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Why Romney Won’t Stand up to the Bigotry of Bryan Fischer

By Joanna Brooks

…about our interactions with non-Mormons who antagonize us. Believe me on this. In high school, one of my friends and track teammates wrote her junior year term paper arguing that Mormonism is a cult. She even gave me a copy to read. Did I enjoy it? No. But did that stop me from passing the baton to her when we ran the mile relay? No. And Fischer’s anti-Mormon rants won’t stop Romney from passing the microphone to him either. Third, Mormons have a…

A Plot to Kill God

By Paul Froese

…ke-home message for readers? It is easier to invoke God than to get rid of Him. This is one simple yet important conclusion I draw from the prolonged and often vicious experiment to eradicate religion from Soviet society. Communist leaders in the Soviet Union attempted something never considered by earlier rulers, be they emancipators or tyrants. For the first time in history, rulers of a modern state hoped to expunge not only the existence of rel…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Red/Blue ‘National Divorce’ Looks an Awful Lot Like a Confederate Flag

By Thomas Lecaque and Joshua Call

…=20 This is not an attempt at a peaceable solution, but an invitation to achieve a new nationalism via sedition. This is the organic consequence of allowing a Lost Cause mythology about the Civil War to not only survive but to win the battle for popular consciousness among a significant slice of White America; the idea that the war was about “states’ rights,” ignoring that it was always about the “states’ right” to permit ownership of another huma…

“Not a Fan of the Undergarments”: A Mormon Mother Blogs

By Karen Maezen Miller

…ust me here, you’d get everything, but Greg pulls me back. He prefers that his grandma not read about his sex life. I try to pretend my blog is a journal, but there’s a lot I don’t say. I see a lot of women giving up their blog for family peace. Not me, I want it all. What kind of church issues have you taken on? I am a fan of modesty, but I am not a big fan of the (under)garments, for instance. Seriously, sometimes I question the dichotomy betwee…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…ul and Jan Crouch, the founders of TBN, ventured into in the early 1970s. While TBN, which now boasts assets in excess of $300 million, got its start by buying up individual broadcast stations eventually expanding into the new technologies of cable and satellite, God TV hit the airwaves worldwide much more quickly because the satellite technology was already in place. What’s more, the Alecs could tap into an existing market for their product, than…

RIP: Bishop Otis Charles and Rev. Robert Nugent

By Peter Montgomery

…ed his wife of 42 years, and moved to San Francisco. He ran a gay ministry there and at age 76 he met Felipe Sanchez-Paris, who he later married. Sanchez-Paris died in July. Charles is survived by five children, ten grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled at 2 p.m. Jan. 11 at St. Gregory of Nysaa Episcopal Church, 500 DeHaro St., in San Francisco….

An Evangelical Intellectual Takes On Same-Sex Marriage, Grasps at Straw Men

By Eric C. Miller

…sex marriage, “seismic” is one of the most common. Given the centrality of California to this discussion, headline writers have found “Seismic Shift” difficult to resist. And it makes sense—the earth seems to have moved, structures shifted or collapsed. In recent weeks the metaphor has found fresh resonance. Opponents of same-sex marriage are frantically rushing to raise and brace their beams. Historically, opposition to gay rights has had a relig…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…the opinions of the group against survival decisions. With a young son watching him, Rick is left to blunder through the big stuff without a guide himself. Sometimes nebulous hope trumps all, as when Rick convinces his wife Laurie to carry a pregnancy to term, even though the consequences are predictably deadly. It’s the promise of a new life that the group rallies around, risking life and limb for formula and baby supplies. Sometimes the characte…

Marriage Opponents’ Greatest Fears Realized

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ore and more family and friends to be accepting of gay and lesbian partnerships. This is what anti-gay marriage forces fear the most – that marriage will normalize gay and lesbian lives. According to this survey – that’s exactly what it does. It is these types of studies that prove it will only be a matter of time before marriage equality becomes a reality in the United States. Anti-marriage equality forces understand that their “social science” a…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…st the violence of the oppressed in the ghettoes without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” That’s a deeper, more democratic understanding of responsibility than anything we heard in Denver. Obama has achieved something remarkable — he has restored liberalism to the political mainstream. But he has done so by abandoning liberation. Obama’s defenders insist he’s just doing what…