[Update: The polygamy site is back up again. You can't keep a good site down.] Under the tagline "quick divorce," the SL Trib ran a story about a short-lived website on polygamy that was ever-so-briefly set up under the BYU domain, at polygamy.byu.edu. Evidently the precipitating event in the site's demise was an eight-word link to the site posted at By Common Consent's sideblog. Sheesh, imagine what would have happened had BCC run a whole post on it! The site's proprietor, a BYU employee at the Marriott School, has removed the site (but it looked something like this). Hey, everyone makes mistakes. Even so, if I were him I think I'd take a few days of sick leave. And maybe a vacation. Somewhere remote. Australia maybe.
The SL Trib story also claims that the same fellow who authored the polygamy site is one of three sponsors of the More Good Foundation, the other two being Daniel Peterson and Robert Millet. While one might leap to this conclusion from an entry on MGF's home page, I have been informed by one of the principals at MGF that Peterson and Millet were not involved with setting up MGF. Their only connection is short "video testmonials" posted at the MGF page on the importance of having a strong LDS online presence. I wonder if the SL Trib will correct their mistake as quickly as BYU took down the polygamy website?
As long as we're on the topic, MGF's home page practically begs fellow Mormons to go start a blog, mentioning Blogger and WordPress by name but inexplicably failing to mention my own favorite, Typepad. Following its own advice, MGF also runs the More Good Foundation Blog. Good on you, mates. Uh, more good on you.
[Note — rewritten morning of Feb. 6 to note that Peterson and Millet were not co-founders of the More Good Foundation. Update added on the evening of Feb. 6 to add a link to the site at its new location.]
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