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Conviction of FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Overturned

By Joanna Brooks

…ction with other Mormon fundamentalists and polygamists in the larger Utah-Arizona community of Short Creek, as well as with the movement of a select number of FLDS members to the faith’s remote compound in Eldorado, Texas. Jeffs will stand a new trial in Utah scheduled to begin on August 23, and he faces extradition to Texas. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is also being pressured to review state rape statutes to better deal with the situati…

Mexico’s Own Satanic Panic

By Joseph Laycock

…anez, 10, was reported missing from the town of Nacozari, Mexico, near the Arizona border. Investigators discovered an altar to Santa Muerte and forensics revealed traces of blood spread over thirty square meters around the altar. On March 28, authorities searched the home of Silvia Meraz, whose house had already been under surveillance for suspected prostitution. Inside, they found the body of the missing child buried under the floorboards in the…

‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

By Catherine Wessinger

…children have gotten sick and nine have been hospitalized. The initial telephoned allegations of abuse of a 16-year-old girl at the YFZ ranch married to an older man now appear to have come from a mentally ill young woman who was never a member of a FLDS community. Texas authorities do not seem to be cognizant that the removal of 263 children from the FLDS community at Short Creek, Arizona, in 1953 ultimately resulted in the return of most of the…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…the Fox channels seem focused on Louisiana, similar laws exist in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Brandon Reed, a MAGA politician who readily manipulates religion for political gain, sponsored the Arkansas law. Reed also sponsored a bill that created “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students” and his campaign video includ…

Glenn Beck’s History “Professor” David Barton On Racism and the Three-Fifths Rule

By Julie Ingersoll

…of Kebreau’s principal points; I heard it at a Tea Party rally supporting Arizona’s immigration law in June, and I heard it from a Jacksonville Tea Party representative on my local public radio station the morning I wrote this. But it’s neither historically accurate nor proof of what Barton and Beck maintain: that the founders, who they consider to be the true godfathers of conservatism, were anti-slavery and intended that the Constitution to ref…

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

By Holly Welker

…utside world, not all Mormon polygamists are so xenophobic. Straddling the Arizona-Utah border, in an area of breathtaking beauty and almost no potable water, are the interlocking towns of Hildale and Colorado City. The polygamists there who rejected Warren Jeffs in the 1980s reorganized under the name Centennial Park. The Centennial Park Action Committee, or CPAC, is made up of dynamic, vibrant women dedicated to decriminalizing polygamy: think B…

Will House “Freedom” Group’s Core Racism Go Unchallenged?

By Peter Laarman

…’m counting Texas and Oklahoma in this group). Most of the others are from Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Idaho, with a remaining smattering of members from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and New Jersey. They of course would deny that there is any racial agenda, but it is the state legislative counterparts of these very same folks who have worked overtime to restrict voting rights, opt out of Medicaid participation under Obamacare…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…Develop Character,” and Promoting Fatherhood (Crisis in Manhood),” were outnumbered by those analyzing opposition tactics like, “Threats to Life and Family in International Law,” “The Homosexual Lobby,” “The Natural Family and the Revolution against the Family,” and counter-strategic sessions like “How to Fight Back against International Law,” or “How to Impact Public Policies and Elections.” 2012 marked the first time the WCF devoted an entire da…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…eria is a role model. “Aggravated Homosexuality” A nonprofit organization, Arizona-based FWI is affiliated with the World Congress of Families, an Illinois think tank which conducts international conferences to promote their vision for “the natural family”—“the fundamental social unit, inscribed in human nature, and centered around the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage.” Most of the conferences are outside the…

Express? It’s the Straight Talk Script

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ments of his “moral“ beliefs. And the audience ate it up. The Senator from Arizona is a man of character, whatever that means, and a man of principle—most of the time. But his recent decision to utilize attack ads, and his willingness to kow-tow to an evangelical script runs the very real risk of derailing the very thing that had made his candidacy viable to begin with: his maverick status and his straight talk. The more he begins to sound and to…