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High School Senior Leads Effort to Repeal Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…nstitution in Louisiana have an uphill battle. Only three members of the House voted against the original law. State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, has announced that she will sponsor the repeal legislation. Kopplin’s web site repealcreationism.com provides more information about the campaign. So far, Louisiana is the only state to take the bait, but similar anti-evolution bills have been submitted in Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma…

“How the Mormons Make Money” Speaks Volumes About Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…to its members who are “not provided with any financial accounting” of the use of their donations. Current LDS Church worth is estimated at $40 billion, with an estimated $8 billion in tithing receipts annually. LDS Church for-profit holdings include media, hospitality, and insurance companies; malls, office parks, residential real estate, and tourist resorts; and citrus, sod, timber, and cattle operations in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Mexico,…

Vatican Idol?

By Kate Childs Graham

…sin called “excessive wealth” for right now.) If you are rushing to Amazon.com to purchase this musical wonder, don’t be surprised if you can’t find it. While it is on sale today in Italy and Mexico, it won’t go worldwide until January. However, surely in the coming weeks, you will be able to have it shipped overseas just in time for the holidays….

Yes We Can/Si Se Puede: Remembering and Forgetting Cesar Chavez (March 31, 1927—April 23, 1993)

By Luis Leon

…andidate had proposed that Chavez’s birthday become a national holiday—a cause supported by millions: His cause lives on. As farm workers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago. And we should honor him for what he’s taught us about making America a stronger, more just, and more prosperous nation. That’s why I support the call to make C…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…ineffable and invisible, it is neither ineffable nor invisible itself” because the filmmaker “uses precise temporal means—camera angles, dialogue, editing—for predetermined transcendental ends.” And Beasts is a transcendental film. As I sat in New Orleans’ Prytania Theater for a weekday matinee surrounded by dozens of retirees and a handful of college students, I was in the Bathtub; I observed the world through a child’s eyes; I witnessed a hurric…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…le pieces of the Eucharist that have been vomited unless it will further cause him to vomit. Still, provision is made for wine or bread that cannot be consumed, either because it will make the priest vomit or poison him. This leftover holy matter is absorbed or dissolved in a different substance (holy water, a cloth), which is then washed down the sacrarium of the church (after being burned if possible). If wine falls on the altar cloth, a garment…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…on the floor beside him while he watches TV, a situation made possible because his mother, desperate to avoid her fourteenth pregnancy and forbidden like all women at the Crick to use birth control or deny her husband sex, finally flees Joe’s father. Clear-eyed about the cost of leaving the Crick, Joe says, “A lot of kids think that, ‘OK, we’re leaving’”—which entails the psychological pain of condemning themselves to hell, because even though the…

Harry Jackson Fundraises for Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…asking him to give us deliverance from the president that’s in the White House today for four years.” Jackson’s workshop was billed as the “Vertical Vote Campaign for Life, Marriage and Religious Liberties.” The “vertical” title echoes language used by Jackson ally Samuel Rodriguez, who insists that evangelicals have to vote their vertical (God-oriented) values. Events on the seven-state tour are officially called “The Defense of Marriage Summit:…

Immigration Reform According to Ralph Reed’s Bible

By Peter Montgomery

…. Other measures should include funds for enhanced security along the U.S.-Mexico border. Modernizing the visa system to track those who overstay visas and fully implementing an E-Verify system to verify workers’ identities will further enhance security. As politicians seek to solve the thorny problem of U.S. immigration policy, they should sit down with the faith community and perhaps open their Bibles. Well, if politicians are looking to scriptu…