Joanna Brooks

By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

bycommonconsent.com — The Mormon Church teaches little girls are immodest if they expose their shoulders. That is a scandal. Children can't dress immodestly for the same reasons seven-year-olds can't sin and twelve-year-olds can't enter into contracts. They don't have the knowledge and understanding that would give them the capacity.

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religiondispatches.org — What would you do if you were the conservative LDS parent of a thirteen year-old son who told you he is gay? That's the difficult question at the heart of a tender and essential new movie, "Families are Forever," produced by the Family Acceptance Project and premiering at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah this week.

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religiondispatches.org — What would you do if you were the conservative LDS parent of a thirteen year-old son who told you he is gay? That's the difficult question at the heart of a tender and essential new movie, "Families are Forever," produced by the Family Acceptance Project and premiering at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah this week.

Teaching Chastity

radiowest.kuer.org — Last week, Elizabeth Smart spoke at a human trafficking forum about her 9 months as a kidnap and sexual assault victim. She said one reason she didn't run

Did Mormon Morality Teachings Really Make it Harder for Elizabeth Smart to Run?

religiondispatches.org — Elizabeth Smart made big news this week-from Associated Press headlines to feminist blogs like Wonkette and Jezebel to the Mormon bloggernacle-when she connected her inability to run from her kidnappers to feelings of worthlessness stemming from harsh sexual morality lessons traditional to Mormon culture.

Elizabeth Smart, Mormon Girlhood, and Purity Standards

janariess.religionnews.com — Last week, Elizabeth Smart publicly reflected on her experience of being abducted and repeatedly raped for months at age fourteen: Smart spoke at a Johns Hopkins human trafficking forum, saying she was raised in a religious household and recalled a school teacher who spoke once about abstinence and compared sex to chewing gum.

Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family: Susan Katz Miller: 9780807013199: Amazon.com: Books

amazon.com — "A gorgeous and inspiring testament to the power of love to not only transcend the divides of faith and tradition, but to bring faiths together and create wholly new traditions." -Reza Aslan, author of No god but God and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth"Hallejullah!

Did Mormon Morality Teachings Really Make it Harder for Elizabeth Smart to Run?

religiondispatches.org — Elizabeth Smart made big news this week-from Associated Press headlines to feminist blogs like Wonkette and Jezebel to the Mormon bloggernacle-when she connected her inability to run from her kidnappers to feelings of worthlessness stemming from harsh sexual morality lessons traditional to Mormon culture.