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Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…ng them so people don’t need abortions, and/or smuggling the drugs in from Mexico and Canada. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches. We’d see what kind of legal trouble one could get into because the drugs would be given away and are legal in Mexico and Canada. This kind of civil action, I don’t even know if it’s civil disobed…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…mmigration in the United States, the tension between the United States and Mexico. One reason people are coming here is that with industrial farming in Mexico, the water sources are increasingly drying up and people are moving farther and farther north, trying to get access to good water. That’s going to be a continuing flashpoint. It doesn’t have a lot to do with the fact that immigrants want refrigerators and nice suburban homes. It has to do wi…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…f the December 8 announcement, Tipps says, the shrine saw an unprecedented number of people. Visitors from as far away as New Mexico wandered onto the grounds, with several walking into the Tipps’ home assuming it was a visitor center. The shrine rented a port-a-john in order to have enough bathroom space, but it was quickly blown over by winter winds. Asked if she is happy about the developments, Tipps laughs. “We’re kind of being a little bit se…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Blade’s Michael Lavers, who reports that attendees included activists from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 sta…

Obama Foe Wants His MTV

By Bill Berkowitz

…ding ‘a state-of-the-art border security fence’ along the US boundary with Mexico.” The ad showed the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and claimed that “illegal immigration from Mexico provides easy cover for terrorists,” FactCheck.org reported. Let Freedom Ring spent $100,000 on air time for the ad which was seen nationally on CNN and Fox News. In 2001, Hanna also gained some national attention by refusing to remove a plaque of the Ten Comma…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…was a founding father of the states we now call Utah, California, and New Mexico. He also stole horses by the thousands from the California missions and enslaved hundreds of Paiute Indians, whom he sold at slave auctions in New Mexico and Utah. Wakara was a great and terrible man. But we know little about him. And what we know comes from the archive of his exploits—often called “Indian depredations”—recorded and stored in the colonial archive. Wa…

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…’re about to be kicked out again.” Eat Oysters While You Can Meanwhile, in Mexico Beach, Florida, at the tiny Regent’s restaurant, patrons lined up at the bar ordering Apalachicola oysters. As Great Britain played the United States in the World Cup on the television overhead, people ate quietly, reverently. Each oyster a sacrament. Apachicola is famous for its oysters, which are sweet and briny and taste of the Gulf’s clear water and of life’s ear…

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

By Joanna Brooks

…oiling the Mormon West. After all, the place we now call Utah was actually Mexico when Brigham Young and the original band of pioneers arrived. Which means our beloved Mormon pioneers were probably illegal immigrants too. The immigration debate has brought out some real ugliness in the Book of Mormon-belt, including the nationally-publicized release of a watchlist of 1300 alleged illegal immigrants in Utah composed by an anonymous vigilante group….

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…repeal the infamous bracero program which imported exploited laborers from Mexico leading to the law’s 1965 expiration and he traveled to Mexico for a meeting with politicians to discuss improving working conditions for Mexican workers. in 1973 the UFW was one of the first unions to oppose the federal law making it illegal for employers to hire undocumented workers. Chavez’s goal was to undo hatred, writ large on the American landscape; for this,…

Indulgences Are Back At Last!

By Kate Childs Graham

The Sixth World Meeting of Families will be held this week in Mexico City. The meeting, with the theme of “The family, teacher of human and Christian values,” organized by the pontifical council of the family, will bring together clergy and lay people from over 90 countries. The following message from Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the pontifical council for the family, reveals the tenor of the conference: The family today must confront,…