Dave's Mormon Inquiry Weblog had an entry on Monday about a Mormon Women's Blog Ring. The rules are not surprising, but still somewhat irritating. Why is it that faithful Mormon sites/rings always seem to want to limit their contents and participants to people who think exactly as they do?

I'm not much good at reading Pro-LDS sites, but I read soc.religion.mormon and post there pretty regularly. And I enjoy Dave's Blog very much, with it's neutral approach and gentle reflection on issues. I'm not devout any more, but that doesn't mean I want to read polemics all the time. Perhaps, though, if I had limited myself only to positive sites when I was devout, I would still be devout.