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Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…esentment. My description sounded jumbled alongside the clear and familiar official message: no, we do not practice polygamy, not at all. I felt self-conscious and incoherent and nervous about publicly contradicting Church PR officials, but also determined not to obscure the more complicated and difficult truth. When we deny those truths, their private emotional costs multiply. Then came the second hour of programming. Our audience in this second…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

…rs studying Serra’s writings, which reflect his love for the natives. That official line on Serra was denounced as a “fraud” by Antonio Gonzales, Director and United Nations Liaison for American Indian Movement West. Another speaker called the Church’s claims about Serra “a blatant fabrication.” The activists have essentially been ignored by the church. Gonzales read a statement by Valentin Lopzez, chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band recountin…

Why is Liberty Institute Still Defending Phillip Monk?

By Rob Shryock

…the claim that this evidence is “totally at odds with the Air Force’s new official explanation” willfully misleading. From the beginning, the Air Force claimed they moved up Monk’s redeployment when his replacement arrived early, making Monk’s continued presence in his old unit unnecessary and redundant, whereas he was needed in his new unit. Monk has, to the best of my knowledge, not responded to this charge. It’s apparent here just how weak The…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…here is plenty of encouragement for that “low-intensity” domestic jihad in official legislation in countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran, where exclusive theologies accompany the dominant political ideologies. Sometimes, the two are inseparable — sharing a common enemy, pluralism. Of late, Indonesia and Malaysia have flirted with such behavior. This trend is hardly confined to Muslim-majority societies. Buddhist Myanmar and Sri Lanka, Hin…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ive Constitution… Kenya: Human rights report say mob violence meets little official response PEMA Kenya and Human Rights Watch released a report this week saying that mobs in Kenya’s coastal region “have repeatedly attacked people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity” and that official response has been inadequate at best. “President Kenyatta recently described gay rights in Kenya as a ‘non-issue,’” said Lorna Dias, executive coor…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecade, as gay marriage has been legally recognized in many states, a small number of scholars have claimed that kids of same-sex parents are exposed to more potential harms than kids of straight parents. This, in turn, has been used to argue against gay adoption and marriage. But just because some studies support this finding doesn’t mean it’s true. In fact, many, many more studies reached opposite conclusions. “Research … has developed a scholarl…

No Bible-as-State-Book for Tennessee as Legislators Suffer “Symbol Fatigue”

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…souri, where I grew up, residents of the show-me state felt they needed an official state wonder dog. (Specifically, Jim the Wonder Dog, who was not from Missouri but evidently baffled some important Missouri psychologists in the 1930s.) Oh, and you may have heard that there was an effort to get the Bible named as the state book of Tennessee. The Tennessee bill that would make the Good Book into the state book is dead, for now. Although it was pas…

United Methodists Elect 1st Gay Bishop; Canadian Anglicans OK Same-Sex Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…y nationwide. Among the principles and goals spelled out on the group’s website is this quote from actor and activist Felipe Nájera: “When human rights can only be exercised by some few people, you cannot call them human rights, these are called privileges.” [English translation by Google] Juan Alberto Vazquez writes in Milenio.com that the number of cities in Mexico holding pride celebrations is booming, but that visibility and progress go hand-i…

The New Ground Zero on LGBT Rights and Religion

By Sarah Posner

…views that would never be tolerated for a moment if expressed by a public official. Cochran’s defenders are trying to blur the line between his right to hold private views and his duties as a public official, to make his private beliefs, publicly expressed, absolutely protected regardless of their context or impact. It’s that line — not the right to marry, or the right to speak, or the right to practice religion — between the private and the work…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ays Ministry’s Bondings 2.0 blog: Archbishop Kevin Farrell, the pope’s top official on marriage and family issues, criticized US bishops for not engaging on the recent apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia and specificially “rebuked Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia and other bishops who have released pastoral guidelines on the exhortation, without broader consultation.” Meanwhile, conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke has threatened Pope Fr…