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Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…t and encourage fellow members who wish to follow Church doctrine. Their struggle is our struggle. Those in the Church who are attracted to someone of the same sex but stay faithful to the Church’s teachings can be happy during this life and perform meaningful service in the Church. They can enjoy full fellowship with other Church members, including attending and serving in temples, and ultimately receive all the blessings afforded to those who li…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…s of TV have simply never found the March for Life to be the slightest bit newsworthy. But despite the dubious newsworthiness of an event that’s been happening for nearly 45 years and attracts a respectable, but hardly earthshattering crowd, the mainstream media dutifully reports every year on the march and airs the claims of the anti-abortion movement that its true scope and support is routinely ignored, despite polling that consistently shows a…

Why Darwin Keeps Coming Back

By Peter Manseau

…rought. As in Dover, Inherit the Wind put Darwin in the headlines, but the news wasn’t about his theory. It was about something greater. Three decades earlier, in summer of 1925, Darwin was a focus of the Monkey Trial itself, the context of which is actually more telling than the content. Four years prior to the stock market crash, the United States was already in the midst of what the historian Robert Handy once called the “American Religious Dep…

Its the Spiritual Economy, Stupid: Why the Gay Marriage Fracas Isn’t About Either

By Nick Street

…f American life. According to an analysis of polling data published by CBS News, Americans are becoming more “gay friendly” at a rate of about one percent a year. Still, that means that only 45 percent of California voters are likely to vote against an amendment to the state constitution and in favor of gay marriage—based on the fact that 37 percent of Californians who participated in the 2000 ballot initiative to ban gay marriage voted against th…

‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch

By Chrissy Stroop

…that just about anything Christians do “faces an immediate host of unconstructive and ungracious criticism, nitpicking and mockery.” And this backlash doesn’t come “only from the world (which should be expected),” Pinkston goes on, employing a catchall term that authoritarian Christians routinely use to encompass everything and everyone that exists outside of authoritarian Christianity, including liberal and progressive Christians. “The world,” f…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…orters’ violent White Supremacist tantrum at the Capitol. Thinking of the TrumperTantrum as White Supremacist isn’t to claim that all people there were overt White Supremacists in their beliefs. Presumably many were not, even if they happily marched among Confederate flags or horrific “Camp Auschwitz” and “6MWE” (i.e. 6 million wasn’t enough) shirts. As Adam Serwer explains, the storming of Congress and the lies that incited it were themselves an…

Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

By Katherine Stewart

…“no logical difference in kind” between a religious group—such as The Good News Club, an after-school program of religious instruction for children that spends much of its time praying, singing hymns, and learning the evangelical gospel—and a soccer team. The same logic was applied in a set of rulings that, at least for a time, required that New York City schools opened to the community after-hours should make themselves available as rent-free hou…

By the Way: Religious Right Losing its Grip?

By Randall Balmer

…t’s not every day that universities produce news that has an impact on the world of religion. But recent dispatches coming out of the University of Notre Dame and from Regent University, Pat Robertson’s school in Virginia, certainly fit into that category and may be a harbinger of changing attitudes and shifting political winds. From Virginia Beach, Virginia, comes word that a student organization called Regent Democrats has been granted official…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…n as it reinforces heteropatriarchal relations that reiterate fascist desire and the religious conviction that they are meant to rule over the nation and world….

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…n a tour of the Gulf region from Louisiana to Florida, he was shocked and frustrated by what he saw as a passivity in people. All along the coast, they seemed less interested in fighting and more interested in getting in one last fishing excursion or trip to the beach. Or one more chance to dance together. He spoke with Dardar and other tribal leaders about trying to convince people to present a united community working together to develop a plan…