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Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ojan horse” of the sexual revolution. At last year’s WCF gathering in Salt Lake City, Okafor denounced “the West” for pressuring African nations to legalize abortion and “yield to sexual orientation and gender identity and what-have-you.” Conservative Catholic and Orthodox church officials and activists find common ground in their opposition to international agreements that support a woman’s right to abortion or legal equality for LGBT people and…

Trump’s Mormon Problem

By Neil J. Young

…, while an early August poll has Clinton with a slight lead. While Trump’s numbers are dropping almost everywhere—a recent poll indicated Clinton has grabbed a four percent lead in Georgia, for example—the Utah numbers invite further investigation. In Slate, historian Max Perry Mueller provided critical insight last week contextualizing Trump’s poor standing among Mormons within the LDS Church’s long history as victims of religious persecution and…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…rector of media for the church’s Missionary Department. Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s Bible is for sale. The one of a kind book carries a $1.5 million price tag and includes unique genealogical notes about the Smith family. A group of American Muslim leaders have made a YouTube video denouncing militancy. And Islamic feminists are staging “pray-ins” at various mosques in protest against the separation of women during…

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

By Joanna Brooks

On Tuesday in Salt Lake City, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solomonese delivered a 150,000-signature petition denouncing Elder Boyd K. Packer’s controversial October 2 General Conference declaring that homosexuality was “impure and unnatural” and may be overcome. At a press conference, Solomonese, who was accompanied by representatives of the American Psychological Association, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons, Equality Utah, and the Ut…

Ann Romney’s Big Love on the Big RNC Stage

By Anthea Butler

…gles. Like it or not, Ann Romney is probably the answer to the recent Salt Lake City Tribune question, “Who is the most visible Mormon woman?” So while Ann Romney framed her comments in a way last night that marriage seemed tough in the beginning, but with a lot of love, I chuckled. She probably had the help of many younger and older LDS women who talked about childrearing, baking, and keeping a household. The LDS Relief Society is a powerful plac…

Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence

By Holly Welker

…s why I was struck by a passage about the reasons for the statement in the Salt Lake Tribune: The piece was not prompted by any contemporary issue, says church spokeswoman Irene Caso, including the ramped-up drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (which the faith opposes). The New Era’s content “is planned a year in advance,” she writes in an email, “so renewed interest in anything is typically coincidental.” The magazine “responds to topics tha…

All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us

By Jay Michaelson

…n “genealogy” centers to research their family histories. I did so in Salt Lake City 25 years ago. Now I know I was providing the names of family members to be posthumously baptized. If my Jewish community is outraged about posthumous baptism, my LGBT community is equally outraged about the Mormons—the folks who once brought us polygamy and the doctrine that black people are cursed by God—suddenly becoming the defenders of family values at the exp…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…Read the words of the churchgoing LDS women who spoke last week at a Salt Lake City vigil against gaybashing. These women don’t have high-ranking positions in LDS institutional life. They don’t make doctrine or policy. Very, very few women in Mormonism actually do. But they speak for an increasing number of everyday Mormons who know that gay people are our relatives. Family. Saints. Us. Are views on homosexuality evolving in Mormonism? You bet, a…

5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video

By Joanna Brooks

…He talks about his role as a local LDS Church leader. He talks about Salt Lake City and Church policy. He talks theology. He talks about ultra-conservative LDS writer Cleon Skousen. He talks about violent end-of-days scenarios with a sureness and vigor some may find unsettling. And whoever has pushed this video out again believes that those elements will turn off non-Mormons, non-Christians, and the non-religious, and will motivate liberals to vo…

What’s Eating Mitt Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…campaign, Peggy Fletcher Stack, an award-winning religion reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, interviewed members of the Mormon congregations (or “wards”) Romney led in Boston. They remembered him, Stack recalls, as a full human being: someone who gave his time generously to church service but had trouble remembering names; he couldn’t tell a joke, but he did attempt a Michael Jackson-style moonwalk. On issues of gender, Romney made some mistakes,…