The community here at LJ seems to be pretty dead, but I thought I'd post anyway to let everyone know that my memoir The Accidental Terrorist will be out this fall.

Revised and expanded from my podcast, it tells the story of how I was expelled from Canada for terrorism as a young missionary ( Read more... )

So, for some random reason I was looking for a mormonad image and stumbled upon a new(ish) archive

And I stumbled on this one.


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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/07/15734686-new-website-from-mormon-church-sexuality-is-not-a-choice?lite

Well. There's that.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/13/businessweeks-mormon-caricature-cover-draws-fire/?hpt=hp_t2

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gay-republican-presidential-candidate-fred-karger-gets-rough-205847849.html

Well, mormons' views on gays is part of what made me question the church.. "Wait! I KNOW some gay people, and they're AWESOME! WTF!!!!"

Anyway.. so I guess that's one of my main focuses here..

Apparently a famous mormon blogger came out of the closet, and still swears he's a devout mormon.  While I don't understand the latter part, it makes me SO ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sparker/daughter-inappropriate-outfit-school_b_1539939.htmlRead more... )

http://youtu.be/Ym0jXg-hKCI

My awesome boyfriend sent me this link.

You probably saw recently how the mormons are (still) baptizing holocaust victims, even though they've promised time and time again to stop (What! They just keep showing up in the database!  Mormon officials are NOT responsible for who their members posthumously baptize by proxy!!!)

Anyway, this is awesome ( Read more... )

[Crossposted to my LJ]

It’s been quite a while since I last posted a Playelder story, and the community has been a little slow lately, so I thought I’d continue my Playelder restoration project. (Some background on Playelder may be found here.) In tonight’s episode, Playelder relives his first encounter with…[dramatic organ chord] Satanic music ( Read more... )