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July 31, 2026

While bravely fighting a cold, I joined in an Irish podcast

A new installment of Mormonism with the Murph has gone up online, in a...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

A bit more on attempts to weaponize the atrocity in Colorado Springs

I reported yesterday on the efforts of a small handful of zealous critics...

November 22, 2022

The Colorado Springs Shooter and the Church

First, though, I need to announce three new items that have gone up...

November 21, 2022

The Church, the Senate, and Same-Sex Marriage

As many of you are no doubt aware, about a week ago the...

June 2022

June 03, 2022

“The Queer Philosophies of Men Mingled with Scripture,” and Other Matters

*** Three new articles appeared this afternoon (Utah time) in Interpreter: A...

October 2021

October 16, 2021

Two studies of LDS, LGBTQ Youth, and Suicide

*** There are relatively few genuinely new arguments against the Restoration and...

September 2021

September 08, 2021

Choosing the Kingdom First

*** I return to a subject that I raised in my immediately...

September 08, 2021

“Elder Holland: What They Heard is Not What He Said”

*** You may perhaps be aware of the controversy that has recently...

June 2021

June 15, 2021

“No Comparison Between Latter-day Saint Race and Sex Teachings”

*** I admire what "Hypatia" has to say in this recently published...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

“Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ”

I'll bet that title caught your attention. Well, here's the newly published...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Jeremiah 1:5, Premortal Existence, the Status of the EModE Hypothesis, Latter-day Saints, and Sexuality

An article written by Dana M. Pike has now appeared in Interpreter: A...

September 2020

September 11, 2020

“‘Shut up,’ he explained.”

A short literary passage that seems to me increasingly apropos to our culture...

March 2020

March 07, 2020

Why I object to the word “homophobia” (conclusion)

The term homophobia is modeled upon familar predecessors such as agoraphobia, acrophobia, arachnophobia,...

March 07, 2020

Why I object to the word “homophobia” (introduction)

Responding to one of my recent posts on the general issue of BYU...

March 05, 2020

On a current controversy involving BYU (2)

Continuing from the immediately previous blog entry: 6. The announcement of the...

March 05, 2020

On a current controversy involving BYU (1)

Several have urged me to comment on the Honor Code revisions at Brigham...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

“”Two science societies removed BYU job postings over the school’s Honor Code ban on ‘homosexual behavior'”

If I'm not mistaken, we were repeatedly reassured during the ultimate successful campaign...

October 2019

October 17, 2019

The Church of Jesus Christ and so-called “conversion therapy”

Two or three days ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

September 2019

September 28, 2019

“Gay, transgender youth at ‘significantly higher risk’ of suicide than heterosexual peers”

I just read this summary and commentary: "Gay, transgender youth at 'significantly...

September 27, 2019

The subject that cannot be discussed

Here are some of the publications of the late Dr. Joseph Nicolosi (1947-2017),...

September 26, 2019

Two new temples

The 22 September 2019 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show is now...

September 03, 2019

“Death of the ‘gay gene'” — and of most everything else.

Although most of us who have really thought about this issue concluded long...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

Remember the Alamo!

A few days ago, I posted a blog entry entitled "San Antonio and...

March 22, 2019

San Antonio and the rise of anti-religious tyranny in the United States

“With this decision, the City Council reaffirmed the work our city has done...

March 07, 2019

“‘You Are My People’: Inactive Gay Mormon Shares Powerful Insights After Attending Church for the First Time in Years”

The latest installment of my biweekly "Defending the Faith" column appeared today in...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

Homosexuality, the Latter-day Saints, and Suicide in India

This item from the NCAA, about a major meeting recently held at Brigham...

January 18, 2019

“Karen and Mike Pence’s astonishing moral hypocrisy”

This astounding editorial, by one Clay Cane, appeared on the CNN website on...

January 17, 2019

“Utah researcher: theory of religious influences in Utah LGBT suicides may be overblown”

Suicide furnishes an issue that more than a few critics of the Church...