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Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…een working feverishly to finish their projects but had put off purchasing tickets were left out in the cold. It was a different scene in 1997 when I first came to Burning Man and only waited briefly at the entrance as a “Greeter” cast a cursory glance at my car. But the Greeters’ enthusiastic reception remained the same. These Greeters, a dusty naked couple, asked me to get out of my car and embraced me, shouting “Welcome Home!” I had crossed the…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…land started getting legally married—joining those in Washington state and Maine, where voters had also given a thumbs-up in a remarkable set of November election victories. Pro-equality activists are working to build on those victories with legislative campaigns in Illinois, Minnesota, and several other states to win marriage equality this year. And of course the Supreme Court will be hearing cases on Prop. 8 and DOMA in March, with decisions in…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…he Church on the sidelines in 2012 marriage equality contests in Maryland, Maine, and Minnesota. But it’s likely that a pragmatic regard for the numbers also had something to do with it. Mormons make up less than 1% of the population of the states of Maryland, Maine, and Minnesota. In California, home to Proposition 8, LDS people constitute 2 – 3% of the state’s population. In Hawaii, 70,000 Mormons comprise 5% of the state’s population. Mormon-m…

Campaigns of Omission

By Sarah Posner

…ormal. In another sign the culture wars aren’t over, anti-gay activists in Maine successfully overturned a state law legalizing gay marriage. Some LGBT rights activists are angry that Obama, reprising his refusal to take a position in the Proposition 8 campaign in California last year, didn’t weigh in on Maine’s referendum, which repealed a law passed in the state legislature and signed by the governor. You can pretend the culture wars are over, a…

Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

…12, Republicans attempted to smear Colleen Lachowicz, a social worker from Maine running for state senate as a Democrat, by informing voters that she played the online computer game “World of Warcraft.” The website colleensworld.com declared, “Maine needs a state senator that lives in the real world, not in Colleen’s fantasy world.” As in this latest instance, statements made “in character” were presented out of context. In any case, the strateg…

Your Money or Your Civil Rights? Gays Vote GOP

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nst their own interests though came from a caller named Ralph in Portland, Maine. Ralph’s main concern was over rampant government spending, and he blames the Democrats for having an “open checkbook.” Slate’s James Ledbetter, speaking to that pervasive claim, shows why everyone in the voting public needs an education, not just gays tempted to vote Republican: If you really think that the problem with the economy and/or the federal budget is as sim…

The Most Important Religious Category of the Primaries, the Non-Religious, Doesn’t Break Down as Cleanly as You Think

By Daniel Schultz

…th the young voters who did show up, but the youth vote continues to be outnumbered by older voter turnout across the country. Even that might be somewhat generous. As USA Today notes, Sanders won a smaller share of the under-thirty demographic than he did in 2016 in several states. It’s worth noting this shift in a religion-and-politics column because young voters also tend to be less religious voters. By any measure, the younger an American adul…

An Art of Flesh and Blood: Remembering Disability Activist Rev. Rick Curry

By Gregory Mozgala

…sted in a life in the arts. Rev. Curry, who I met in the summer of 2000 in Maine, when I participated in a two-week summer intensive course hosted by the NTWH, became a role model, a mentor and a source of hope and inspiration to me at a very formative time in my life. After my time there, I worked with the NTWH as an administrator for a year, during which I saw the work of NTWH—and Rev. Curry—change lives. I can remember, during one of my first n…

Will Voters Approve Marriage Equality?

By Sarah Posner

…On the latest bloggingheads, The American Prospect’s E.J. Graff and I discuss whether polling showing 52% support for Maryland’s marriage equality ballot question will hold on election day: We also discussed the marriage referenda in Maine and Washington, and why Graff thinks the three-year campaign by marriage equality advocates in Maine will pay off. You can watch the whole thing here….

Anti-Gay Marriage NOM Documents Reveal Racial Wedge Strategy and More

By Peter Montgomery

…nal NOM planning and fundraising documents from 2009 – gathered as part of Maine’s investigation of the group’s campaign finance practices – were released yesterday afternoon. HRC posted them online. For those who follow NOM, the documents aren’t particularly surprising, as we have witnessed their plans being put into operation over the past few years. But there is still something remarkable about seeing their strategies – including racial wedge p…