Mormons

Do states reverse and flip-flop back the other way?

Yeah, so there are mostly religious groups, Catholics and Mormons, who will come back at the court and try to get the law l- like, stalled, so sometimes it can turn on and off.

Mm-hmm.

Um, so there are court battles that can be had.

Three.

What is something about growing up Mormon you've come to appreciate over time?

Hmm.

This assumes you grew up Mormon.

Right?

It does.

It does assume.

It's-- in my case, that is correct.

So that is an insane lineup.

Let's add in Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which I'm watching right now, the new season.

It's not great, but I'm watching it, of course.

Um, Earl meets worlds, which is Alex Earl's family.

Um, which is produced by Khloe Kardashian.

I think the Kardashians are coming back shortly.

I think OC wives, what is it? Mormon secret lives of Mormon wives OC or something that is, which is like a bunch of influencers.

That should be an interesting watch that's coming.

This would be just so much more interesting if like, It's like the Beverly Hills.

It's not Mormons anymore.

It's ratchet bitches that were together on TikTok.

It's TikTok hoes versus TikTok bros.

The Mormon church should

have nothing to do with this

anymore.

Oh, my God.

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So Jared, as a Mormon, you viewed Jesus in a way that I've actually never heard anyone say before.

So I want you to explain.

Before we get into your story of how you came to faith in Jesus and you're no longer a Mormon, as a Mormon, you viewed Jesus as a celebrity.

So explain that for a second to get started.

Yeah, I think there was always a, you know, the word holy was always thrown around for sure.

But, you know, as a Mormon, I think there was almost a spiritual disconnect when talking about Jesus.

Like I know, you know, Book of Mormon, the Bible is all about Jesus.

And I don't know where it leaves us.

Future Angie here, we just learned that Taylor Frankie Paul is quitting The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

She posted on her Instagram page and called out her castmates for what she said was cyberbullying.

There's the update.

Yeah, and a lot of the interesting, I think it was initially the strength of the show, and now it just is... again just feels overwhelming is how much these women are posting in real time like they're posting shade about other people they're in each other's comments accusing people of each other of things and again i think if you're hinting at like silly goofy i don't like you fun in season one and season two that feels different than what this feels like uh it's it's it's a lot

This is interesting because, well, you know that I watched the first few episodes of this show, but I haven't kept up with it.

But my like running theory about it is that it is not a show about the secret lives of Mormon wives.

It is a show about teenage pregnancy.

Henry Clay, the great compromiser, came to the rescue, and in 1850 California was admitted as a free state.

UTAH On the long road to California, in the midst of forbidding and barren waste, a religious sect, the Mormons, had planted a colony destined to a stormy career.

Founded in 1830 under the leadership of Joseph Smith of New York, the sect had suffered from many cruel buffets of fortune.

From Ohio they had migrated into Missouri, where they were set upon and beaten.

Harried out of Missouri, they went into Illinois, only to see their director and prophet, Smith, first imprisoned by the authorities, and then shot by a mob.

Having raised up a cloud of enemies, on account of both their religious faith and their practice of allowing a man to have more than one wife, they fell in heartily with the suggestion of a new leader, Brigham Young, that they go into the far west beyond the plains of Kansas.

into the forlorn desert where the wicked would cease from troubling and the weary could be at rest as they read in the bible in 1847 young with a company of picked men searched far and wide until he found a suitable spot overlooking the salt lake valley returning to illinois he gathered up his followers now numbering several thousand and in one mighty wagon caravan they all went to their distant haven Brigham Young and His Economic System In Brigham Young the Mormons had a leader of remarkable power who gave direction to the redemption of the arid soil, the management of property, and the upbuilding of industry.

He promised them to make the desert bloom as the rose, and verily he did it.

She is...

You know, Mormon.

She's Latter-day Saint.

I was raised Mormon.

You know, I have family out in Utah.

She lives out in Utah.

And unfortunately, I think a I don't want to take that away from people.

Like I'm a homeless kid from the hood who grew up in Mormon church, who has drug addict, alcoholic parents, who has a learning disability.

And I'm like, okay, cool.

Along this whole path, I have decisions to make.