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AMERICAblog: Pole-dancing Mormons make push for Olympics (seriously)

  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Having a pole dancer in a polygamous family means even while she's holding two or more babies wife #5 can still open a jar of pickles!!!
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    with her thighs!
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    prehensile p***y!
    oh no, you didn't!
  • Greensburg · 1 year ago
    I wonder if some brave mormon lass will do her routine on the trumpet that is being sucked on by the big boy angel on top their temple?
  • shanobama · 1 year ago
    I had a Mormon family in my childrens riding group......the mother had 5 children altogether. The interesting thing about her was she kept getting cosmetic surgery while claiming she did not have enough money to buy her kid a new saddle. She had her stomach flattened, she wore a lot of make-up, too, even painted on her eyebrows. I could never get this woman to turn in her paperwork on time for activities.

    She also was the only person who wanted to charge the group to use their horse facility. hummmm, all the other people gave us free use of their facilities, so we dropped her place for riding. She also 'borrowed' things from other members all the time and never returned them or paid for them. She still has one of my horse blankets she 'borrowed'
  • Upland_Oddball · 1 year ago
    What's next? Perhaps inviting the Osmond family act from Branson to perform before at the next Black Tie State Dinner for Elizabeth II.
  • unpoetaloco · 1 year ago
    Obviously, this doesn't require that the woman wear "temple garments," i.e. speical Mormon underwear.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    there's a chastity corset under the leotard.
  • Uberschall · 1 year ago
    Um... before you get too far into this, you should realized that this studio is located in the heart of Sugarhouse. Sugarhouse has THE highest concentration of GLBT in Utah. If there was a capitol of alternative lifestyle in the intermountain west, it would be Sugarhouse. Mormon population of about... maybe 5%- maybe less.

    You're really reaching on this one, John. But I'm sure you're having fun.
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    Reaching? What am I reaching on? The lady says she's a Mormon in the video.
  • Uberschall · 1 year ago
    So she does. Classic. I was wrong- I only read the story. This seems to be another case of the strange phenom among young Mormon housewives who feel the need to put on their tightest, skimpiest clothes when they work out. The hypocrisy is rather blaring... adding in a pole just makes it 1000x worse.

    Who the hell wears fishnet stockings and high heels when they go to work out? Oh yeah- strippers.

    It's humbling to have to see LDS women getting rebuked on modestly and sexual morals by a gay dude. There's a lesson in there somewhere...

    Oh yeah, and you know the editor threw in the "I'm a Mormon" soundbite just to get a rise out of the local population.

    Ohhhhhhhh! That sounds soooo bad!
  • John Aravosis · 1 year ago
    Okay, now you get why I posted this :-)
  • dad · 1 year ago
    false prophets
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Marie Osmond for President.
  • Raine · 1 year ago
    Donnie for SoS!
  • Roxie_Beaver · 1 year ago
    We don't need no stinking Olympic softball! Bring on the pole dancing!
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    I can wash forty four pairs of socks
    And have 'em hangin' out on the line.
    I can starch and iron two dozen shirts
    Before you can count from one to nine.
    I can put on a g-string and 6-inch spike heels.
    Do a cheap whore strip tease, poledance till dawn,
    ... and quote morals from Brigham Young.

    'Cause I'm a mormon...
    M-O-R-M-O-N
  • T. Scheisskopf · 1 year ago
    This is one of those times I really question why I chose sobriety. This is one of those stories that is just too damned hard on the chemically unprepared mind.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    and I was questioning if the Scotch from last night had worn off yet.


    I actually emailed the shortcut of this article to a friend... with "The Onion" in the subject line. It really does look like something you'd see on The Onion, doesn't it?
  • Older_Wiser · 1 year ago
    The Mormons sure do go for symbols of the Great Phallus, don't they? The whole religion is built around male superiority, after all--pole dancing should fit right in.
  • MaudGonne · 1 year ago
    An American security guard has been suspended from work at the US embassy in London after publishing a blog criticising the president-elect, Barack Obama.
    The decision to remove him was taken following "mutual" agreement between his UK employer and US diplomats, an embassy spokesman told guardian.co.uk.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/21/bar...

    unprepared.....
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Order the bumper stickers..... "Pole Dancers for Jesus"
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    that reminds me of Betty Bowers' "Christian Crackwhore Ministry"... their slogan is "If you're going to be on your knees anyway, why not do it for Jesus?"
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    Of course if the male version of this activity includes well-muscled, attractive men the appropriate bumper sticker would be:

    "Smokin' Pole for Jesus"
  • smallhandff · 1 year ago
    Well, the IOC has been proven to be as corrupt as any Republican politician & Mitt Romney, the erstwhile First Mormon, made his mark managing the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City years back. I'm just say'n........
  • RainbowPhoenix · 1 year ago
    This story brought to you by the producers of "You Can't Make This Shit Up."
  • PattyP · 1 year ago
    So if it's okay to pole dance and not be a stripper, it should also be okay to have a straight marriage but with gay people. I'm just sayin'.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    I bet Condie doesn't have those shoes!
  • MaudGonne · 1 year ago
    Filed at 12:56 p.m. ET
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Interior Department has taken disciplinary action against more than a half dozen workers who accepted lavish gifts, partied and in some cased engaged in sex with employees from the energy companies they regulated.
    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-O...
  • Sideon · 1 year ago
    They can't be "good" Mormons if they're not wearing their garments. Even if they're "bad" Mormons, I pray that those poles have been properly blessed and sanctified.

