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LGBT...Q? Polygamy in the age of Marriage Equality Erraticus Image Source by Matt Popovich
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Essays Society 

LGBTQ . . . P? Polygamy in the Era of Marriage Equality

July 24, 2018June 3, 2020 10 min read Erin Moore Child Abuse, Inequality, Mormonism, Politics

Same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015. Ever-individualized notions of love, sexuality, and gender identity broaden our definition of family—but will we make room for polygamy? Should we?

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Childlike Truth

April 18, 2018January 26, 2020 1 min read Caitlin Grimes Child Abuse

“You think I’m pretty, innocent, and sweet / Yet innocence and sweet is not what I’ve seen”

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Why So Serious, Part One: Child Abuse
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Ideas Psychology 

‘Why So Serious?’: Child Abuse in the Dark Knight

November 11, 2016June 3, 2020 3 min read Joshua R. H. Parsons Child Abuse, Film

 The actions, nonetheless, of our parents and the mentors of our youth bear heavily on our psychological, social, and neurological development.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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