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LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…-year-old Mormon women and 22- and 23-year-old Mormon men peers in the LDS dating pool, an unevenness that may have shaped LDS marriage dynamics as well. Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women’s Project, said, “This is about creating a future culture of equal scripture scholarship, increased opportunities for cooperative leadership in platonic settings, and reducing the stigma of unmarried women on the BYU campus. I have three daughters. I no…

Why We Can’t Wait for a Majority to Grant Marriage Equality

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…her two years before Bob Jones repealed its own prohibition on interracial dating. The courts were wise back then, realizing that the true immorality was allowing a majority vote on the rights of a minority. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — who vetoed a marriage equality bill there — might reflect on these historical facts and figures. That way he won’t be surprised when history remembers him as one of the backward thinking obstructionists who sto…

Mainline Protestantism a Shambles? Tell Us Something We Haven’t Heard

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…tions go, this one’s a bigger deal than using contraception or not kissing dating goodbye. You say you don’t agree? You wouldn’t worship in one of our big, expensive-to-heat, inconveniently-located churches if someone paid you? Well, okay. That’s your prerogative. Goodbye, then, and go in peace! If you would, please be sure to shut the door firmly on the way out, since it’s February and our boiler is 80 years old. I mean, really. Did you critics e…

October “Baby” is a Grown Woman

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…er lifelong friend Jason (Jason Burkey), a standup guy who is inexplicably dating a one-dimensional and horrid woman named Alanna (Colleen Trusler). Hannah and Jason set out for Alabama where Hannah was born. (They chastely maintain separate sleeping arrangements, in case you were concerned.) Time and again, Hannah is assisted by kindly men who are won over by her beauty and vulnerability: a hotel clerk, a priest, and law enforcement. Oh, goodness…

Call Me Pesach

By Peter Manseau

…andre, meanwhile, is Yiddish for “panther,” a reference to the allegations dating to the second century that the father of Jesus was neither God, nor Joseph the carpenter, but a plundering Roman soldier called Pantera (Latin for “panther”). This nickname was further elaborated by taking the first part of Pandre as the honorific Pan (“Sir”), then adding a letter to the second syllable to form drek (“excrement”), applying to Jesus Christ a name roug…

Quiverfull Mom Stands By Trans Partner

By Katie Toth

…omeschooled in the Quiverfull movement, and married her spouse before even dating—they’d only had a brief, parent-supervised courtship. After years of marriage, Reyenga says, her husband at the time finally told her that he was transgender and identified as a woman. Instead of urging him back into the closet, she told him to be the person he wanted to be. This wasn’t received too well by their faith community. Reyenga says that their church eventu…

Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

By Anthea Butler

…t she lives her life as a Christian consistently, even citing her celibate dating relationship. If you wonder why the issue of same-sex marriage is so freighted for African Americans, it is not simply because of their biblical beliefs. It is a deep historical narrative. Many enslaved African Americans were not allowed to marry, and after the Civil War, searched desperately to find their partners. Those who were lucky, married. Weddings were seen a…

Dear Gay Kid

By Peter Montgomery

…oyalty, and happiness as a gay person. It doesn’t mean you won’t also find dating frustration and heartbreak, just like anyone else. But be true to yourself, seek friends who share your values, and you can find deep, meaningful, lasting relationships—and the love of a lifetime. I know—I have. And, if it is important to you, you can find Christian churches that will welcome you as a child of God, will celebrate your gifts, and will bless your relat…

Romney, Tisha B’Av, and LDS Temples

By Sarah Posner

…ont in an LDS temple “rests on the backs of 12 oxen, following a tradition dating back to the Temple of Solomon that is described in the Old Testament. The oxen represent the 12 tribes of ancient Israel.” In explaining why Latter-Day Saints build temples, the LDS website further notes: When Jesus Christ was on the earth, the only existing temple was known as the Temple of Herod. Jesus was often found in this temple (see, for example, Luke 2:40-49;…

LifeSite Complains that Local Boy Scout Chapter is Not Homophobic Enough

By Katie Toth

…own about the Council’s divergence from national policy earlier. While LifeSite repeatedly emails the Boy Scouts to confirm how homophobic they are really, the 2.8 million-strong youth organization is dealing with much more serious issues. An LA Times exposé just revealed the group’s ineffective and insular response to allegations of child abuse within their ranks from 1970 to 1991: A Los Angeles Times review of more than 1,200 files dating from 1…