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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…a’s auto-da-fé came not only in the comments section, but in nasty emails, phone calls, and demands for his firing from Messiah College. As he discovered, the culture wars are real, and practiced even on those (like Fea) who largely have been critical of Obama’s actual implementation of his promises about faith-based policies. More important than these blogosphere wars, however, is understanding something deeper about these screeds about Obama as…

Pennsylvania Rep. Says Contraception Mandate Is Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r thing to… do whatever Rep. Kelly thinks he’s doing. I give up. Here, have a video about Basenjis freaking out when a phone rings:…

Who’s Accusing Who of Mormon-Baiting?

By Joanna Brooks

…t Coke and a dozen pink-frosted sugar cookies that there is no anti-Mormon phonebanking script in use by Catholics for Obama. Anywhere. Is anti-Mormonism real? Yes. But even if one poorly-trained rogue phonebanker veered off script into an anti-Mormon ad lib, it does not make for a concerted anti-Mormon effort. (Leave that to orthographically challenged “Heaven is Easy” ministry in Florida.) May cool heads prevail as the race heats up in its fina…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…se of disrupting traffic”—despite being under house arrest at the time. According to Amnesty International, Chen is a prisoner of conscience who has been jailed solely for peacefully defending human rights. After serving his full sentence, Chen was placed under house arrest in September 2010. On April 22, with the help of allies, Chen scaled a high wall and escaped. He arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on April 26 and remained there until May…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…ans and 50 percent of the general population identified as “pro-life”; the number of Americans who identified as “pro-choice” hit a record low. But respondents’ opinions on policy issues around abortion had not drastically changed from previous years. Just over half of Americans think abortion should be “legal under certain” circumstances, only 2 percent more people than last year. Meanwhile, 25 percent of Americans (compared to 27 percent in 2011…

High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…flood story. There had to be a big flood, and someone had to survive to record it, or we wouldn’t know about it at all! The real insights are in the differences between the flood stories. Whether they are describing something like a dam breaking, or water coming from the sea in Tahiti, or a tsunami. There were missionaries in the Pacific who were confused because the native flood stories did not say anything about “rain” as the Bible described Noa…

Maryland Governor says Support for Marriage Equality “Very Much Informed” by his Catholicism

By Peter Montgomery

…ce at winning, given the state’s Democratic leanings and promising polling numbers. O’Malley said that expansive religious freedom language in the law was important to its passage and in keeping with the traditions of the state of Maryland. The referendum language makes clear that the law protects clergy from having to perform any ceremony that violates their beliefs, guarantees each faith control over its marriage doctrine, and “provides that rel…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…e (as Valdemiro Santiago, miracle curer and head of Brazil’s World Church of God’s Power, proclaims himself), I momentarily implored God for a miracle for my mother, who six months ago survived the latest in a harrowing series of medical ordeals. With that little bit of prayerful business out of the way, I turned from the ecstatic mob of Santiago-rushing crentes and walked down the darkened block, gripping my scuffed iPhone and returning to my rea…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…e,” says Dortsch. “She was sobbing and saying, ‘Thank you so much.’” Adam Ford of Alpine, Utah marched in his Sunday best with his sons Parley and Willard, who are named for historic LDS Church leaders Parley P. Pratt and Willard Richards. “I saw about a dozen people openly weeping as they watched us walk by. One body builder guy in a tight tank top heaved with sobs,” said Ford. “I walked over and hugged him.” Clair Barrus witnessed the tears of p…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…t a sense of how Romney would govern is to look at Mitt Romney’s actual record. And the best way to get a sense of what Mormon doctrine really is and what it might mean to Romney’s presidency is to ask actual experts. Experts—Mormon and non-Mormon scholars of Mormon experience—do exist. If I wanted to get a decent sense of how Mormons relate to law and politics, I might check in with Professors Sally Gordon, Nate Oman, Phil Barlow, or Patrick Maso…