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Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and making sure individuals who feel such attraction and their families feel welcome and part of the great worldwide family that is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” says church leader Elder L. Whitney Clayton in video on the site. He goes on to state: “We want you to know we love you. You are welcome. We want you to be part of our congregations. You have great talents and abilities to offer God’s kingdom on Earth and we recognise…

Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…profession where the matter of homosexuality is a settled question. A counselor is welcome to think it’s a sin all they want, but they cannot treat it as a sickness in need of a cure. Would Ms. Ward or Ms. Keeton have trouble counseling a Muslim, an adulterer, or a murderer? Could they put aside their personal prejudices against these sorts of people long enough to actually help them achieve mental wholeness or stability? If not, then counseling p…

Will Religion Solve the Obesity Crisis?

By Andrew Aghapour

…enceDaily reports that brain imaging studies have recently been able to model self-control in action, and that it tends to happen in two major places. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is associated with recognizing situations where self-control is needed. (“There’s salad and lasagna and chocolate cake at this all-you-can-eat buffet, and one of these has been causing me problems!”). The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) seems to manage self…

Texas Board of Education Wants to Change History

By Lauri Lebo

…conservatives and three liberals. Doocy, in characterizing the advisory panel, held up his fingers to emphasize the balance, an issue that particularly irks Texas Freedom Network’s Dan Quinn. “This is not a debate between left and right,” Quinn said. “This is a debate between radicalism and the mainstream.” “What they’ve done is the same thing they did with the science experts,” Quinn added. “They’ve packed the panel with ideologues whose politics…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…use to express our faith become our faith, and predict our actions. So when a child comes home convinced that she is “praying to the flag,” what are we teaching her to believe, about her country, about her religion, and about the real possibility of “liberty and justice for all”?…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…muel Alito quoted in the leaked draft of his SCOTUS opinion, which will likely deliver the anti-abortion crusade of the Right a decisive victory. The quoted footnote claims that there are enough potential adoptive parents to meet the “domestic supply of infants.” Otherwise, the mainstreaming of white nationalism will continue, past a tipping point, if we’re not already there yet. The “Great Replacement” and “White Genocide” are calls for violence…

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

By Michael Schulson

…with a single standard for Christianity. You’d have some conservative evangelicals telling Mormons that they aren’t really part of the club. Many would question the bona fides of prosperity gospel preachers. There would be small Bible churches insisting that everyone else is a heretic. Plus, some people would be confused about themselves—do I really count? Do I want to count? The difference is that, in the West at least, Muslim communities tend to…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…, our instructions for 21 year-old female missionaries. It’s starting to feel like a founding principle of our religion. I’d love to see us . . . get back to the good stuff. This is not our good stuff.” Some Mormons emphasize the importance of obedience for obedience’s sake as a key principle. Others ask whether disproportionate attention to dress standards sends the right message about the relationship between appearance and spirituality to LDS y…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…t, creationism is never specifically mentioned in the LSEA. Instead, LSEA relies on code language to attack the teaching of evolution and other subjects that Christian fundamentalists hate because it contradicts their narrow religious worldview – reality be damned. The language that was inserted into the LSEA, which the Livingston school district properly understood to mean it could teach creationism, says that the Louisiana State Board of Element…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…visiting schools and attending public events with Satawake. A group of intellectuals and religious leaders in the predominantly Catholic country earlier this year urged Medina and the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs to declare Brewster “persona non grata” because of a U.S.-backed education initiative they contend seeks “to turn our adolescents gay.” In an Associated Press story by Ezequiel Abiu Lopez, local activists said that in spite of t…