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Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…s for the deportation of Muslims. Indeed several Democratic governors have offered the excuse that they have hosted or are planning their own days of prayer (Minnesota’s Mark Dayton, New Hampshire’s John Lynch, and Washington’s Christin Gregoire), because official praying events now appear to be a prerequisite for high office. Still, though, Perry’s very short gubernatorial guest list is a sign of his event’s, uh, shall we say politely, problemati…

Bachmann’s Former Church says Papacy is Antichrist;
Will it Matter?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ll of cinematic melodrama and special effects. Here is what WELS believes: 1. There are “anti-Christian powers” that do not necessarily attach to a particular individual or office. These are bad, but they’re not demons-that-eat-people bad or laser-eye-beams bad. Pride, for example, would be an anti-Christian power. 2. Scripture speaks of the Antichrist as a particular individual embodiment of these powers, so if you believe in the literal inerra…

Sister Wives Stars File Suit to Legalize Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…ream LDS Church publicly disavowed the practice of polygamy in this life in 1890, but it has never officially disavowed the doctrine that plural marriage is required to enter the highest levels of heaven. Mainstream LDS men who are widowed and remarry continue to be “sealed” or married for the eternities to multiple wives, while mainstream LDS women may not be married or “sealed” for the eternities to more than one man. To this day, mainstream LDS…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…fter launching ORU’s law school, and later helping with Regent University’s 1986 takeover and launch of a public policy program, Titus ran on Constitution Party founder Howard Phillips’ presidential ticket in 1996. The stated goal of the Constitution Party “is to restore American jurisprudence to its biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.” That includes, for example, “affirm[ing] the rights of st…

“A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ited the Bible’s warning against times when everyone would just ignore the official rules and instead go around making stuff up to suit the realities of their own situations. Here he is, in the New York Times Magazine article, quoted at an appearance in Iowa: “And we had a few people who didn’t see the world like we do. We had a professor who said: ‘Bob Vander Plaats should explore truth for Bob Vander Plaats. And Mary for Mary and Susan for Susa…

Fox News Needs to Get a Grip on its Affiliate’s Issues with Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…nessee, about .7% of the population. Mormons left the state en masse in the 1880s due to anti-Mormon violence.) “Can you name the candidate who is running for president who believes that if he is a good person, he will get his own planet?” Ferguson goaded. Five or six Memphis citizens shake their heads, chuckling, rolling their eyes. One woman darts from the camera. “It’s not Mitt Romney is it?” asks a man in a blue shirt with a ponytail. “It is…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…being an atheist city councilman in a state that still requires government officials to believe in “Almighty God.” And if Shuler can fend off a primary challenge, he may still lose the support of his right flank to a newly-drawn district that’s even more conservative than before. The incumbent’s primary challenger, Cecil Bothwell, actually prefers the term “non-theist” to “atheist.” “I know that some atheists feel that stance ducks the issue and t…

What’s the Role of LDS Church Leaders when it comes to Politics?

By Joanna Brooks

…esture—a preemptive strike, perhaps—against charges that the LDS Church is officially involved in the campaigns of either Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman Jr. To truly get the significance of the statement it helps to understand a little about how the extensive worldwide leadership of the Church is constituted. The LDS Church has an all-lay priesthood—no trained clergy. Just about everyone who attends Church regularly has a “calling,” an officially def…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…d between atheists and religious communities. Of course, there are still a number of people who are, if not entirely resistant to the ideas in the book, at least deeply suspicious about or don’t see much value in them. One thing I find valuable about Faitheist is that it moves atheism away from the kind of polemic that ends up focusing on truth claims in a very literal way and so mirrors the religious fundamentalisms it would like to dismantle. A…

Right Wingers Say “Gay” is Out, But Try Putting “Unnatural Vice” On a Bumper Sticker

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…eny minority of people may take away their right to tell gays and lesbians that God will send them to hell for all eternity — out of love, mind you. But, then again, anti-gay Evangelicals have a right to be afraid. After all, researchers say the actual number of Evangelicals may well be “as small as 7 percent of the total adult population.” Which means Evangelicals know just how effective a small number of people can be at taking away the rights o…