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Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…onships will not only be preserved in the hereafter, but are the means by which one achieves exaltation. By marrying and procreating, human beings can become like God, who is also married and who is literally our spiritual father in heaven: with his many wives, he not only created but procreated the spirit of every person born physically onto this Earth. Proving oneself worthy of the right to do the same thing in another corner of the universe is,…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…zation he helped found, while “the ideas of immortality burned brightly within him, the living of it often eluded him.”At its height in the mid-1990s, Brown’s foundation was bringing in more than $1 million annually, his mailing list had 30,000 names. Today the ore group in Scottsdale, Az. has about 130 people endeavoring to live up to Brown’s teaching to “shrug off”their “old deathist ways”and accept immortality into their DNA. John-Roger Hinkins…

Francis Visits the Church that John Paul Broke

By Patricia Miller

…clear just how politically alienated they are from the church’s US leadership. While former Catholics have a relatively favorable view of Pope Francis, with nearly 60 percent saying he understands their needs and priorities, just 35 percent feel that way about the US bishops—which is 25 points less than practicing Catholics. It’s clear that the decades-long campaign by the US bishops to make abortion the number one issue for Catholics, and their…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…ontrol pamphlet Family Limitation). Readers can probably anticipate where this history lesson is going. Since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the right to abortion guaranteed in Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, red states have been rushing to criminalize most, if not all, access to abortion. At least 14 states have banned (or are in the process of banning) mifepristone, the abortion pill, and to prevent women from receiving it…

Refusing the Monsters on Maple Street: A First-Person Commentary from the Mass Hysteria at JFK

By Marion Grau

…erve. A black woman wearing a security vest crouched outside on the tarmac hiding, behind a luggage container, sobbing uncontrollably. Why was I the only one reaching out to her? I tapped her on her shoulder and said “Give me a hug.” She clung to me for a long while, before I let her go. What I remember most from growing up during the Cold War in West Germany is how it felt to have “No Future” because the US and Russia had overwhelming arsenals of…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ust humble ourselves before this sublime work. But for now I will not rest, I will not sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight, until I hear the end of this violation. And neither should you, for it is the abomination that brings desolation. The final reckoning will not register which airline company boasted the most freshly painted fleet or ranked last in customer satisfaction. But there are some sacred goods of such high ideal as we instead are ca…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…me I was divorced and my son, Muhammad was only six years old, living with his dad while I was away. My father was deceased and all the other living males in my family were not Muslim. There was no office I could do to secure what was demanded of me, so the day for my flight came and went and the ticket never got used. During that year, a woman read my tea leaves after supper with some of my new friends. If you don’t know how that works, first I d…

Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…ife. Gingrich first claimed that there’s no super PAC coordination between him and his “friend” Adelson, and then emphasized that Adelson’s “passion in life is the survival of Israel.” He and Adelson are in agreement, Gingrich said, “that Iran is a deep, immediate threat posing the risk of a second Holocaust.” The audience reacted with an emotional “yes.” Gingrich may not be their Esther, but he certainly knows how to eclipse the concern over the…

The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

By Kaya Oakes

…ter. When the Deadheads came to Berkeley, they camped in the parking lot behind my high school, and when they came to Oakland, they camped behind my mother’s office in the Oakland Public Schools building. A special series on religion and culture produced in collaboration with the Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California Like a lot of Bay Area Gen X kids, many of my friends’ parents were of the original generation Deadheads…

Marriage Remains on Hold for California Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hts said of the ruling: “It is decidedly unjust and unreasonable to expect California’s gay and lesbian couples to put their lives on hold and suffer daily discrimination as second-class citizens while their US District Court victory comes to its final conclusion.” The National Organization for Marriage, forgetting that real human beings are affected by such a ruling, showed its usual class with an “in your face” to attorneys Ted Olson and David B…