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How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…y the Christian Reconstructionist group Vision Forum. While serving in the Idaho state legislature in 2008, Bowers gained national attention after he wrote a column, “Communist agenda makes its way to our mainstream.” In it, he argued that feminists want to have the government raise their children, environmentalists are out to destroy business, and that “the homosexual movement” would “extinguish” our “heritage of religion and morality.” His film…

Odd Comments by Michigan Football Coach Reveal Who Anti-Abortion Christians Think They’re Defending

By Karen E. Park

…al person who must give birth. Last weekend, to name just one example, the Idaho Republican party voted against adopting an amendment that would have allowed abortion exceptions to save the life of the mother. If the battle is between who matters more, the embryo or its host, a full-grown human person (or at least a ten-year-old), that’s one ethical conversation. But what if for Harbaugh and others it isn’t only about developing embryos and fetuse…

When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…: one for Southern Virginia, one for Western New York, and another for the Idaho panhandle—border regions intended to draw the maximum number of attendees. Election, medical, and vaccine conspiracists, along with insurrection veterans like Flynn, Eric Trump, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Roger Stone grab most of the media attention. But a disturbing religious dimension has received far less attention; that is, until November, when Flynn blurted…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…with others who believed in plural marriage. The effort was successful in Idaho and was upheld by the Supreme Court in Davis v. Beason. Moreover, LDS missionary efforts were resisted by law and by mobs in various sites of the nation at the turn of the century. European immigration by Mormon converts was enjoined, as well. Arguably, this was over more than the illegality of plural marriage. But LDS lawlessness in this one matter was always availab…

A Libertarian Split Over the Hitching Post Case

By Sarah Posner

A Coeur d’Alene, Idaho couple, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, are the new cause celebre of the Christian right, symbols of a supposedly strong-arm government forcing religious opponents of marriage equality to participate in and sanction same-sex weddings. But the zeal with which the Knapps’ lawyers are pursuing their case has led some valuable religious right allies on religious exemptions to raise questions about the case: libertarians. By way of bac…

Your Pseudoscience Beach Read: Creationist Infighting Edition

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…trouble fundraising for its next project, the Ark Encounter. The folks in Idaho might have better luck pursuing a smaller-scale strategy. There are in fact dozens of “creation museums” around the country, as Michael Schulson chronicled in Killing the Buddha last year. Some of them, he notes, are in the back of people’s homes. In this economy, could be a good way to cut costs. Why, you may well ask, am I offering these science-deniers advice? I sa…

“The Lord’s Standard of Morality” Promotes LDS Rape Culture

By Holly Welker

…he Lord’s Standard of Morality,” Elder Tad R. Callister’s 2013 talk at BYU-Idaho reprinted in the March issue of the Ensign, I read it and sighed heavily. Callister boldly claims that his talk encapsulates God’s word and “trumps all the opinions” on sex and morality, including those of “psychologists, counselors, politicians, friends, parents, or would-be moralists of the day.” To recap: sex is allowed only within heterosexual marriage; masturbati…

Why We’ve Opened Our Doors for Polygamy USA

By Claude Cawley

…the LDS Church, which renounced polygamy at the end of the 19th century, a number of independent groups have since broken from the Church over various doctrinal differences—including plural marriage. Polygamy, USA, which debuted on the National Geographic Channel earlier this month [Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT], follows the fundamentalist Mormons of Centennial Park, Arizona, population 1,500. The following commentary from Centennial Park spiritual le…

Goy to the World: What Does Hanukkah Have to Teach Us About Living in Empire?

By Garret Keizer

…another war in Afghanistan gearing up, and a war with Iran, Korea, or the Idaho panhandle always an option, the holiday’s anti-imperial theme can be unsettling to say the least. Celebrating Hanukkah as an American Jew must feel a bit like celebrating Guy Fawkes Night as an English Jesuit: Putting yourself in the story hardly puts you at ease. Christmas has some of the same anti-imperial subtext—Julian the Apostate’s sad one-liner, “Pale Galilean,…

Sacrificing Children on the Altar of Religious Freedom: A Flood of Mask and Vaccine Lawsuits are Warping ‘Religious Freedom’

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e killing children right now. In The Founding Myth I tell of cemeteries in Idaho filled with children born to a mother and father who consider themselves “Followers of Christ,” a sect with an infant mortality rate ten times higher than the rest of the state. While not new, the exemptions from criminal law that protect the parents who pray their children to death in lieu of seeking medical care date to the 1970s. In 1972, the Supreme Court decided…