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Christian Inmate Suing Indiana to Recognize Religion

By Daniel Silliman

…According to prison policy, something can only be deemed a religious item, officially, if it is listed in the IDOC’s Handbook of Religious Belief and Practices. When the prison system transferred Glenn from one facility to another in 2012, a prayer rope was confiscated, along with a clock, cat toys, a hat with nine metals on it, a waste basket, gloves, and a whisk broom. Glenn sued the IDOC for destroying his property, estimating the damage at $33…

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

…e his death in the fifth century, Moroni, a proto-American Indian, had deposited these records near Smith’s home. (In the Latter-day Saint tradition, angels are deceased humans—not so distinct from the Roman Catholic understanding of Saints.) Latter-day Saints associate this appearance of Moroni with a verse from John the Revelator’s vision of “another angel fly[ing] in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dw…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…lay at the ideological fringe. For example, a leading white supremacist website has an enormous, longstanding discussion thread devoted to “evidence that the conventional racial groupings match real genetic groupings.” Americans regularly take for granted what Stormfront seems so anxious to defend: that race is a feature of nature, handed to us by evolution and/or God, and that we all better deal with it. The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientist…

Immigration Issue Divides Arizona Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…impracticality and unfairness, and its meanspiritedness. The LDS Church’s official stance on immigration holds that immigration policy is “the province of government” but urges “compassion and careful reflection” in matters affecting immigrants and their families. The debate over immigration reveals a divide between Mormons who look to the faith’s future as a global church and those who hold to deep-seated ethnic Anglo-Mormon identity and view po…

Not All Muslims Are Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…n of killing the Republican frontrunner, hoping to seize a law enforcement official’s weapon and assassinating the billionaire? He even declared the operation was in ISIS’ name. But no, of course, you did not. Because none of these three was Muslim. The first terrorist was a Trump supporter who planned to blow up mosques, and even got as far as building the bombs necessary for it. Almost nobody picked up on the story. Jo Cox, meanwhile, was assass…

Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden

By Chrissy Stroop

…ance, or when his stance in favor of the death penalty, which clashes with official Catholic teaching, is in the spotlight. Of course, liberal Catholic politicians clash with the hierarchy too—on abortion access, birth control, and LGBTQ inclusion—and yet journalists show little interest in impugning their Catholic bona fides, instead portraying politicians as heroic for standing up against pressure from the Catholic Church. My reasons for caring…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nition went too far and now different sections of government have released official positions urging the electorate to vote for its defeat. The youth wing of the Christian Democrat People’s Party in the country’s most populous canton of Zürich has broken ranks with the main branch and also called for a No vote on “For the couple and the family”. Venezuela: Trans Legislator Sworn In The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports that Tamara Adrián,…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…Realization Fellowship to enter into a guru-disciple relationship with the official gurus of the tradition, including Babaji, Krishna, and Jesus, as well as Yogananda himself. She taught that the gurus, having attained loving union with God, could help their disciples attain that same goal. Having taken the vow of renunciation, Daya Mata prescribed that path for those who, like her, wanted to devote their entire lives to love of God. Furthermore,…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…U.S. agencies to engage in effective partnership with Jamaican government officials and cooperation with human rights advocates in civil society. Also this week, the State Department confirmed plans for Randy Berry, recently appointed special envoy for LGBT rights, to visit Uganda this summer after trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe. Watch a set of video interviews on Growing UP LGBT in East Africa, posted at KitschMix. Ireland: Cat…

Leaked Air Force Legal Opinion Approves Religious Expression

By Paul Rosenberg

…. must ensure their words and actions cannot reasonably be construed to be officially endorsing or disproving of, or extending preferential treatment for any faith, belief, or absence of belief. [emphasis added] In contrast, the JAG opinion stated: [A] commander may: briefly thank a Supreme Being (either generally, such as Providence, that Almighty Being, our Lord, or the Supreme Author of All Good; or specifically, such as Allah, Brahman, Christ,…