Today, a judge ruled video of next week's trial on the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban could be uploaded YouTube. Now a question looms larger even than Prop. 8's constitutionality: Will the trial go viral?

Earlier this week, we called congressman Jason Chaffetz a self-hating weirdo, an asshole, a probable closet case, and the son of Kitty Dukakis. He is not the son of Kitty Dukakis. We regret the error.

Washington DC will allow gay marriage, yay! But because DC is not allowed to govern itself, the legislation can still be revoked by the US Congress. No one in Congress really wants to get involved. Besides one Republican hero! (Corrected!)

Go Utah! Only a fraction of you are crazy! It is initially surprising that conservative, lily-white Utah is less nuts than, say, Virginia. But when you think about it for a minute, it makes sense.

This afternoon, President Obama will meet with Thomas Monson, head of the Mormon Church. They will talk about family history. They will probably not talk about when the Mormons baptized Obama's dead mother. [CBS]

Future president Mitt Romney is both a "Bainiac"—a data-obsessed business android indoctrinated into Bain and Company's cultish worldview—and a Mormon. So his foreign policy is a weird, numerological, schematic mess. Here it is in PowerPoint, his native language.

The Way We Live Now: Telling Mormons we're not fucking interested. Just like before the recession! But now the Mormons are selling security systems, which you need to protect your secret stash of opulent home furnishings. Come back, Mormons!

The Mormons posthumously baptized Barack Obama's mom! Isn't that sweet of them? Sweet and creepy? Well, these things happen. This particular thing happens a lot, in fact.

Today is: Gay Utah finds a new prom queen, Non-Gay Utah hates freedom, Sahara continues to hemorrhage money, Twilight newz!!, and frigging Octomom.

Senator Orrin Hatch is one of those easily caricatured figures of cartoonishly prudish conservativism, so naturally everyone back home in Utah is now furious with him for associating with black criminals.

Yesterday we told you about the current Real World: Crooklyn cast that is filming all over our trendiest borough, and its maybe-gay (?) Mormon virgin fellow who the producers are trying to get laid. Because, ha ha ha, it's fun to watch people violate all they stand for and cheat on their fiances. Totes hilars. Some of…

As we're all too aware, the new season of MTV's once pioneering, now blotto and lonely reality series The Real World is currently filming in Brooklyn. The cast members live in Red Hook, but party in Williamsburg and shop downtown and all that hip, hip Brooklyn stuff. And, conceivably, the dudes meet chicks. Except one…

An LDS spokesman dropped by to tell us that no, the LDS folks did not try to buy into Facebook. I was going to say, this'll teach us to listen to barroom rumors. But it won't, it won't.

Brooklynite Zack Klein claims that "an employee close to the deal" — translation: somebody was drunk — told him the church San Franciscans love to hate "made an unsolicited bid to acquire Facebook." The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was estimated in 1997 to have $25 to $30 billion in assets and a $5…

The LAT ran a fascinating piece today on Richard Dutcher, the filmmaker who was anointed the father of Mormon cinema after his 2000 sleeper hit, God's Army, ushered in a wave of Mormon-focused indie flicks. Now, Dutcher is releasing what's being marketed as "the first R-rated Mormon movie" — and it's a doozy,…