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By The Way: Gay Marriage in Iowa, not California?

By Randall Balmer

…rents, an interracial couple, had emigrated across the Missouri River from Nebraska to Iowa in order to be married in 1958. But he seems not to have appreciated the full extent of Iowa’s progressivism. It was to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, an abolitionist Congregational minister, that Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune, issued his famous advice, “Go West, young man, go West!” Grinnell heeded that advice and headed to Iowa, where he becam…

Week in Religion, Sunday Edition

By Michael J. Altman

…called Aqua Buddha, smoking pot, and kidnapping a female swim teammate. In Nebraska, police arrested a man roaming naked in search of “a religious experience.” I hope he finds it. The mosque used by the plotters of the 9/11 attack has been closed down in Hamburg, Germany. Muslims in Britain held al-Hidayah 2010, a three-day anti-terrorism camp for young people. A New Jersey school district will observe Eid al-Fitr, the day marking the end of the m…

A Pair of Courts Issue Revolutionary Rulings on LGBT Equality: One Scathing, One Beautiful

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ond his preliminary orbit. Meanwhile, as Mark Joseph Stern points out, the Nebraska Supreme Court’s rejection of the state’s ban on gay foster parents didn’t mince words. Referring to a memo on the state Department of Health and Human Services website declaring that foster parenting was for “heterosexuals only,” Justice John Wright wrote that “It is legally indistinguishable from a sign reading ‘Whites Only’ on the hiring-office door.” Debate will…

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…nd demonstrating how it contradicts the Christian life and message.” The Armor of Light opens in theaters in 20 cities on Friday. Tickets are free for NRA members….

Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground

By E. David Morgen

…e springing from the grass roots upward. No one breaks down barricades for tickets, abandons cars by the side of the highway, or creates spontaneous parades. Like the other events of the festival circuit (Lollapalooza, Coachella, Austin City Limits), Bonnaroo is a top-down affair staged by skilled, professional producers. In 2007, the festival revenues reportedly topped $17 million, making it the highest-grossing event of its kind in the world. Ye…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…erendum petition were invalid, the petitioners no longer had the requisite number of signatures to place the referendum on the ballot. The subpoenas, served on pastors who are not litigants in the lawsuit, seek a broad range of documents and communications, including sermons, regarding their statements on homosexuality, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), and the petition process. Represented by the religious right legal firm Alliance Defen…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…can’t find any job; among younger males, especially African-Americans, the number is much higher—in many areas one in two workers is without work. Yet Congress, with a Democratic majority, can’t get it together to extend unemployment benefits. Our solons just flew out of town for a weeklong holiday vacation. Republicans, joined by Democratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “deficit neutral” and come out of unspent stimulus money. But…

The Trouble With Francis: Three Things That Worry Me

By Mary E. Hunt

…dinals. But on closer inspection, it is clear that women ought not to book tickets to Rome just yet. Juxtaposing “valued” and “clericalized” is odd at best, pernicious at worst. In a church in which ordained male clergy have jurisdiction— that is, authority to make decisions about things that matter—to claim that women who cannot be ordained are valued is a hard case to make. Valued for what and how? We have heard from Francis all about women’s su…

McChurch Picks Up Progressive Endorsements

By Katie Meier

…ine is an event co-sponsor—no small potatoes considering the mainstream cachet of Jim Wallis, the founder /editor of Sojourners and author of the chart burner, God’s Politics. And McLaren has friends outside the faith box too. The Sierra Club is signed up. You tell me the last time people paid for tickets to a preacher-meets-politico-meets-tree-hugger event. Observing, then, the McLaren-brand machine gurgling and chirping right along, a fair quest…

Romney to Talk Mormonism Tonight: Risky?

By Sarah Posner

…Back from my Bloggingheads hiatus, I talk with Get Religion’s Mollie Hemingway about whether Mitt Romney’s plan to discuss his Mormonism tonight at the Republican National Convention benefit his candidacy: And we also discussed the significance of the fact that Barack Obama is the only Protestant on both presidential tickets: …