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New Resource for LDS Families with Gay Children Links Acceptance and Health

By Joanna Brooks

…s do or do not permit them to participate in family activities, or to even talk about their orientation, or to bring their partners home. What does science have to contribute to this conversation? All of the studies I’ve conducted assume that family and faith can be strengths for LGBT people. But we have also seen how families motivated to give kids a better life sort through a range of individual perspectives and experiences trying to figure out…

Occupy’s Sacred Mob and the Politics of Vagrancy

By Vincent Gonzalez

…sleep in their tents, four more are drinking coffee and holding watch. We talk to drunks as they pass by; sometimes we find allegiance that may or may not be remembered in the morning, and sometimes we just bore potential attackers into docility by inviting them to explain their politics. Tent-kickers are rarely brave enough to kick a person, and “Get a job!” is easily answered by “I have two, but unemployment in North Carolina is over ten percen…

Homophobia an “Atrocity,” LDS Bishop Tells Gay Mormon Conference

By Joanna Brooks

…to hear his side of the story. (A full transcript of Bishop Kloosterman’s talk is available here.) How did you come to be involved in the Circling the Wagons event? Over the last year, I was feeling promptings from the Spirit to learn more about LGBT issues. I’ve never had to deal with that issue with myself, in my immediate family, in my extended family, or as a bishop. I have no close friends at all who are gay or lesbian. I really just felt th…

Bill Nye Gets Religulous with Bill Maher

By Michael Schulson

…s life to improving scientific literacy in the United States, so helping a talk show host heap scorn on significant segments of the American populous is unlikely to further his goals. Honestly, it’s not rocket science. When you’re on a talk show and your interlocutor says something provocative and extremely dumb, look stern. Don’t nod and smile. Unfortunately Nye does just that when Maher explains, “…religion is the enemy of science. People say we…

Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

By Haroon Moghul

…ng for Jesus to invade my heart. My plan was to report from the inside, to talk to the attendees as one among devoted thousands (though probably not revealing my religious background, unless I had to and knew where the exits were). I’d observe firsthand what goes on at a gathering like this. I’d try to understand how such Christians understand Islam. Lou Engle’s world is alien from my New England roots and New York life. I’d attended churches befo…

How a Group of Catholic Pacifists Took on the Nuclear State

By Eric C. Miller

…ists to decry nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists are there precisely to talk about what they’ve done. But the courtroom is also a highly regulated space. Almost always, the rules of the courtroom prevent Plowshares defendants from speaking freely about nuclear weapons and about their motivations. As much as they are an immediate hindrance, though, the limits placed on Plowshares defendants enable them to present an alternate conception of justi…

Time to Get Rid of “Gay Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to talk about giving up what we “cling to,” nine times out of ten they are talking about homosexuality—as if those who remain gay or lesbian after encountering Christ are just as pitiful as those hoarders on TV who can’t let go of one piece of trash without having a psychologist on standby to talk them down. Again, though, even amidst the subtle rhetoric, I find myself agreeing with Goeke. Christ does call us away from “clinging” to things of this…

The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source

By Sophie Bjork-James

It seems that all the Right wants to talk about these days is “grooming.” These accusations became popular recently in Florida with Republicans pushing for a law equating books about LGBT families with pedophiles grooming children. Governor Ron DeSantis’s press secretary, Christina Pushaw, made this explicit, tweeting: “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill.” (The bill…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…n agendas. The problem is that people mean very different things when they talk about supporting a US foreign policy that is more attentive to religion. First, people sometimes mean that the US should promote religious freedom, a principle enshrined in US law by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, a seemingly unassailable but in fact intensely problematic legislation that has put the US on record as supporting religious freedom—someti…

Quantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness

By Beatrice Marovich

…the divine, isn’t entangled with other forms of knowledge? I think if God-talk simply drops out of sophisticated discourse and is just replaced by a wide range of philosophical, spiritual, poetical metaphors that avoid the Abrahamisms of the past, what’s left behind is simply our consciousness of who we are. That is, if we shift into atheism in the name of being in the know, we’re actually shifting into an unknowing ignorance. We’ve been comprise…