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South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Denies Affair

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. Haley released a statement flatly denying Folks’ confession: ”I have been 100% faithful to my husband throughout our 13 years of marriage. This claim against me is categorically and totally false. It is sad, but not surprising, that this disgraceful smear has taken form less than a week removed from the release of a poll showing our campaign with a significant lead. It is quite simply South Carolina politics at its worst.” Maybe, or for South Ca…

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…be resolved in the next. With regard to public policy, Apostle Dallin Oaks’ 1984 internal memorandum, “Principles to Govern Possible Public Statement on Legislation Affecting the Rights of Homosexuals,” is still in effect: the Church opposes same-sex marriage, is apathetic toward anti-sodomy laws (gone in America in 2003 after Lawrence v. Texas, but certainly not internationally), and is cautious toward nondiscrimination ordinances and bills due t…

Why the Culture Wars Aren’t on their Way Out, Despite Rise of “Nones”

By Sarah Posner

…owed that while 32% of Americans aged 50 to 64 are white evangelicals, only 13% of those aged 18 to 29 are. The PRRI survey found similar trends: while white evangelicals make up 30% of those 65 and older, they make up only 9% of 18- to 29-year-olds. Back to Pew: The Pew survey also found there are now as many “nones” as there are white evangelicals—each makes up 19% of the US population. But the generational trends are traveling even more starkly…

The Anti-Gay Highway

By Kathryn Joyce

…we wanted to fulfill procreation. But the growing homophobia started in the 1990s when we had strong evangelical interest in Africa from conservatives; evangelists were coming to Africa at a time when America was struggling with HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues. That language started to come in. At the Lambeth Conference of 1998, African leaders were forced to confront issues of sexuality. When the Africans stood up, the climate was changed because then t…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…icion that I would be more like myself and not so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. I had stuck with this plan—umrah any time of the year, the further from the three sacred months the better, and then hajj some other year—until my recent stay in Indonesia. I met an Indonesian fashion designer who had one of those life-altering experiences about 15 years ago, after flaunting around in Milan, Italy, where she studied fashion. From that moment on, sh…

We Were Here Before September 11th

By Amina Wadud

…ration, and next generations from these two, i.e. new births. Over the next 100 years, leading up to September 11, 2001, all three of these avenues continued with only slight variations and abatements of immigration, because the laws changed three times. In the middle part of the 20th century, the largest influx of immigrant Muslims came. Now again we experience great restrictions on immigration (and not just against Muslims). The one constant in…

Why Isn’t Ferguson the Start of a New Civil Rights Movement?

By Rebecca Sager

…t they haven’t even begun to approach the power they wielded until the late 1970s. In my research on how progressive religious groups are working in politics I found there were myriad causes for why the movement had faded, from the spread of prosperity gospel, to tension between secular and religious activists within the progressive left, to the dwindling numbers in progressive pews, to the religious right’s monopoly on political religion. Perhaps…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…s swelling for the final weekend days (although nowhere near the numbers of 120,000 the organizers claimed for the Saturday evening—local press estimated no more than 10-12,000). Certainly one of the main attractions was the energetic local gospel music performed every night for hours before the preaching and healing began. Not only did it get us and our students dancing at the ground, but we could continue to enjoy its rousing sounds from our hot…

Boo! Trump’s Lead With Religious Voters Not As Bigly As You Might Think

By Daniel Schultz

…y wins men 32-30, but Clinton romps among women, 51-22. The most important numbers may be still to come, however. PRRI looks to be releasing new information on the Catholic vote on Halloween, a number which often closely tracks the final total of overall voters. It’s also a number that varies quite a bit by the racial breakdown. While Trump wins white Catholics 48-41, he gets absolutely crushed among Hispanics, 84-12. A few back-of-the-envelope ca…

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ouse, and his colleague, Rob Tisinai, gives a better breakdown of what the numbers really mean—and it isn’t a rousing success story about “change.” “Out of 98 highly-motivated subjects, the authors found that a small, unspecified number can use prayer and counseling to shut down their sexual feelings or become a bit more bi. And possibly none who turned straight.” Even the researchers call their conclusions “overly optimistic.” “These results do n…