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

By Jared Farmer

…ry American: everyone gets a second chance, everyone wins. It would make a great, cheesy musical number. Mormons are ideal subjects for musical parody because they have their own homegrown traditions of musical theater. Not counting its uniformed missionaries, the most recognizable Mormon “product” in the religious marketplace is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (“MoTab”), which specializes in milquetoast Americana, including Broadway favorites. From t…

Archbishop Drops the Girl Scouts Amid Alarmist Rhetoric and Fake Accusations

By Patricia Miller

…mentality that paved the way for Trump. Like dioceses around the country, Kansas City is funneling girls into American Heritage Girls, a “Christ-centered character development program for girls” that puts a premium on active opposition to abortion, including having girls participate in protests at abortion clinics. It’s in this way that opposition to abortion has become, for so many, a cultural marker of what’s good and bad, right and wrong in Am…

Catholics Urge Pope to Remove Bishop Who Ignored Child Sex Abuser

By Patricia Miller

…made by 13 parishioners, a nun who coordinated victims’ assistance for the Kansas City diocese, and a priest, the Rev. James Connell. It was backed by an online petition signed by 113,000 Catholics. They asked Pope Francis to remove Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted in 2012 of a misdemeanor charge of failing to report a priest who had pornographic images of children on his computer. The priest is currently serving 50 years for taking the pictu…

The NFL’s Prayer Problem

By Sarah Posner

…the two prayers aren’t “similar:” one is Christian, and one is Muslim. The Kansas City Star reports Abdullah is a “devout Muslim” who promised himself that if he scored a touchdown, “I’m going to prostrate before God in the end zone.” Last night, he was penalized for apparently violating Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1 (d) of the NFL rulebook (“players are prohibited from engaging in any celebrations or demonstrations while on the ground.”) The leag…

As Trial Approaches, Accused in IHOP Murder Case Challenges Evidence

By Sarah Posner

…ed and a full investigation launched into Deaton’s death. According to the Kansas City Star, IHOP has denied that an “exorcism” took place, and maintains that the meeting was intended to “help” Deaton’s followers grieve Bethany’s death. (I have a source who was not at the meeting, but says “exorcism” was not a word IHOP would use; “deliverance” would be more like IHOP terminology. In any case, casting out demons and speaking in tongues are practic…

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…l-Mart pharmacy employee from Houston, who “told me he spent a week at the Kansas City IHOP, where young people pray around the clock, which he called ‘powerful and life-changing.’” IHOP, he told me, “stirs young people” and “keeps them continuously alert about the end-times. So they can’t be distracted because they’re continuously being bombarded by the preaching of the end-times so it’s continuously on their heart and their minds.” This is how I…

Radicalization Not Linked to Religion

By Julie Ingersoll

…ty about the difficulty of identifying signs of radicalization, it seems a Kansas City cop would be able to do so in the course of a writing a ticket. According to the Brennan Center study, 40% of the terror plots that have been thwarted by law enforcement have been discovered, at least in part, thanks to tips from Muslims. Yet surveillance, infiltration, and even what community members consider entrapment has left them feeling targeted as crimina…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…ensive interview with Clohessy at RD in March about efforts by the accused Kansas City priest and the Archdiocese of St. Louis to subpoena confidential records from SNAP. There, she wrote: While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for the Church to fight sex abuse cases more aggressively, even the Church’s staunchest defenders see the pattern. As William Donohue, the pugilistic president of…

“The Call” Warns of Antichrist Legislation in California and Beyond

By Sarah Posner

…ld Wal-Mart pharmacy employee from Houston, told me he spent a week at the Kansas City IHOP, where young people pray around the clock, which he called “powerful and life-changing.” (Antoine, who is African American, would not tell me who he was voting for but said he could not vote for a candidate who favored abortion rights.) IHOP “stirs young people,” Antoine told me, and “keeps them continuously alert about the end-times. So they can’t be distr…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…Turkey: Pride, under threat from Islamists and nationalists, cancelled by city officials City officials in Istanbul announced that the city would not allow the annual pride parade to be held this year. It was scheduled for June 26. A far-right youth group affiliated with the nationalist Great Union Party had held a press conference promised to do “what is needed” to stop the event from taking place. More from the Independent: Ömer Akpinar, a Turk…