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Nuns on the Bus: 2700 Miles, Nine States, and a Rock Star DC Welcome

By Mary E. Hunt

…bleachers, and eight speakers lined up to address the crowd. The audience numbered about 30. Even Timothy Dolan at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, on the kickoff day of the Fortnight, only gathered 250 people. The nuns got that many in small towns across the country at stop after stop. The bus trip also proved that there is a deep hunger across generations for this kind of faith-based organizing. The crowd in DC was surprisingly younger…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…he President acted like “a drunk tourist… Loud and tacky, shoving his way around the dance floor.” Of this, too, there were photographs, and video clips. Much has been written on Trump as a “reality TV president,” from the way his background on The Apprentice helped him into the White House to how that show was echoed in the theatrics of the transition process to Trump’s continued reliance on the dramatic tricks of the genre—and even pieces collec…

Yes, It Can Be Hard to Be an Atheist in America; Now We Have the Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…nia and Vermont, nonreligious people living in states like Mississippi and Utah have markedly different experiences.” “Stigma and Community Religiosity by State” chart is from “Reality Check: Being Nonreligious in America,” courtesy of American Atheists. Indeed, the 554 survey respondents from Utah rated their state more religious than respondents from any other state, although Mississippians reported a slightly higher degree of stigmatization of…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ts own faith under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA),” the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy recently reported. The opinion has resuscitated discussion of one of the issues at the heart of Bush’s faith-based initiative; “whether religious organizations should retain the right to employ only those of their own faith when the positions are funded with tax dollars.” • Faith communities fight poverty: The statistics are…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…Janice Shaw Crouse, who led the 2015 World Congress of Families summit in Salt Lake City; and Movieguide’s Ted Baehr. Also among the initial signers are anti-equality activists from around the world; many of them, like Nigeria’s Theresa Okafor, have participated in World Congress of Families summits. Also listed as signers are a number of religious leaders, including Foley Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America; Catholic Bishop…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…of the 2015 World Congress of Families summit, which will be held in Salt Lake City, the first time the gathering has been held in the U.S. The annual summit is an international gathering of anti-gay and anti-reproductive choice activists organized by the US-based Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society. Also organizing the Salt Lake City event is the Utah-based Sutherland Institute, whose president Paul Mero has argued that a free society…

How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism

By Benjamin E. Park

…s Smith’s belief in the importance of the doctrine, as well as the growing number of people initiated into the order. And though the prophet tried to stop the rumors from spreading, an increasing number of prominent figures outraged by the alleged practice were dedicated to root out the truth. Among those trying to expose the practice and its participants were Joseph’s brother, Hyrum, as well as his wife, Emma. Then, in May of 1843, in a radical r…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…uthern and Eastern European immigrants brought a Catholicism that ties the city with New York City and Boston as per capita the most Catholic in the country; how the Great Migration of African Americans brought new faith traditions; how it became home to one of the largest urban Jewish communities; and how Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists have added to the region’s spiritual diversity. Something else cuts across denominational lines, however, becaus…

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

By Joanna Brooks

On Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solomonese delivered a 150,000-signature petition denouncing Elder Boyd K. Packer’s controversial October 2 General Conference declaring that homosexuality was “impure and unnatural” and may be overcome. At a press conference, Solomonese, who was accompanied by representatives of the American Psychological Association, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, Equality Utah, and the Ut…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…informal disciplinary actions have been ordered by Church headquarters in Salt Lake City has been the subject of speculation; Church officials deny high-level coordination. But it’s also being reported that the stage may have been set for Kelly’s excommunication court when one high-ranking LDS official remarked at a regional leadership meeting in Virginia that support for women’s ordination should be considered a form of apostasy. That instructio…