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Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…mythologists to be polite (Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, Maine’s Paul LePage, Idaho’s Butch Otter, to name a few, cite “scheduling conflicts,” a politician’s version of “regrets extremely that a previous engagement prevents his accepting”). And others have just said no with no further comment, or didn’t respond to Texas on the Potomac’s inquiries. But here’s Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, according to Texas on the Potomac: “Houston is ‘just not on tr…

Jesus Hates Taxes: Biblical Capitalism Created Fertile Anti-Union Soil

By Peter Montgomery

…ers Live radio show to celebrating a Supreme Court decision that upheld an Idaho law ending state withholding of public employee union political funds. Barton’s co-host Rick Green called for activists to “spark a fire” and encourage other states to take up the effort to disrupt unions’ political activities. Barton called the Supreme Court’s decision “the right historical position and the right biblical position,” and went on to explain why the Bib…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…this group). Most of the others are from Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Idaho, with a remaining smattering of members from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and New Jersey. They of course would deny that there is any racial agenda, but it is the state legislative counterparts of these very same folks who have worked overtime to restrict voting rights, opt out of Medicaid participation under Obamacare, and wreck their states’ workers…

Mormon Leader: Religious Freedom Under Attack by Gay Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…8 supporters to black civil rights activists last year in a speech at BYU-Idaho and decrying deteriorating regard for religion in the public sphere in a speech at the Salt Lake Tabernacle last July, Oaks, a former clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, argued that moral relativism and the declining influence of religion in American life are hastening the legal penalization of religious viewpoints on matters of public policy. One LDS RD r…

Should The Senate Listen To A Court-Martialed Chaplain on DADT?

By Sarah Posner

…e more (like Rusty Thomas of Elijah Ministries, who worked with Fischer in Idaho organizing a conference against “sodomites”), but let me just highlight the crowning touch: one of the signatories includes a former Navy chaplain, Gordon James Klingenschmitt, who was court-martialed for appearing at a partisan political event in uniform. He has issued imprecatory prayers against his political foes; his own DADT petition calls for “defending our troo…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…es in Uganda that welcomes LGBT people. During his four-day stop in Boise, Idaho, Kiyimba told RD, “I think [Yiga] was among the people who were outed in the newspaper.” Earlier, just hours after his plane touched down in Boise on November 1, Kiyimba learned that Rolling Stone had just published a second round of names under the headline: “More Homos’ Faces Exposed.” Identities were published despite a court injunction, filed days earlier, prevent…

Rehabilitating McCarthy: Doug Phillips’ Festival Award

By Julie Ingersoll

…ination, and even bigotry, against sexual minorities. Controversial former Idaho legislator Curtis Bowers received the $101,000 award for the film that developed from an essay he wrote as a result of what he claimed was his 1992 covert infiltration of a communist party meeting. His 2008 essay called feminism, environmentalism and gays rights evidence of the advance of communism. In what Doug Phillips, not so humbly, called the “greatest acceptance…

Immigration and Anti-Immigration in the Book of Mormon-Belt

By Joanna Brooks

…had come from as far away as England to build an American Zion in Utah and Idaho. As an adult, I have reclaimed the holiday. My daughters and I have a new set of calico pioneer bonnets. (Mine is hot pink.) And every year I invite non-Mormon friends over for a Pioneer Day dinner, to share in the recounting of stories from our pioneer family history over a dinner of Mormon ethnic cuisine: funeral potatoes, frog-eye salad, iceberg lettuce with ranch…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…n was enacted in Nebraska in 2010, and four more states — Kansas, Indiana, Idaho, and Oklahoma — enacted one this year. The question, then, for the 2012 GOP hopefuls is whether they support these even more radical measures, including elimination of family planning funding, 20-week abortion bans with functionally no exceptions, laws requiring women visit religiously-motivated crisis pregnancy centers before they can obtain an abortion, and the elim…

LDS Apostle Says Same-Sex Attraction Can be Overcome

By Joanna Brooks

…e, robust religious tradition that includes Elder Packer, broad-shouldered Idaho farmboy missionaries, lip-pierced Tongan-American teenagers, Latinas in pantsuits, and LGBT Mormons and their allies. And it is a religion struggling over whether or not the experiences, concerns, and needs of LGBT people will find a place in the hearts of Church leaders and members. I sure hope they do. Mormon LGBT allies responded almost immediately to the Sunday mo…