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Our “Marriage is Between a Man and a Woman” symbol is an alternative for those opposing the recent “Marriage Equality” symbol and the movement behind it. Our symbol is composed of gender symbols and text as a rebus.

We supply the image as a square Facebook Profile image and in a rectangular format, with and without the phrase “Marriage is Between a Man and a Woman” printed below the image. They are available for download in multiple sizes. Just read the restriction below, then click on the size you want, then right click the resulting image to download it.

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Marriage Equality symbol

Marriage Equality symbol

Restriction – You are welcome to copy and use our “Marriage is Between a Man and a Woman” symbol in print or online as long as you use it to promote marriage as being between a man and a woman, and are not printing it on objects for sale or resale. It is fine to print it in a newspaper to promote marriage as being between a man and a woman. Our sale or resale comment applies to objects in which the symbol is a major component of the entire object/product such as t-shirts, cups, bags, posters, etc.. The images above are copyright Polson Enterprises 2013. We are Polson Enterprises. Read More→

3 Categories : Marriage Symbols

Many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church become emotional when they encounter the term “Mormon cult”.

Quite recently, October 7, 2011, Pastor Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas Texas, introduced Rick Perry, a presidential candidate running against Mitt Romney, a well known member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the Value Voter Summit in Washington D.C.. After that introduction, Pastor Jeffress was captured on tape visiting with attendees and the press telling them Mormons were not Christians and Mormons are a cult.

Since then Pastor Jeffress made the rounds of news media shows touting the same message, but more strongly emphasizing he thinks Mormons are a “theological cult”. When repeatedly challenged on one news show, Pastor Jeffress admitted Mormons are not a cult according to the definition of a cult in Websters Dictionary, but repeated his claim Mormons are a theological cult.

The current “Mormon Cult” ruckus caused us to wonder about the historical use of the phrase “Mormon Cult” as well as the statistics behind the current “WordQuake” initiated by Pastor Jeffress. Read More→

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As many of you know, in recent years Google has been scanning books by the millions. Their Ngram Viewer allows users to see how often a certain word or phrase was used over time in a certain subset of their collection of scanned books. Subsets include American English (books published in the U.S.), British English, English, and other languages as well. Ngram calls the entire collection and each of the individual collections, a corpus. Read More→

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Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have their own terminology and vocabulary. Visitors, investigators, neighbors, friends, and the press are often confused by it. Members regularly spew out terms that make nonmembers wonder what on earth they are talking about.

Just a few of the more common terms and phrases in our vocabulary are Stake Center, Ward, Stake, Patriarch, Relief Society, General Conference, Ward Conference, Personal Progress, Duty to God, Preach My Gospel, Choose the Right, Family Home Evening, Handcart Company, Prophet, Moroni’s Promise, Angel Moroni, Quorum of the Twelve, First Presidency, Home Teaching, Visit Teaching, Word of Wisdom, Priesthood, Elders Quorum, Patriarchal Blessing, Senior Missionaries, Temple, Utah Mormon, Stake President, Jack Mormon, Mormon Trail, Pioneers, Endowment, Family Proclamation, Institute, Seminary, Release Time, 72 hour kit, funeral potatoes, Green Jell-O, Pioneer Day, Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants, Bloggernacle, Mormon Times, Ensign, Nauvoo, Kirtland, Admon-ondi-Ahmon, Beehives, Sunbeams, Fast Sunday, Plan of Salvation, Mission Field, Return With Honor, Temple Work, and the list goes on and on.

In addition to terms used by members, the outside world often uses terms to describe us or events the Church or members of the Church have been associated with, some of which some are not always flattering. Those terms and phrases include Joe Smith, polygamy, cult, “are not Christians”, Utah, Salt Lake City, Mormons, Brigham Young, Mormon Bible, and more.

Yet more terms and phrases are added to the mix from things The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or prominent members may have done or been involved with in recent times. Examples of these include Mormon Helping Hands, Proposition 8, “and I am a Mormon”, Mormon Ads, Mitt Romney, Harry Reid, and more.

