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Call Centers and… Congregational Email Lists

By Joanna Brooks

…atter-day Saint. And some Romney supporters are using congregational email lists—which, fairness should note, get mobilized without authorization in the service of all sorts of purposes, including multilevel marketing schemes. A reader somewhere in the Beehive State sent me the following message received via congregational email list: Subject: Women for Mitt Join Together Dear fellow Utah women! During the week of our Pioneer Days celebration, I…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…ts image gallery of screen shots from the now-deleted Daily Beast comments list) is enough to make it a plausible theory. A False Equivalence Anti-abortion propagandists have since backed away from the Mason smear campaign, perhaps because the facts don’t add up. Still, a correction has yet to be issued by any of the involved parties and the damage has been done. One Colorado Senator leapt to condemn the ugly tactics of intimidation by “opponents…

I Booed Romney For Jesus

By Anthea Butler

…a hard time recounting a litany of things he had done, Biden went down the list of what the NAACP did for him as a young kid, as well as what the president has accomplished with the Affordable Care Act, and trying to stave off the effects of the 2008 financial crash. Most importantly, Biden reminded the NAACP that one of the big battles of the civil rights movement—voter suppression—is the business of the Republican Party today. What separates Vic…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…r the names on the application there are some very Persianate names on the list, so it may be that the Turks are simply a proxy for another group.) This lack of clarity furthers the point that ICANN needs to have a policy of regulating the use of religions’ names—it should not be easy and trivial for someone to claim internet ownership over a religion. There should be a compelling, clear case made, and at best, I can see it only affecting specific…

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…e call for signature gatherers that went out over one congregation’s email list. But even without formal LDS Church involvement in Maryland, you feel compelled to take a more political stance than the Salt Lake City marchers. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail said, “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Many good me…

Why are Romney SuperPac Donors Shy?

By Joanna Brooks

…a multilevel marketing cosmetics company. NPR remarked on the “Go down the list of people who have given a million dollars to a superPAC, and you realize many of them are not shy about their wealth.” But not so for this particular Romney donor. Why? Wealth means status in the world of Mormonism, as it does just about everywhere else. But Mormon culture and church tradition emphasize privacy and even anonymity in giving. There are no “named giving…

Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book

By Mary E. Hunt

…ated, and demeaned. That the Vatican places masturbation at the top of its list highlights its perverted priorities in a deeply troubled world. It is impossible to imagine the discourse as the men took under their scholarly consideration Margaret’s understated, but nonetheless robust, affirmation of women finding “great good in self-pleasuring… something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands…

Conservative Christian Anti-Abortion Hero is Neither Christian nor Anti-Abortion

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ervative groups, including National Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List, continue to use Chen’s struggle against forced abortions in China to further pro-life politics in the U.S. Unfortunately, Chen’s own political statements aren’t really giving them much to work with. First, conservative media critic Terry Mattingly hailed Chen as a Christian pro-lifer, and accused mainstream media coverage of missing the “faith angle”—until it was poin…

Killing Love in North Carolina

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y sex, for some odd reason. So, we’re subjected to the prattling on of moralists who call gay and lesbian people perverts — so because of our perversion we should not be allowed to sign a legal contract between ourselves and our government — free from the meddling of any church body or religious believer. The fundamental unfairness is underscored by one blogger who wrote: ” … married couples don’t have to be saints to get all the state based benef…

Pamela Geller Bars Muslims from “Human Rights” Conference

By Sarah Posner

…urity detail barred them from entering, telling Baddar he’s on a “no-enter list”; the police later are summoned to escort the perfectly calm and peaceful Muslims out of the hotel. (AAI’s event, in contrast, was open to the public and required no registration or fee.) The whole video is worth watching to understand the paranoid lengths Geller’s staff engages in to avoid having actual Muslims attend her conference. And what kind of person does atten…