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Touch Me, Man, I’m Healed, I’m Straight

By Ted Cox

…researchers called a “successful heterosexual shift,” and that they “viewed themselves as heterosexual and denied distress with regard to periodic experiences of same-sex desire.” Of those eight with successful heterosexual shift, seven provided ex-gay counseling themselves; four of those eight were paid to do so. So, are these successfully straightened men more likely to practice ex-gay therapy? Or are these formerly-gay paid therapists just more…

Bachmann’s Law School Mentor Asserts Biblical Roots of American Political System

By Julie Ingersoll

…d a belabored discussion of what a church can and cannot do within the guidelines of the IRS rules. He cited the part of the code that prohibits influencing legislation and labeled it “legalese,” before a lengthy parsing of what counts as legislation and then what counts as influencing— none of which substantially departed from everyday understanding of those terms. The talk sounded much like the “word study” sermon style found in many fundamental…

What Makes Mormons Weird?

By Joanna Brooks

…r otherworldly. And that’s why we all heaved a sigh of relief when David Axelrod came on television to threaten to fire any campaign staff who used the word “weird” to describe Romney. Still, regardless of the Obama campaign pledge not to play dog-whistle politics with Romney’s religion, the question remains for many Mormons: what makes us so “weird” to the rest of the American public? It’s a subject that Mormons will have to face and learn to eng…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…hat “schizophrenic” as my professional identity is divided between the Israeli field of research (that also made me adopt my name, Shokeid, years ago) and the more recent involvement with the LGBT field that started with my work on CBST. However, I am ready to pay the price—becoming somewhat marginal in both professional circles. In the more recent edition of the book, you note that there is a “growing interest in issues of homosexuality, spiritu…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…th shallow understandings of their own traditions—to say nothing of anyone else’s religion. Meanwhile, some of the spiritual students (though certainly not all) are those who work the hardest to figure out what they can believe in or sign on for, while still maintaining a sense of personal integrity. Outside of my professional life, the issue for me (as I presume for anyone out there who is still reading) is also quite personal, because I cannot c…

Queer Repentance: On Not Surrendering to a Text, to Guilt, or to Habit

By Jay Michaelson

…social construct, and the feeling of truth may be merely the feeling of a belief held for a long time. If you’re raised not to eat pork, the simple act of eating can induce a feeling of guilt “deep down,” even if one has long ago ceased to keep kosher. Guilt has nothing to do with substantive merit—as gay people know all too well. The emotive response of guilt remains long after the mind, heart, and spirit have all reconciled themselves to the rea…

The Sad Saga of a Compromised Rabbi

By Shaul Magid

…a way to stay in the news. For academics such as myself, it is a way to feel relevant when most days we teach a small cadre of wonderful undergraduate and graduate students and toil away at scholarship that few people will ever read. But for all of us, one hopes, there is integrity in the process. We passionately believe what we write and we are simultaneously committed to literary etiquette and ethics. Unfortunately, sometimes the vitriol gets o…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…t’s notice that the financial crisis and “Wall Street” itself are also in self-delusion. Generally, Wall Street apologists insist that boom and bust cycles are inevitable—all circle. In fact, however, the latest bust was made far, far worse by the unreasonable amounts of risk which banks and other financial institutions were allowed to take on, because of deregulation. That deregulation was the result of concerted effort—line. Wall Street says it’…

Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

…s of the embryo and fetus and there is broad agreement on what is called “delayed ensoulment.” That was code for saying that the fetus does not attain to personal status until it is well formed. Early miscarriages could not be named or given religious funerals. Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas held that the early fetus had the moral status of a plant, and that not even God could infuse a spiritual, person-making soul until the fetus was develop…

How Many Ways to be Mormon and Gay?

By Joanna Brooks

…ese paths entail profound risks, costs, and consequences. All require a level of conscious deliberation on matters of sexuality and spirituality that heterosexual Mormons take for granted. Saturday, Wilcox will convene a panel of representatives from three different organizations that serve LGBT/SGA Mormons to explore different approaches to LDS homosexuality: Affirmation, the nation’s oldest organization of gay Mormons, North Star and Family Fell…