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The Mormon Dilemma: What About Mormon Latinos?

Catholic Conundrum: What's an Anti-Abortion, Pro-Immigrant Voter to Do?

First Edition Book of Mormon Stolen From Mesa Store Recovered in Washington D.C.; Jay Linford Pegged as Book's Thief

It took help from the United States Marshals Service and the FBI, but a first-edition Book of Mormon stolen from a Mesa bookstore has been located in Washington D.C.The theft of the book did not make the Mormon community happy, as folks used to stop by Mesa's Rare and Out of Print Books and Art stor ... More >>

Five Wives Vodka, Banned in Idaho, May Come to Arizona; In the Meantime, Feel Free to Pick Up Five Actual Wives

Ogden's Own Distillery, based in Utah, has been making some big news lately after one of its products -- Five Wives Vodka -- was banned from being sold in Idaho by the state's liquor division.In a letter to the company's distributor in Idaho, the liquor board wrote that its members felt the concept ... More >>

Russell Pearce Seems Incapable of Telling the Truth, Even About His Own Religion

Bad Mormon: Mitt Romney's Anti-Immigrant Stance Doesn't Jibe with LDS Teachings

Ask a Mexican on Mormonism and Mitt Romney

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See if You Should Hate Them or Not

​Just got done reading a hilarious take on Mormon history written by Pete Kotz and posted over at our sister paper in Denver, the Westword.Colorado doesn't know Mormons like we do, so we figure the piece should go over well here, too. He's got over 500 comments on it, which ain't bad.We'll post so ... More >>

Russell Pearce in Trouble with LDS Church, Brahm Resnik Scores

Kudos to Channel 12's Brahm Resnik for this story about state Senate President Russell Pearce landing in scalding H2O with his own Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was at the same recent Republican Legislative District 18 meeting, and when I learned about the footage of it availab ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 29, 2011

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 22, 2011

Warren Jeffs Released From Hospital After Failing to Starve Himself to Death

Warren Jeffs survived self-imposed starvation.​About three weeks after failing to starve himself to death while rotting in a Texas prison, child-raping cult leader Warren Jeffs has been released from the hospital and taken back to the big house.Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church ... More >>

Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sexually Assaulting Child "Brides"

www.article.wn.comWarren Jeffs​Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was in a Texas courtroom today, where he was sentenced to life in prison today for sexually assaulting two underage followers of his breakaway sect of the Mormon Church.See fo ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Possible Challenger Jerry Lewis, and the Yelping of Pearce's Media Lap Dogs

Channel 12's Brahm Resnik has outed a possible challenger to state Senate President Russell Pearce in the November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18: Jerry Lewis, and, no, not the cheesy dude on the telethons.Resnik writes in his blog that,"This would be Lewis' first run for elected offi ... More >>

Susan Brock Sex Scandal: Chandler Police Recommended LDS Bishops be Charged Crimes for Failing to Report

This apparently applies to alerting authorities that a 49-year-old woman is sexually abusing a teenage boy.​A new report released by the Chandler Police Department shows that detectives investigating two bishops in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recommended that the two men ... More >>

Susan Brock's Teenage Sex Scandal: LDS Bishops Won't Be Charged With Crimes, Pinal County Attorney Says

www.thecheckspot.com​Despite never going to police after they were told that a teenage boy was being sexually abused by Susan Brock, two bishops from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will not be charged with crimes, the Pinal County Attorney's Office says.Get all the deta ... More >>

Mormon Church Denies Prior Knowledge of Susan Brock Affair With Teen Boy, Which is a Lie

​The Mormon Church claims it never knew one of its members, 49-year-old Susan Brock, the somewhat-estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sexually abusing a teenage boy before her arrest..This, according to court documents obtained by New Times, is a lie.The church issue ... More >>

Russell Pearce Recall Paperwork Filed by Anti-Pearce Group

Halina Reed (left) and Somos Republicans' DeeDee Blase: Leading the (first) recall of Russell PearceOn the day that state Senator Russell Pearce's insidious, anti-American, and unconstitutional plot to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment was being ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 21, 2010

Angela Ellsworth on Being Gay, the Mormon Church, and Her Increasing Artistic Success

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 30, 2010

On Lamanites and a Controversial Understanding of Mormonism

Mormon Church Uses T.V. Drag Queen in New Arizona Promotional Ad

www.imdb.comThe Mormon Church's newest spokesman, "Man With Teats."​The Mormon Church has an interesting voice in a new television ad being aired in Arizona and Utah -- a seven-foot tall transvestite hooker.Well, he's not an actual transvestite hooker (as far as we know) but he played one on T.V.& ... More >>

Community Movie Night: Religulous

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 14, 2009

Mormon Magazine: Quit Energy Drinks Now and Avoid Being Slain by the "Destroying Angel"

If you know anything about Mormons, it's that they typically avoid coffee and other products with caffeine. Yet many Mormons recognize that caffeine isn't exactly heroin, and there appears to be a healthy debate within the Church of Latter Day Saints over the use of the drug. In the wake of an expl ... More >>

Omar Call Preaches Atheism on Tempe's Mill Avenue

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 18, 2008

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 18, 2007

Charmed

Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance novels made a Mormon mom an international sensation

Mesa Muttonhead

The veterinary vulture asks, is it merely hoof-in-mouth disease or the ravings of a racist dumb-ass?

Hi, My Name Is Ryan

The clown prince of Phoenix's downtown art scene is sacrificing madcap antics for a Mormon mission

It Practices What They Preach

Cast into the spotlight by fugitive polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs, the mainstream Mormon Church's trying to distance itself from its infamous cousin

Power Failure

Say it isn't so

Letters

Letters from the week of May 5, 2005

Saint Misbehavin'

Life on Planet Mormon

Religious Wrong

A state lawmaker's assault on the campus press is trickle-down from Dubya's White House

Quid Pro Crow

ASU's president puts the squeeze on freedom of speech to please his biggest donor

Janet's Missed Opportunity

Governor Napolitano went to Utah, and all we got was some lousy ring kissing.

Letters

Letters from the week of August 7, 2003

Devils and Mormonism

Letters from the week of March 27, 2003

Polygamy's Odyssey

A brief history of the Mormon tenet

Good Sports, Bad Religion

Letters from the week of October 17, 2002

Voodoo Priestess

Mistress' ministry melds Mormonism, magic and tropical fruit

Self Pleasure

Dustin Goltz exposes his talents in the self-centered but satisfying Banging the Bishop

Stapley Manner

County Supervisor Don Stapley made a killing on a shady development and sank the profits into a mansion. Then he told the tax assessor to value his estate at $863,000 -- while listing it for sale at $2.5 million.

Mission Persons

God's Army soldiers through Mormon trenches

A Killer Sleep Disorder

Scott Falater, a mild-mannered Mormon family man, inexplicably stabbed his wife 44 times, then drowned her in the family pool while a neighbor watched. His defense? He was sleepwalking.

UNEQUAL RITESA MORMON WRITER'S FORBIDDEN ACCOUNT OF HER TEMPLE MARRIAGE

THE DISTRICT SIXTHIS CONGRESSIONAL MATCH WAS MADE IN HEAVEN