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Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…Glee” hypothesis. A more suggestive hypothesis: the way religion played in California’s Prop. 8 galvanized a significant and strategic religious effort on the pro-queer side. Pollster/strategy consultant Amy Simon went before large numbers of liberal Christian leaders in battleground states to say, in effect, “Please don’t duck what your own religion has to say about this. Try behaving like Jesus for once.” And Simon was only one of many out there…

Episcopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote

By Elizabeth Drescher

…succeed from the Church, following the Dioceses of San Joaquin in central California; Fort Worth, Texas; Quincy, Illinois; and Pittsburgh, PA. A pastoral letter from Jefferts Schori to members of the Diocese, however, made clear that The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, as with other dioceses voting to secede, “continues to be a constituent part of The Episcopal Church, even if a number of its leaders have departed.” Steps have been taken to…

Reparative Therapy is Quackery, Rabbis Agree—But that Doesn’t Mean it’s Okay to Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…e second major blow against “reparative therapy” this year—the first being California’s banning of it entirely. What went unnoticed outside the Orthodox world, however, were two very different statements on Judaism and homosexuality. First, the Rabbinical Council of America (the umbrella organization of Orthodox rabbis) fully withdrew their support of JONAH, claiming, in fact, that they’d never supported it to begin with. This step strongly sugges…

The Other Mormon Candidate

By Anthea Butler

…o “stop talking about being Mormon.” He also gets a lot of questions about California’s Proposition 8. For him, it is easier to talk about these subjects as a political candidate than as a person of faith. His rationale is that by telling something about being LDS, it helps him on the campaign trail because it is very much a part of the Western story, especially in Wyoming, where Mormons trekked through on the way to what would become Utah. Henric…

Rick Warren, Is That All the Courage You Can Muster?

By Ross Murray

…ust make a statement or two in support of the people and then head back to California. He rolled up his sleeves, he rallied his supporters, and he got to work, helping the people of Uganda and Africa. Yes, Rick Warren is correct in tweeting that he had already voiced his opposition to the “Kill the Gays Bill” in 2009; that they still find the legislation “abhorrent.” That may be true, but remember that his recent comment that being gay is like h…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…n. I went to BYU and tried very hard to fit in like the kids from Arizona, California, and Utah. I dyed my hair blonde. I joined the Young Republicans. I went to Cleon Skousen lectures. And I wanted to get married, go to Washington, and work in the State Department. At the very last moment, with no boyfriend to talk me out of graduation, my professors talked me into applying to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, and I got a scholar…

Will Catholic Voters Support LGBT Rights in Washington State?

By Joanna Brooks

…ndum 74 has an edge among Washington voters. Then again, four years ago in California, polls predicted Proposition 8 was headed for defeat. I spoke today with Kathy Morefield, one of the founders of Washington Catholics for Marriage Equality, to get a sense for the role of faith in the campaign. What’s the feeling on the ground like in Washington right now? I think we are feeling pretty hopeful, but it’s so hard to tell what will happen. I just he…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…ee the absence of black people from our de facto segregated Orange County, California suburb. The ban on black ordination was lifted in 1978 (I was seven years old), to the profound relief of the vast majority of Mormons. But racist folklore and rationale for the ban continued to circulate long after it ended, and only in the last year has the pressure of the presidential election pushed Church leaders to make slightly more definitive statements t…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…mall. In his introduction to Sufism for Non-Sufis?, University of Southern California Professor Sherman Jackson notes that we cannot separate Islam from who most Muslims are: Colonized persons, or their recent descendants. Hence their Islam, and much of Islam today, is the product of a cycle of violence and subjugation. Most Muslims are used to and even expect to be discriminated against; they are not used to being heard. Rather than consider Isla…

Forget Debates and Dialogue about LGBT Justice, the Religious Right isn’t Listening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Lynchburg newspaper, so they decided to cut their losses and move back to California. White spoke recently with Religion Dispatches about the release of his newest book, Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality, and the ongoing battle between the religious right and the LGBT community. ______ Candace Chellew-Hodge: You start your book with a litany of religious right characters who have either laid the groundwork for th…