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Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…hrightness in its response to the controversy engendered by Elder Packer’s talk and to efforts by national LGBT advocacy groups. In short, I believe we’ve seen something of a break from the old Mormon patterns of insider-outsider double-talk and insularity we saw during the Proposition 8 campaign, patterns I discussed at some length in a previous post, and which some LDS scholars attribute to a century-old minority mindset and a culture of adminis…

Romney Faces Sticky Questions about LDS “Doctrines” on Race

By Joanna Brooks

…lennium. It was, after all, the Cold War. But times have changed, that kind of talk isn’t really practical anymore. That’s the very distinction Mitt Romney—in refusing to talk about religious “doctrines” but agreeing to talk about faith “practices”—will put to work in the months ahead….

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…id during the second presidential debate, describing Syrian refugees. This talk about ideology and values would make it possible to deny that a Trump administration’s policies toward Muslims counted as religious or racial discrimination. But it’s open-ended enough to allow discrimination based on religious grounds (because ideology can easily be a proxy for faith) and racial grounds (ditto). From there, it’s not hard to imagine a kind of religious…

Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…tive research talk on racial justice work in and as Buddhist practice. The talk traced the multiple ways whiteness has operated in American Buddhism including the erasure of Asian American heritage communities and detailed some of the strategies by which Buddhists of Color and their white allies have been confronting structural racism in their communities for over three decades. While opponents have dismissed such initiatives as the intrusion of i…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…it would hate any of his followers who were walking the walk and not just talking the talk. If the world liked me, then I was of the world, the last thing I wanted. I reveled in being astringent, bracing, and honest. According to the Bible, salt that loses its savor is useless. It’s fit for nothing. Twelve years ago, I was living a life that was not lining up with my inner convictions and that became untenable. I mean, talk about hypocrisy. It’s…

TN Conservatives: Government Butt Out… Government Butt In

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of seven children and founder of the group “Something Better.” “If we’re talking about homosexuality, we are talking about specific acts that are going to be unhealthy for anybody to engage in outside of marriage.” Again, the depth of the ignorance is startling. I was a lesbian long before I ever engaged in a “specific act.” When we talk about heterosexuality we’re not merely talking about what a man and a woman do in bed, but that’s where conse…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…y. “To even mention the name of [homosexuality] was a sin,” said Jack. “To talk about sexuality in general was wrong. The ‘S’ word as we called it was in my family absolutely never mentioned. Things like masturbation—I didn’t even know what it was until I was 19 or 20. Sex was considered bad and wrong and almost like the boogeyman that you don’t talk about.” Gothard’s own brother, who worked for IBLP, was dismissed from his organization after it w…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…short of what these people need. I wanted to develop something positive to talk about what the Bible does say. Making a Biblical case for same-sex marriage is a little bit like making a biblical case for the abolition of slavery. None of the biblical writers ever dreamed of a society where slavery didn’t exist, so they didn’t talk about it. There is no statement in the Bible urging people to fight against the institution of slavery—it’s just not o…

La Carmina, Author of ‘The Little Book of Satanism,’ Talks ‘Satanic Panic,’ QAnon, Japanese Satanism, and More

By Joseph Laycock

…today are standing up for reproductive, LGBTQ and minority rights. Can you talk about the role of movies like Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist in shaping the Satanic Panic that peaked in the 1980s? These horror novels and movies were extremely popular, and brought forth the idea that Devil-worshippers were lurking in your neighborhood and plotting to steal your children. This frightening conceptualization of Satanists took over the popular imagina…

World Meeting of Families Again Positions Queer Catholics as Children

By Ashley O'Mara

…lics like me, the painful irony of “There is only us” is that Fr. Martin’s talk focused on “them”—meaning the very LGBT Catholics he seeks to include. Most recently famous for his controversial book on LGBT Catholics, Fr. Martin does make it clear that he doesn’t speak from the position of the queer Catholics whom he has come to speak on behalf of. He deserves some credit for using his privileged position as a respected Jesuit in order to start co…