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The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

Mormons Condemn Anti-Gay Violence in Utah

By Joanna Brooks

…nt attacks on LGBT people reported in the last two weeks, faith leaders in Salt Lake City convened a candlelight vigil last Friday in the city’s historic Liberty Park. Hundreds attended the vigil and subsequent march through Salt Lake City; including representatives from American Baptist, Roman Catholic, United Church of Christ, Buddhist, Humanist, and Pagan traditions. But the “big news” of the event, according to vigil organizer Marian Edwards (…

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…ts planned by a loose coalition of grassroots Mormon groups nationwide. In Salt Lake City, Mormons Building Bridges stressed a very simple message of love and understanding, an important step, organizers felt, towards addressing feelings of pain, division, and estrangement over LGBT issues in Utah families, congregations, and communities. Members of the LDS Church will march with a more activist message and behind a different banner in Washington,…

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…ive faiths won’t touch. Considering all of this, when the Church supported Salt Lake City’s 2009 anti-discrimination ordinances, it was a notable leap. Perhaps some of the upper echelon are less concerned with the legal slippery slope given that the Supreme Court will soon decide on the larger issue, the constitutionality of Prop. 8, in Hollingsworth v. Perry. If, at some point, Utah is federally mandated to authorize civil same-sex marriages, the…

Mormon Women Knock at the Door, Are Turned Away

By Holly Welker

…lling itself Ordain Women, the group had already requested and been denied tickets to Saturday evening’s male-only priesthood session. Nonetheless the women and their allies walked to the Tabernacle on Temple Square to wait in the stand-by line for last-minute tickets. Instead they were met by church spokesperson Ruth Todd, who said, “This is no surprise to you, that we won’t be able to offer you a ticket or a place.” Then, as men and boys strode…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ip, a sure-to-be-profitable $1.5 billion investment designed to revitalize Salt Lake City’s downtown—yet another wholly owned commercial subsidiary of a prosperous multinational institution. Others express real reservations about the mall, voicing concern that a religious institution might have elected to revitalize its capital city by building affordable housing, or developing sustainable local industries that pay a family wage. One gay Mormon fr…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…States—have exported the U.S. Christian right’s extreme homophobia to the Brazilian context. They are also in Brazil’s congress. The “parliamentary coup” that removed liberal president Dilma Rousseff from office was accomplished with back-benchers affiliated with evangelical Christian groups. Indeed, the investigation against her was initiated by Congressional Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who had a history of anti-gay remarks (and called on Congress to…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…follow Taiwan’s lead on marriage in spite of religious opposition? At the South China Morning Post, David Ogilvie asks whether Hong Kong can “follow Taiwan’s lead on same-sex marriage and live up to its Asia’s World City tag.” He notes that anti-gay religious activists, while not large in number, are relatively vocal: Choi Chi-sum, general secretary of the conservative Christian group, the Society For Truth And Light, for example, has been given…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…nary program certainly no longer encourages Latter-day Saints to gather in Salt Lake City. I could go on. Can’t Broadway afford fact-checkers? Most egregiously, the play mischaracterizes Mormon theology. The elaborate showstopper in Act II, “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream,” shows Elder Price imagining the consequences of being a bad missionary. The problem is that contemporary Mormons don’t believe in hell—at least not the way other Christians understan…