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Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…e issue according to a template used successfully to fight gay marriage in Hawaii in the 1990s. Specifically, well aware that the church is viewed overall with more suspicion than respect, it formed a coalition with churches and organizations with better images, then bankrolled the coalition’s work. By the time the California Supreme Court ruled on May 15, 2008 that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, the fight to amend th…

Na’vi and Goliath: Palestinian Protesters Dress as Avatar Underdogs

By Shalom Goldman

…ng that President Obama took his family to see Avatar while on vacation in Hawaii, Wall opined: “What an incredible teaching moment this film provides.” Avatar shows, “the foolishness of following the path to destruction which the military-industrial complex insists is necessary for human survival.” The use of cultural references—both high and low—have long been part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of the larger Arab-Israeli conflict. Bib…

Birther Criticism Causes Computer Brain Freeze on Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…up about questioning something that Obama has said as fact, ‘I was born in Hawaii, when it was the United States.’” For the record, global warming opponents are upset at being compared to birthers. But everyone can just take it easy on the question of President Obama’s citizenship because Jon Stewart (beginning at about 3:05 in the video below) put the whole thing to rest last week in his “Watson”-inspired interview of Republican computer presid…

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting. President Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate can be seen here (PDF). As I write this, the president is on my television, an extraordinary political moment, th…

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

By Joanna Brooks

…righam Young University campuses in Provo, Utah, Rexburg, Idaho, and Laie, Hawaii have long had dress codes requiring students to dress conservatively, prohibiting shorts, skin-baring cropped tops, and “form-fitting clothing.” The popularity of leggings, jeggings, and skinny jeans (even Mitt Romney has a pair) has produced new attention in LDS communities to how those dress code boundaries are enforced and who bears the brunt of the enforcement. B…

Every Republican Candidate Should Have to Address Gay Rights Face-to-Face

By Joanna Brooks

…ibute to anti-marriage equality efforts across the nation, from Alaska and Hawaii to Maine. But after watching the video of Vietnam veteran Bob Garon (who is gay and married) having a direct conversation with Romney about gay rights in a New Hampshire diner, I want to see every single Republican candidate sit down with Garon and answer his question face-to-face: “You do not feel that everyone is entitled to their Constitutional rights?” Because th…

The New York Times Sunday Review has a Mormon Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…n Indian nations in the Church’s earliest years. LDS missionary efforts in Hawaii and the South Pacific followed soon after. (Today, between 20 and 30% of the nations of Tonga and Samoa are LDS.) People of Asian, Asian Pacific, Latin American, and indigenous American descent have never been restricted from ordination, a fact Siegel blithely ignores. Church membership in the U.S. is still predominately white, a reflection of the ethnicity of the re…

What’s Wrong with the Controversial Businessweek “Mormon Money” Cover?

By Joanna Brooks

…hopping mall, own stock in Burger King and open a Polynesian theme park in Hawaii that shall be largely exempt from the frustrations of tax…” The profoundly irreverent tone of the cover illustration is totally out of joint with Winter’s story, which offers a generally balanced and straightforward assessment of LDS Church finances and enterprises. Winter depicts LDS Church-owned enterprises as extensive, diverse, competitive, professionally managed…

A Buddhist and a Hindu Walk into the Congress…

By Joanna Piacenza

…emocrat Tulsi Gabbard became the first Hindu in Congress—both representing Hawaii. These women have been credited with bringing religious pluralism to our elected leadership; currently, 85% of Congress is Catholic or Protestant. But then again, according to Pew, roughly 75% of Americans self-identify with those two denominations, while Buddhism grabs 0.7% and Hinduism 0.4%. So as groundbreaking as it is that we have two minority religions represen…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…a lawmakers sat through pleas to keep aid in dying legal in their state, a number of local television stations had their regular programming hacked. A ticker scrolled across the top of KRTV’s broadcast of The Steve Wilkos Show in all caps, like an emergency weather alert. A dark and distorted voice announced: Authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. Do not attempt to…