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However Dull or Ham-Fisted, TV is not Oppressing Mormons — In Fact, We Have a Duty to Scrutinize Religious Institutions That Endanger Vulnerable People

By Megan Goodwin

…a Reiss, a senior columnist for Religion News Service, recently surveyed a number of recent television programs that “present Mormonism in an unflattering light.” The column’s headline claims “Mormons are being oppressed and mocked on TV. We’re not alone.” Let’s review the tape. Mocked? Maybe. If nothing else, Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven certainly made a mockery of my already-scant patience. Oppressed? I don’t think that word means what you…

Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

By Michael J. Altman

…and convicted rapist Warren Jeffs on their compound at Short Creek on the Utah/Arizona border. Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault last week. The hand of St. James made it back to Reading Abbey just in time for St. James Day. A school board in Virginia has removed the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet from its sixth-grade reading lists because they found the book to be anti-Mormon. The Boston Globe reminds us all that…

Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…Glenn Beck’s tea party organization, the 9-12 Project and is a colleague of Florida House Candidate Dan Webster at Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles. DeMint’s money has gone to (among others) Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Joe Miller of Alaska, and Christine O’Donnell of Delaware. You can bet that…

Mormons React to Prop. 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…by paid Yes on 8 strategists, circulated anonymously through LDS Church channels and Mormon networks, and taken by many members as gospel truth? As Laura Compton of Mormons for Marriage reminds us, as long as gay Mormons continue to commit suicide—as three did in Utah this month—there is tremendous need for dialogue, education, mutual respect and civility within the Church. If Judge Walker’s ruling manages to spur increased self-examination and d…

Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?

By Eric C. Miller

…Catholic Church. Religious tensions were not insignificant here. When the Utah Right to Life Committee tried to enlist the LDS Church’s support for a state anti-abortion ballot initiative in 1978, LDS leaders refused to join forces because they believed some of the Catholic leaders had anti-Mormon views. Without the LDS Church’s involvement, the initiative failed even to make it on the ballot. Evangelicals adopted a consistent pro-life position t…

Andrew Sullivan is Right and Wrong on Racism, Romney, and the Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…but certainly Young’s own racism—first fully on record in a speech to the Utah Territorial government in 1852—contributed to the end of black ordinations within the LDS Church. And Young’s racism was always based in biblical narratives of Cain and Ham, as was the racism of many other nineteenth-century white Christians. After the death of Brigham Young, LDS Church leaders debated the origins and rationale behind anti-black priesthood and temple s…

The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring ‘In God We Trust’ Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection

By Andrew L. Seidel

…TX). Several other states had randomly passed such laws in the past, like Utah in the early 90s, while Texas had a permissive display law dating back to the early 2000s. But this recent assault is more explicitly Christian Nationalist and coordinated. State legislators around the country are using this Christian Nationalist playbook to divide the country along religious lines. Because of my role spearheading the report on Christian Nationalism in…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…life. US public opinion hasn’t changed since the fall of Roe; if anything, numbers in support of reproductive rights have risen. Indeed, the issue of abortion rights has remained a losing strategy for the Republican Party since the end of Roe, even in deep-red states. In every major election since, where abortion has been an issue, Republicans have lost. In ballot initiatives and local elections up and down the country—Kansas, Kentucky and Virgini…

Does God Hate Health Care? How About Public Schools? Or Bridges?

By Joanna Brooks

…ialism. As LDS Church president, Grant personally crusaded against FDR—but Utah Mormons voted overwhelmingly for him, four times. During the 1950s and 1960s, LDS Church leader Ezra Taft Benson, a John Birch Society supporter,* led a rightward shift among rank-and-file Mormons from which the LDS Church has never recovered. In 1961, Benson said over the pulpit at a church General Conference, “No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a so…

What Does God Tweet?, AFA Cites Hitler on Gays…

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…nstance the police found themselves dodging gunfire. A death-row inmate in Utah chose to be executed by firing squad last month amidst questions about the peculiar decision. The Salt Lake Tribune recently speculated that the choice was predicated upon the Mormon belief that for a murderer to be forgiven by God he must shed his own blood (literally). In Britain, Roger Bolton suggested that BBC features less religious broadcasting and coverage becau…