    If this sport gets into the Olympics, then we would be spiritually remiss if we didn't include the sport of "holding fast to the iron rod."
  • If the pole fits... · 1 year ago
    The "M" in "MILF" also stands for "Mormon"? Who knew?
  • RitornaVincitor · 1 year ago
    I'm sorry, but I find this story VERY dubious. Mormons? Gawking at lady pole dancers? Come on! That's not at all like Mormons, at least, not the Mormons I know. And I've known a few in my day, believe me. None of the young Mormons I've ever met would spend any time or money ogling pole dancers, UNLESS the dancer was a hunky guy, that is. Now THAT they would enjoy. Every single Mormon that I've known or worked with is a closet case. Yeah, sure, they were all married. One of them even named his kid after the guy he was head over heels in love with. But it's ok because it's a perfectly chaste relationship - meaning that the guy the Mormon is chasing happens to be straight, so nothing can happen. In fact the Mormon even asked me for my expert opinion as to whether or not his love interest was really straight. I said, "He's straight, sweetie. Some men are. Just not Mormons." Poor kid. He looked SO disappointed. Hey! Maybe that's why Mormons don't think lady pole dancing is sinful! It doesn't turn them on, so they think it's ok!
  • CostitutionalCommando · 1 year ago
    So pole dancing by Mormons to get into shape "Bad". But Pole Dancing naked for prurient interests in pursuit of money is "Good" . I must be missing something here.
  • PattyP · 1 year ago
    Nope, you got it exactly right! ;-)
  • nicho · 1 year ago
    As always, it's the hypocrisy, stupid.
  • LeftCoastOracle · 1 year ago
    We have to get these images on every media outlet in the country. Come on guys, email them to every media person you know. I'm starting with Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper.
  • Gindy · 1 year ago
    When we lived in Utah, the Mormons that went to the Bally's Fitness used to tuck their garments inside their gym clothes.
    I remember one woman who wore the skimpiest outfits with the sheerest of garments tucked under it while she worked with her ever so buff and handsome physical trainer. Her top was cut so low you had full view of some magnificent cleavage. Her bottoms were nearly not there but back in the dressing room she peeled off those garments before taking a shower.
    These people are wearing WAY the hell more than that woman did.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Hey, Sarah Palin would be great at this.
  • Georgenotbush · 1 year ago
    So this is why they have poles on the churches instead of crosses. I get it.....
  • PeerOne · 1 year ago
    Very good--this finally explains THAT mystery that I've been trying to figure out. Thanks George!
  • nicho · 1 year ago
    Reminds me of the time I saw a Muslim woman in head-to-toe black shroud coming out of Victoria's Secret with a couple of bulging shopping bags. I know they can get as sexy as they want when it's just them and hubby. It just looked so incongruous.
  • PeerOne · 1 year ago
    How funny...Band of Horses' "Great Salt Lake" just came on Shuffle.
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    Mormon, thy name is hypocrisy.
  • larry · 1 year ago
    ahhhh the LDS, what a surprise ...do they start at 12? Maybe Frontline can do a little piece on the church, the culture, and of course ...the pole dancin! So does Orin Hatches old lady do pole dancin?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Mormons are just so PERVY!
  • CostitutionalCommando · 1 year ago
    Seems like anti-Mormon bigotry is alive and well here.
  • Boycott Catholics · 1 year ago
    I actually saw this news and when they interviewed the dancers they said they were all Catholics. Go figure.
  • woodroad34 · 1 year ago
    And yet, didn't the Mormon church excommunicate or chastise the people who did the sexy Mormon missionary men calendars? What's wrong with those poles?
  • CostitutionalCommando · 1 year ago
    Woodroad34:

    I know of no formal action taken against the individual missionaries. But they did excommunication the producer of the calendar.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    i think the bigger story here is the pathetic lengths some women go to to keep their men interested...blech.
  • AdmNaismith · 1 year ago
    Nothing is more wholesome or all-american than the stripper pole. How dare anyone mock these women in their 6" wedges as sluts or whores. I believe the proper word here in traditional, family-values Utah would be Harlot.
  • beware of the leopard · 1 year ago
    If you doubt the athleticism of some woman who use the pole for entertainment value, I suggest you look up "Gravity Plays Favorites" on the fabulous interwebs. The perfect combination of eroticism and athleticism. Hot and fit. Don't forget creative. And huge fans of the Dresden Dolls.
  • Jet · 1 year ago
    There's stripper pole classes next to my office, so I can vouch for the athleticism needed.