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to build up, a time to break downA time to dance, a time to mourn . . . To … Continue reading To The Young Dude In His Dancing Duds – May 16, 2023