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Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…ice to their lobbying efforts against some of the most conservative public officials. Minerva’s episcopal position lends credibility to her progressive insistence that each child be cared for regardless of legal status. Whether preaching in one of her churches or discussing specific cases with Lou Dobbs, she insists that immigration is not about “partisan politics” but of “lifting up a matter of conscience for this country, a moral and ethical iss…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…reover, 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 available to legitimize widespread legal and popular discrimination. This seems an essential distinction between the two groups; at least insofar…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…count the great unchurched free radicals of the 19th and 20th centuries as official Protestants, there is no doubt at all that, unofficially, that is just what many were: not just the towering Lincoln but also such figures as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Emily Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry George, the James brothers (no, not those James boys: I mean Henry and William), Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce,…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…ly flyer Hughes was passing out.) As I discuss in the piece, there was one official and explicitly Islamophobic panel at the conference, the essential premise of which was that shari’ah law is coming to America, beware, beware! The panel included former CIA director James Woolsey, activist-scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and National Review contributor Andrew McCarthy — whose book, How Obama Embraces Islam’s Shari’ah Agenda, was peddled in CPAC’s exhibit…

Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?

By Susannah Heschel

…l, frequently receiving support from bishops, popes, and emperors. Yet the official declarations exonerating Jews from blood libel were often ignored and ritual murder accusations were brought against Jews by priests or laypeople seeking to stir up Christian passions against their Jewish neighbors. Blood libel cases spread eastward into Poland and Lithuania in the early modern period, and into the Middle East, Greece, Russia, Hungary, and the Otto…

Prop. 8 Ruling Delayed By Standing Questions

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…es the state Supreme Court an opportunity to clearly reaffirm the right of official proponents to legally defend voter-passed initiatives they successfully enact, particularly when public officials abdicate their constitutional duties by refusing to enforce and defend the law.” But Jennifer C. Pizer, National Marriage Project Director for Lambda Legal, contends that state law does not empower activists to bring a lawsuit in support of ballot measu…

Pope Francis: Culture Warriors Out, “Collaboration and Consultation” In

By Patricia Miller

…rge raised the prospect of a future where “those who do not conform to the official religion” of approval of “all types of sexual relationships” that were once considered sinful will be driven from public life: It means that those who choose to live by the Catholic faith will not be welcomed as political candidates to national office, will not sit on editorial boards of major newspapers, will not be at home on most university faculties, will not h…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…čs of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Riga said in an interview with LifeSite News that gay relationships are “destroying our human identity.” Church of England: Conservative Group Abandons Discussion on Same-Sex Couples A conservative group within the Church of England, Reform, pulled out of conversations on the church’s treatment of same-sex couples because they said it was premised on finding a compromise position . The group’s chairman said,…

Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…fter journalists focused on Romney’s campaign revealed the extent to which officially sanctioned racist theology persisted at Church-owned Brigham Young University—did the LDS Church issue an official acknowledgment that past or present racism was condemnable. To this day, even in a recently-released historical essay comparable to the Joseph Smith polygamy statement, the LDS Church has still not fully acknowledged that it was wrong to exclude fait…

The Tea Party: Not Just For Racists Anymore

By Daniel Schultz

…I know that last line is going to cause some people to squawk. It’s not an official position, so what’s the problem? The problem, dear readers, is that when enough members of your group get behind racist or homophobic positions, it tends to indicate that the group might be, you know, bigoted. Along the same lines, the bit about conservative Christians being “attacked” when people notice that they are sometimes not very nice to gays and lesbians is…