Friday, November 28, 2025

Gregory L. Smith's review of "Queering Kingship in the Mormon Cosmos"

The Interpreter Foundation just published a book review by my friend, Gregory L. Smith:

 

Intellectual Colonialism and Air Bud Theology: More on Queer Theory and The Church of Jesus Christ

 

It is a review of Taylor G. Petrey’s Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos (2024).

 

It is a devastating review, showing that Petrey is (1) incapable of exegesis and (2) engages in deception to support the skittles movement.

 

For a previous review by Greg (this time of Petrey’s Tabernacles of Clay), see:

 

Feet of Clay: Queer Theory and the Church of Jesus Christ

 

Funnily enough, Petrey’s work is tainted with a lot of misogyny. A (real, biological) woman discussed this in detail:

 

V. H. Cassler, “Plato’s Son, Augustine’s Heir : ‘A Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology’?,” SquareTwo 5 no. 2 (Summer 2012)

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