Summary: <br> <br> [dropcap]H[/dropcap]ey party people! Welcome to another week in This Week in Mormons. The Sisters (not the great <a href="https://twitter.com/sistasinzion?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sistaz</a>) are here to recap the most recent week in Latter-day Saint news.<br> <br> Did you miss out on last week's dynamite interview with Dr. Matt Harris about Ezra Taft Benson and the rise of Mormon fringe conservatism? The Sisters adored it. You should adore it, too.<br> <br> http://thisweekinmormons.com/2019/09/episode-439-ezra-taft-benson-and-the-mormon-right-w-matt-harris-thunder-from-the-right-book/<br> <br> Are Mormon men "groomed" not to listen to women? Blogger Jana Riess <a href="https://religionnews.com/2019/09/10/mormon-men-are-groomed-not-to-listen-to-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says yes</a>. Some others say no. So let's talk about the ins and outs of this and also give you a chance to rake us over the coals for our Facebook post about it.<br> <br> Weeks after we broke the news that firearms and other weapons are now prohibited in church facilities, the trickle effect continues, as the institute at Utah Valley University <a href="https://www.uvureview.com/recent/news/utah-valley-institutes-new-gun-regulation-impacts-uvu-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had to clarify</a> that one cannot carry a firearm within the institute.<br> <br> http://thisweekinmormons.com/2019/08/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-updates-handbook-to-prohibit-firearms-in-meetinghouses/<br> <br> Lavina Fielding Anderson, one of the "September Six," a group of intellectuals excommunicated in quick order in the early 1990s, <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/09/05/writer-excommunicated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost her bid to be rebaptized</a>. Despite having attended her ward faithfully in the 25 years since her excommunication and having her request for rebaptism approved by local leadership, Church leadership in Salt Lake put the kabosh on the whole thing. Why?<br> <br> Time for Mormons Behaving Badly! A St. George chiropractor/fake doctor was <a href="https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2019/08/22/cgb-local-chiropractor-arrested-on-charges-of-sex-abuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> on charges of sex abuse. An Oregon driver's ed instructor who was also the bishop of his ward was <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/drivers-ed-teacher-mormon-bishop-burdick-abuse/283-4c74cac3-a6cf-43c8-baa7-31c2cbc8b6a5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> on sex abuse charges. A Utah County woman was <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/us-woman-arrested-at-manila-airport-with-newborn-in-bag/ar-AAGQBGG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> at Manila airport with a newborn in her bag.<br> <br> Two missionaries in Klamath Falls, Oregon were <a href="https://kobi5.com/news/homeowner-2-mormon-missionaries-injured-by-stray-bullet-in-klamath-falls-110123/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">injured</a> by a "stray bullet." More seriously, two missionaries serving in Canada were in a major car <a href="https://kjzz.com/news/local/2-lds-missionaries-in-critical-condition-after-vehicle-crash-in-british-columbia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accident</a>. Update: one of them has died.<br> <br> <br> Utah's Records Committee <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/09/13/utah-records-board-orders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> Brigham Young University's borderline discredited campus police to provide copies of emails between law enforcement and the Honor Code Office. It's the latest in a series of volleys against BYU's handling of Honor Code and other issues.<br> <br> In more lighthearted missionary news, a group of missionaries in Taiwan, in search of a Chili's (because we do desperate things when abroad for too long) helped a blind woman only to find out later on the entire t...
