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Being both religious and cool is difficult in a society that increasingly scoffs faith, and being religious and cool is especially difficult if your religion demands that you do totally uncool things, like eschew beards and tattoos or wear religious garments under all of your outfits. So, how do young Mormons cope? More »
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Most of last night's episode of Sister Wives dealt with the wives joining a gym and working out. It was especially tough for Jenelle, the heaviest of the wives, because she doesn't like to talk about her weight, and feels that it's the one area of her life where she lacks strength and confidence. More »
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Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate with whom your grandmother would most like to waltz, has caught flack in the past for his conveniently flippity floppity views on abortion. Like many of his Republican brethren, he says now that he opposes abortion in all cases except rape, incest, or to preserve the health of the mother. But did you know that he once physically blocked a woman who needed a life-saving abortion and told her not to go through with the procedure? And did you know that Eliza Dushku's mom is involved? More »
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Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily recommendation of random things that we've actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we'd actually tell our friends about. And now we're telling you. More »
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The events of last night's series finale were shocking for some, but what's even more surprising is the admission by the show's creators—in a post-show interview—Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer that Big Love "has always been a feminist show." Really? Yes, really. More »
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On last night's penultimate episode of the season, Adaleen discovered JJ's fertility secret, Barb implied that the women of Utah are depressed drug addicts, and Bill continued to prove that his logic on polygamy is flawed and sexist. More »
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On last night's episode, many of the Henricksons found themselves in danger—at the hands of a Mexican cartel, gender-bending polygamists, and anti-gaming Evangelicals—but it was Nicki's infertility and her mother's seemingly impossible pregnancy that were most compelling storylines. More »
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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, the snow affects couch potatoes, Bobby Brown returns to reality television, and polygamist moms exhibit their weird senses of humor. More »
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Last night's episode—titled "Sins of the Father"—should've been called "Not Now," because that seems to be the Henricksons' mantra. For a family perpetually caught up in moments of self-imposed crises, they never have time for urgency. More »
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On last night's episode, Alby continued to play it straight, except when behind closed doors, while Nicki attempted to shed Cara Lynn of her fundamentalist ways through a new wardrobe. But faking it isn't easy or fun for anyone. More »
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This week's Big Love sees the characters torn between what they want for themselves and compromising for the sake of everyone around them. Bill toys with politics, Nikki battles competing allegiances again, and Sarah officially leaves the flock. More »
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As last night's season premiere illustrated, polygamist Bill Henrickson's got 99 problems and a bitch ain't one—more like three or four of them. Also filling his plate were crab legs, a casino, Kenny Rogers, and his father-in-law's corpse. More »
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Season 4 of Big Love returns on January 10, and in this trailer, we see that Margie's home shopping business has taken off, Nicki's daughter is still around, and Bill has decided to run for Senator! More »
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•  Chinese officials are cracking down on an illegal condom factory in the Hunan province, which produces "counterfeit" condoms that offer little to no protection. To make matters worse, the condoms were packaged by shirtless men without any sterilization. •  More »
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Raymond Jessop, the first FLDS member to go on trial, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his marriage to an underage girl. "This is a case about the flesh and blood of a victim," argued prosecutors. [UPI] More »
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The first of a dozen FDLS members accused of the sexual abuse will go on trial today. Raymond Jessop faces up to 20 years for his "marriage" to an underage girl. [MSNBC] More »
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Even though 'Men on a Mission' got its creator excommunicated, now Chad Hardy is launching a "sexy Mormon moms" version. More »
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On last night's season finale of Big Love, Nicki was reunited with her 14-year-old daughter, Cara Lynn, from her first marriage. Their conversation helped explain a lot of Nicki's questionable motives. More »
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On last night's episode, Barb returned to the LDS to receive her Endowment, a super-sacred ceremony that's intended to be "secret from the world," which is why HBO's reenactment of it was so controversial. More »
