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Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…or feelings.” 3. Removes the instruction that Church leaders should refer members to professional counseling. This is especially significant because in times past leaders were encouraged to refer members to practitioners of reparative therapy such as Evergreen International. Reparative therapy has been discredited by scientists and professionals and, in some instances—including the electroshock aversion therapy prescribed by BYU-affiliated practi…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…AP), Georgetown University. [72] Code of Virginia, Article 8, Unlawful Paramilitary Activity. [73] John Sharp and Robert Hiss, “Re: Private Paramilitary Activity in Bedford County,” June 16, 2020. See, for example, the letter sent to Bedford County’s County Administrator Robert Hiss. [74] Santiago Melli-Huber, “Militia Members at Lynchburg Protest May Have Broken the Law, Legal Expert Says,” WFXR, July 1, 2020; Franklin County Board of Supervisors…

A Startling Number Believe You Can Be Jewish Jesus Follower; Why It’s Not As Crazy As It Sounds

By Michael Schulson

…that number seems staggeringly high. A full third? Once you delve into the numbers, though, 34% doesn’t seem quite so high. Really, Pew has asked an excellent question—a question that reveals the full tangle of ambiguities and inconsistencies that surround the topic of Jewish identity. First, some background: when the researchers at Pew set out to conduct this survey, they quickly ran into a problem that’s been under discussion for at least two th…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mediate, thorough and impartial investigations into the killings of active members of different LGBTI human rights organisations” (par 5). Furthermore, the parliament “emphasises the need to strengthen protection against discrimination and hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.” Intergroup co-president Ulrike Lunacek connected threats to LGBT people to a larger climate of violence: “Speaking out on LGBTI rights and bei…

Is Romney’s Foreign Policy Problem a Product of his Mormonism?

By Joanna Brooks

…ould recommend Governor Romney read just a few essays before the next foreign policy crisis strikes, what would they be? The LDS Church First Presidency 1942 statement on war is extremely articulate, but it ends up saying that while the LDS Church is against the war, individual members should go to war. I would recommend Eugene England’s collection Making Peace. Hugh Nibley has a lot to say in Approaching Zion. And of course, there is Spencer W. K…

The Kidnapping of Nigerian Girls, A Primer

By Gordon Haber

…dicated to strict Islamic education. But in 2009, it became openly violent—members bombed churches, attacked military installations and police stations, killed tourists and Muslims who disagreed with their tactics. It does not have historic ties with Al Qaeda but in recent years has employed Al Qaeda-type tactics, using improvised explosive devices, car bombs, and assassination to sow terror in Nigeria. The group has gunned down churchgoers, attac…

The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…sed no real danger, rather than a former MP and judge, along with (former) members of the German military and its special forces unit. Despite the fact that the conspirators had planned to attack the power grid to create “civil war like scenes,” established a communications structure, and had even planned to storm the German parliament to kidnap and kill MPs, Tichy, echoing conspiracy theories, claimed that it was actually the government’s reactio…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…get a bill far larger than you expected. (In that case, wars are like cell phones.) We have a right to know just how much can be spent on uncertain military objectives, and it would be nice to know whether that much money could be spent, without consulting Congress, on the betterment of the condition of the American people. The roads around my apartment need repair. Can we get NATO to send some army engineers in? New York City also desperately nee…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…effort to maintain, are they a law unto themselves.” Ultra-Orthodox in the Military It was only in the 1990s that the possibility of army enlistment opened up to those Haredi young men who wished to stay in the ultra-Orthodox fold and yet wanted do military service. A special unit, the Nahal Haredi, drew some enlistees. Some of the Haredi Rabbis supported this idea, as in that unit the men would not be open to the “pernicious outside influences” o…

Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…the holiest site in Judaism]. On the other hand, although in much smaller numbers, there are Jews who regard the very presence of the mosques as an obstacle to the redemption of the people of Israel. A larger number hold a Kahanist worldview, according to which—irrespective of the conflict with the Palestinians—the Jewish state should cast out the Arab minority from within. Some of them are willing to try to implement this goal in a violent way o…