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How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…dquarters’ inquiries into their activities. On Tuesday, Salon.com’s Justin Elliot selected the most unflattering elements of Romney’s career as bishop to depict the GOP presidential candidate as “an enforcer of the most socially conservative policies of the LDS church.” Salon’s sensationalized story suggests that Mitt Romney was some kind of ecclesiastical Dirty Harry, especially on gender. To put Romney’s record into perspective, it should be sai…

Trump as GOP’s New Televangelist

By Sarah Posner

…idential hopefuls have kissed the rings of the nation’s most high-profile televangelists, groveling for votes from their television studios to their megachurches, the fruits of their insidious demands for their congregants’ money with a promise that God will make them rich in return. Trump, like the televangelists, is a publicity hog with an empathy problem: I’m rich, and you could be too if you weren’t such a loser (or, in the case of the televan…

Gingrich on “Teh Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…es re-creates. And yet there is a substantial amount of people who choose celibacy as a religious vocation or for other reasons. Gingrich is blowing all the right notes on the religious right dog whistle here—building up his anti-abortion and anti-gay credentials—but I’m not sure I’m completely convinced. Perhaps the evidence I have is small, but I think it’s significant. In her recent appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Gingrich’s half-sister C…

The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ering in light of haredi responses to Modern Orthodoxy’s accommodationist religiosity. The modern religious community claims the haredi readings are antiquated. That may be true. But they fail to see the ways in which the Judaism they defend is structurally, albeit not always practically, identical to the Judaism they criticize. Many of the same individuals protesting against the segregationist beliefs of the Beit Shemesh haredim pray in synagogue…

The “Majority Victimhood”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r you’re a B&B, a religious facility renting space or a lunch counter. If religious beliefs are more important than opening your facility to the public then become a private club like the Boy Scouts so you can pick and choose your clients. Of course, that doesn’t deter the religious right from going to ridiculous lengths to claim their “victimhood.” In Maryland, a group of “ex-gays” is insisting that they be included as a “minority” in a pending s…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…from New Hampshire, where, Pew data shows, Romney actually won among evangelicals: 31% of self-identified evangelical Christians voted for Romney, 23% for Rick Santorum, and 21% for Ron Paul. It is also worthy of note that in South Carolina Mitt Romney actually improved his share of self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Morm…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ce. The church insists that it cannot, in good conscience, allow its sincerely-held teachings to be violated on its watch. The elders take a vote and come back with a decision: They’ll be HAPPY to let the church be the polling place, and serve the common good, but only if they can restrict voting to men. Their critics protest: “Women have a right to vote in this country, for heaven’s sake! What is wrong with you people? If you strike this arrangem…

Santorum Spokesperson Confuses “Radical Environmentalism” with “Radical Islamic” Policies with “Theological Secularism”

By Sarah Posner

…give more power to the government. “It’s not questioning the president’s beliefs in Christianity. I’m talking about the belief that man should be in charge of the Earth and have dominion over it and should be good stewards of it. “I’ve repeatedly said that I believe the president is a Christian. He says he is a Christian. But I am talking about his worldview or the way he approaches problems in this country and I think they’re different than how…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…son-based thinking on every conceivable topic of human interest—including religion and religious dogma. As such, conservative Christian teachings are not immune to the academy’s critical attention. But for those who view these teachings as identical with the revealed truth of God, such critical attention will be seen as nothing but hubris; nothing but the vaunting of human pride over God’s word. Learning is, in this view, a spiritual vulnerabili…

Shutting Down the Vatican…Website

By The Editors

…known for attacks on Scientology, decided to send a message to the Catholic Church by shutting down the official Vatican website (still not responding as of this posting). What are the Church’s misdeeds, according to these code crusaders? They go back to the selling of indulgences in the 16th century. And more recently, of course, there’s the Church’s interference in Italy’s domestic politics. (Not just Italy, we’d have to say.) – The Eds. …