Editor's Note: This story was published while about 500 Ordain Women participants were preparing to enter Temple Square, during the Mormon Church's General Conference on April 5. A few weeks earlier, the Church had restated its commitment to keeping the meeting males-only, and requested that members of Ordain Women and the media stay away from the area. Wearing pants to church was one of those wild, screeching ideas that barrels into an otherwise normal day. Stephanie…

Utah: a land of contrasts. Utah is the greatest place in the world. They have everything: Taco Time and baby mini-horses and pumpkin patches, and also other things as well, most likely. In my time there I learned wonderful things. 1. A great many fervent young Mormons post videos of themselves receiving their mission calls to YouTube, and it's kind of like that part in season seven of Buffy when Willow activates all the potential Slayers at…

Oh my God. This was made up? This was MADE UP? I thought this was a real girl. I THOUGHT THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ME. I thought this was real? Okay, but how made up was this? "Edited" made up or "fiction" made up? HER NAME WASN'T EVEN ALICE? I think I heard about this once, maybe. I think maybe I heard about this a while back, but it just got absorbed into my…