With the Church having its own lexicon and those outside the church using a limited number of terms and phrases to describe the Church and its members, an opportunity exists to follow the popularity of those terms and phrases as they work their way into mainstream news, literature, and culture. Some terms rise quickly and fall away, others stay for the long haul, while still more are replaced by others. Read More→

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a question on their official Facebook page, “What three words describe your faith as a Latter-day Saint?” on September 29, 2011.

The call for comments was already closed when we first learned of it from an October 4, 2011 post on LDS Media Talk by Larry Richman titled, Words That Describe Latter Day Saints. His post displays a word cloud (probably a wordle) of the responses that shows some very prominent single words including Love, Faith, Jesus, Hope, Family, Christ, Charity, and Truth, with several other responses in smaller fonts.

We started to wonder if the raw data might have more to offer and went over to Facebook and found the original post. The question, “What three words describe your faith as a Latter-day Saint?” received 577 responses.

Several members had trouble limiting themselves to three words, or to just one response. But the content of the responses was pretty interesting.

We noticed hundred of members (Mormons) chose to respond with phrases (like “Child of God” or “Faith, Hope & Charity”) instead of freestanding words like hope, forgiveness, Christ, Atonement. Read More→

2 Categories : Mormon Wordles

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gave a talk titled, Forget Me Not, to the Sisters at the September 24, 2011 General Relief Society Meeting.

We created a large word art Remembrance Chart from President Uchtdorf’s Forget-Me-Not talk for use as a reminder or a handout.

In Forget Me Not, President Uchtdorf, used a tiny flower with five petals, the forget-me-not, at a metaphor for five things it would be wise for the Sisters to never to forget.

  1. Be patient with yourself.
  2. The difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice.
  3. Be happy now.
  4. The “Why” of the Gospel.
  5. The Lord loves you.

President Uchtdorf elaborated on each of the five points (five petals). In “Be Happy Now” he told of the children’s story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when everybody lost sight of the simple joy of chocolate in their quest for a “Golden Ticket”.

We used several tools to create what we call a Remembrance Chart of President Uchtdorf’s Forget Me Not talk that can also be used as a handout.

Forget Me Not talk by President Uchtdorf

Forget Me Not talk by President Uchtdorf

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4 Categories : Remembrance Charts

A branch of our family was aware their family had been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a long time, but were not aware that any of their ancestors had actually came west as part of the Mormon Trail (1846-1868). Looking on new.FamilySearch.org one day, we noticed a lady in their ancestry, Carmellia Mariah Burgess, was born in 1844 in Nauvoo Illinois. We began to wonder if this young girl made the journey on the Mormon Trail and what had become of her.

As we began to explore her life, and that of her parents, William Burgess Jr. and Mariah Pulsipher, we began to learn that not only had Carmellia made the journey, so had her parents, and all four of her grandparents (William Burgess Sr., Violate Stockwell, Zera Pulsipher, and Mary Ann Brown).

The Mormon Trail Genealogy Chart is below, followed by information about how we created it. Click on the Genealogy Chart to view a much larger pdf version. Read More→

1 Categories : Family Genealogy Charts

The information below is being presented as an example of how you might be able to create genealogy charts of families related to yours that may help you overcome roadblocks in your own direct line genealogy research. Studying allied families that seem to move around with, live nearby, or intermarry with yours can provide clues to your own family’s heritage. Read More→

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Update – We provide this marriage symbol graphic in several other sizes and formats at

Marriage is Between a Man and a Woman symbol vs. Marriage Equality symbol.

We created this Marriage is Between a Man and A Woman chart a few years ago and thought everybody would “get it”, but instead most people do not understand the graphic. We have to explain the gender symbols and how to mentally stitch the graphics together like the Concentration game long ago.

We welcome your comments, but please don’t bash us on the issue. Read More→

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President Benson’s famous talk on pride was actually delivered by President Hinkley at a General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We frequently turn back to that talk and recognize how much work we still have to do to rid ourselves of pride.

Our wordle of President Ezra Taft Benson’s now famous talk on pride is below. It is considerably larger than other wordles we have previously posted on his talk on pride. Read More→

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