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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…icide by shooting himself in the head. • February 12, 1909, San Francisco, California. 10-year-old Dorothy Malakanoff was shot and killed by 49-year-old Demetri Tereaschinko as she arrived at her school in San Francisco. Tereaschinko then shot himself in a failed suicide attempt. Tereaschinko was reportedly upset that Malakanoff refused to elope with him. • January 10, 1912, Warrenville, Illinois. Sylvester E. Adams shot and killed teacher Edith S…

Prop 8 and the War on Xmas?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sponsor such a measure—and if the proponents of Prop 8 prevail before the California Supreme Court, the courts may not the power to prevent Christ being kicked out of the season’s greetings. The November 4 vote, supporting an end to legal same-sex marriage in the most populous U.S. state, has caused a nationwide furor as opponents of the measure decry what they consider a civil rights violation. California’s highest court agreed on November 19 to…

Mormons Prepare to March in Seven LGBT Parades this Weekend

By Joanna Brooks

…our years ago this month that the LDS Church issued a letter to be read to California congregations urging members to full engagement in support of Proposition 8, setting into motion a headline-grabbing Mormon campaign to end civil same-sex marriage in California. Since then, Mormons for Marriage founder Laura Compton writes, there have been a number of subtle but observable changes in Mormon positioning on same-sex marriage, including: – The Chur…

Immigration and Anti-Immigration in the Book of Mormon-Belt

By Joanna Brooks

…ard across the plains to Salt Lake. When I was a little girl in a Southern California suburb, I donned a pioneer calico bonnet and skirt handmade by my mother every July 24 to celebrate my great-great-grandmother and other ancestors who had come from as far away as England to build an American Zion in Utah and Idaho. As an adult, I have reclaimed the holiday. My daughters and I have a new set of calico pioneer bonnets. (Mine is hot pink.) And ever…

Red White and Blue No Longer

By Peter Laarman

…efer to as “the minorities” (and other less polite terms). I say this as a Californian, where non-Hispanic whites ceased to be the majority group in 1999 but where whites still very much rule the political roost in ways that have terrible consequences for younger Californians of color. Seeing the end in sight, conservative white Californians began more than three decades ago to implement a series of voter-enacted restrictions on the raising of any…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…e was an evangelical, not a Southern Baptist. Born, raised and educated in California, Dobson built a foothold for his movement in the American West. More importantly, Dobson was not a preacher, but a licensed clinical professional. Before his rise to national political and media prominence during the Bush administration, the biggest feather in Dobson’s cap had been serving as one of nine experts on the controversial Attorney General’s Commission…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Limiting Abortion Rights Ballot initiatives in South Dakota, Colorado and California threaten to end or limit abortion rights. In South Dakota, anti-abortion activists have resuscitated a measure than failed to pass two years ago, by softening the language in the initiative, “includ[ing] language purporting to make exceptions for incest, rape or the life and health of the mother,” a recent New York Times editorial pointed out. The newspaper argue…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…escriptions, the group said.” ++++++++++ RD Tidbits • New poll results re: California Propositions 8 and 4: According to a statewide survey released on October 22 (by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with funding from The James Irvine Foundation) Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriages in California, is losing among likely voters 52 percent to 44 percent. Proposition 4, which would require a parent to be notified before a…

New Poll Shows Big Love For Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

With the defeat of marriage equality for gays and lesbians in California, Arizona, and Florida, and the banning of adoption by gay and lesbian people in Arkansas in the last election, it’s easy to believe that the majority of Americans oppose marriage and adoption rights for gays and lesbians. A new poll commissioned by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) paints quite a different picture. The Pulse of Equality Survey, conducte…

Museum of (In)tolerance for Divided City

By Shalom Goldman

…th mutual dread that has repeatedly exploded into hate-filled aggression.” Californian Foreign Policy It was in this maelstrom of political tension and religious emotion that the California-based Museum of Tolerance decided in the mid-1990s to build a branch of its Los Angeles campus. For those not familiar with Jerusalem’s recent history, a museum of Tolerance might seem just what the city needs. And as for calling it “a Center for the Human Dign…