Ep 167 — Callis, Kimball, Skousen, Gilbert–Utah & BYU Police State | Minority Report

Glass Box Podcast

BYU and SLC anti-vice. We discuss the history of Charles A. Callis, his career in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and politics, and his final assignment before death, creating a sexual purity surveillance and counseling/therapy program for Mormons in the 40s. After his death, Spencer W. Kimball took the reins and vastly expanded the reach and purposes of the program, resulting in The Miracle of Forgiveness. Cleon Skousen was running raids on gay clubs and anybody else seen as commie enemies of god’s country. The systems they created have adapted, evolved, and conformed to the times, but never gone away, as evidenced by the recent SL Tribue piece about BYU’s retrenchment and culture of fear. Then we chat about Minority report, a Tom Cruise sci-fi flick with surprisingly profound concepts. We wrap with happy news about the first openly transgender congressperson in American history.

Show Notes:

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/05-the-miracle-of-forgiveness/

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/16-the-cure-2-0/

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/gay-rights-and-mormonism/07-salt-lake-city-gay-scene/

https://archive.org/details/spencerwkimballt00kimb/page/271/mode/2up?view=theater

https://ourphoenixfoundation.org/includes/about.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_International

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/gay/individuals?lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/transgender/understanding?lang=eng

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/01/05/byu-blue-why-these-are-dark-days/

https://fairnessforall.org/the-utah-compromise/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Cleon_Skousen

https://police.slc.gov/about/history/

https://lris.com/recent-developments/2012/05/salt-lake-city-vice-squad-disbanded/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Talmage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_hearings

https://prophetsseersandrevelators.wordpress.com/2021/10/31/the-political-manifesto/

https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/DE2/id/201100

https://news.google.com.au/newspapers?nid=Aul-kAQHnToC&dat=18961109&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/e/ELECTIONS.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_(Utah)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_United_States_presidential_election_in_Utah

https://archive.org/details/improvementera3707unse/page/434/mode/2up?view=theater

https://archiveviewer.org/collections/en/improvement-era#1934

https://mormonstudies.as.virginia.edu/david-o-mckay-diary-excerpts/w-cleon-skousen/

https://www.qsaltlake.com/news/2009/09/28/the-oppressive-50s/

http://www.nomorestrangers.org/timeline-of-mormon-thinking-about-homosexuality/

http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/fghij/Jack%20Pembroke.html

https://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/sensibilities/utah.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Utah#Conversion_therapy

https://books.google.com/books?id=rlC1DgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Brigham_Young_University_LGBTQ_history

https://web.archive.org/web/20100122080551/http://www.affirmation.org/memorial/joseph_fielding_smith.shtml

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1981/04/elder-charles-a-callis-twentieth-century-missionary?lang=eng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Callis

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2001/04/them-that-honour-me-i-will-honour?lang=eng

https://thesingleleaf.com/tag/charles-albert-callis/

https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-apostles-last-dispensation/charles-albert-callis

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/2d1fb5a0-211a-4908-baca-5e3dd9e145eb/0/178?lang=eng

https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/charles-albert-callis-1866?lang=eng

Article Shannon brought up: The Role of the LDS Church in Utah Politics: An Insider’s Look https://www.mrm.org/utah-politics

MOGP: Minority Report: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/?ref_=tttrv

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/minority-report

Happy News:

https://apnews.com/article/sarah-mcbride-congress-transgender-lgbtq-delaware-9cce7f778e6b57dfdb08986d7410404e?taid=677918364fe1660001b83485&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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