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Maybe we're attracted to the mystique of polygamous Mormon sects, or to being confronted with blatant sexism, or to Chloe Sevigny's character's wardrobe — whatever the case, we're totally into HBO's Big Love. More »
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Well 2008 is finally ending and what better (read: horrible) way to wind down the year than with an update about our friends from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? More »
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• According to a survey commissioned by Cycling England, 58% of English women don't ride their bike to work because they don't want to arrive sweaty and 27% avoid riding because they don't want "helmet hair." • On Thursday, Tennessee State University gave degrees to 10 black students (3 of them posthumously) that the University had previously expelled after the students were arrested as part of the Freedom Riders in the '60s. • A former Mormon in Utah (and founder of WordPress!) responded to calls from the Mormon church urging him to support a proposition to outlaw gay marriage in California by giving $1 million to a group opposing the proposition.• More »
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Before I looked at the New York Times Magazine photographs of the young women of the FLDS, I figured that the photos would be reminiscent of Diane Arbus, who was famous for her simultaneously arresting, voyeuristic and arguably exploitative photographs of fringe subcultures (nudists, circus freaks, genetic anomalies). But Stephanie Sinclair, the Times photographer who was given unprecedented access to the quotidian goings on amongst the female members of the FLDS, has a much softer, subtle touch. Her photographs are moving in their mundanity; strip away the bizarre bouffant hairstyles and dowdy prairie dresses and the women of the FLDS look like any other young women caring for small children. However — and it's difficult to know if this is an accurate representation of the culture, or a deliberate choice on Sinclair's part — there is a certain weary blankness imprinted on the faces of the women. The only smiling females photographed are those under 10 years old. More »
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Sure, there are the sex beds and the surveillance towers and the hairdos and the unprecedented rate of birth defects, but at the end of the day, I am a nerd and the biggest source of curiosity regarding the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints is where they get their money and how they are using it. So thank you, Portfolio for your May story about the accountant appointed by the state of Utah to manage the $110 million Pederasty Economy. Bruce Wisan was appointed to privatize the property once controlled by Warren Jeffs, who was a destructive lunatic who played a sort of Stalin to his dad's Lenin. Jeffs would order grain elevators dismantled in the middle of the night; if he decided to purge a man from the community — which happened often when that man coveted one of the others' wives or houses — he trained teams to "move a house in less than an hour." More »
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So these polygamists: how did they pull it off? How did Warren Jeffs find time time to impregnate 70 women and run from the law? When your spiritual leader is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List and you've been chased out of two states and your creepy molestation cult is the subject of a Jon Krakauer book, just how do you go about finding the proper plot in West Texas on which to build your theme park-sized compound and commence bilking the government? Don't these people have a problem with birth defects? What of all the excess dudes? 100 years we've been putting up with this? What, is there some formidable pro-polygamy lobby keeping authorities from charging all these creepy old men marrying 13-year-olds because it will "break up families? (A: yes!) Didn't homeowners in El Dorado fear the whole "Waco" stigma? (Also yes!) Why was a sixteen-year-old who didn't even know how to spell her name the proverbial smoking gun here? And what's with the macro diet? Does it make up for all the inbreeding? Glamocracy's Megan Carpentier and I yearn to know more about Yearning For Zion, and we do all the morbid internet research so you don't have to, after the jump. More »
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A bunch of Mormon kids from Brigham Young University are freaking out about the video programming at their local Gold's Gym, calling it "pornographic," even though no nudity or sex scenes are involved. (One of the offensive sources cited is Ludacris' music video for "Shake Your Money Maker," which features women dancing in shorts and bikinis, and giving the middle finger, which already has a "censored" box placed on it.) Five student-run anti-pornography organizations sat down with the gym's director and made demands that include, among other things, banning R-rated or sexually explicit PG-13 movies and installing blinds on aerobic room windows to block views of "provocative dancing." [Desert Morning News via AVN] More »
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Marie Osmond, being the good Mormon that she is, loves nothing more than...self-exploitative capitalism! The Dancing with the Stars runner-up has created a line of dolls for her QVC collection that bear her likeness and come cloaked in recreations of her costumes from Dancing. They are scary. [E! News] More »
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