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Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…recently. Latter-day Saints are generally among the most politically conservative voters in the U.S., and the church has marshaled both its own and its members’ resources to support conservative political causes. In the 1970s, when I was a teenager, we had church activities where we were required to write letters to our legislators, urging them not to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. (Even at the time, I wondered why legislators would be impressed…

AAA: Like a Good Neighbor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…de of the road with a flat tire, or a broken down car, that help is just a phone call away. It also gives me discounts on lodging and other perks. My partner has a gold card with her name on it as well. The account number on both cards is the same. Years ago, when we signed up for the cards with the venerable roadside assistance company AAA, the woman at the counter smiled sweetly and never blinked an eye when we asked for the “family” plan. We we…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…version of Charlie Hebdo massacre Lithuanian Member of Parliament Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas warned that the Lithuanian Gay League is “playing with fire” that could result in “dead bodies.” According to Pink News, Patackas said, “Because in Lithuania, as in every land which calls itself Christian, not everyone turns the left cheek; there are many, who believe in the principle “an eye for an eye”, i.e., the main cause of what has happened in Paris….

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…racter limit… it’s truncating, ruining the effect!” It’s basically the equivalent of someone standing up in the theater and shouting that the script wasn’t in perfect iambic pentameter. Every few minutes until a bit after 3 p.m., a new tweet arrived. At the start, just under 1,000 people were following. By the end, closer to 2,000. Attendees’ names included the likes of Church-in-the-Garden, Miller Funeral Home, bitterperl, plus lots of regular fo…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…This went on for four years and then suddenly, in 2006, she picked up the phone. We began a relationship that was literally 40 years in the making. Too bad I had already made plans to move to California and once again I would be the prodigal sister. Still we made up for lost time and had a relationship like none I have ever had as an adult. I believe I already mentioned that my second of three grandsons was born on the 22nd of December. We shared…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…the US for work get villainized. “Illegal alien” is one of the most unbelievably pejorative terms you can apply to anyone. Your experience seems to reflect something I’ve found in Mormon politics: there is a contradiction between incredible concern Mormons show for the individual and yet a reticence or even a resistance to thinking about the systematic problems and injustices the put individuals in impossible and even harmful situations. It’s a m…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…ed. They are pointedly not invited to participate in rounds or in patient evaluation sessions. I recall how, as a first-year seminary student doing what is called “supervised ministry” at a New Haven mental health hospital, I was somewhat shocked to see how patients’ behavior was interpreted purely in terms of reactions to their medications, whereas I could see plainly that many of these same patients were responding to the presence or absence of…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…people are both predators and a foreign infiltration that undermines local values. As the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, author of a report on anti-LGBT evangelism in Africa, told RD’s Kathryn Joyce last year: When he goes to Uganda, he’s not known as Scott Lively, but as an American evangelical… The Africans don’t always have the resources to follow their statements so they say: this man of God says this is going on in the world. Or Scott Lively goes to the U…

The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…’ve known for at least 34 years about Trump’s admiration for Hitler, since Vanity Fair’s Marie Brenner reported in 1990 that: Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. “Perhaps,” Brenner speculates presciently, “his possession of Hitler’s speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler’s genius at propaganda.” And…

Will a Video Game Make Sense of Qaddafi’s Death?

By Rachel Wagner

…people to this moment in time. Some players will have seen the shaky cell phone videos of Qaddafi’s discovery now circulating, with all the bumps and blurs you’d expect from someone filming a violent attack close up. The horrifying footage shows the dictator’s last moments, complete with flashes of faces splattered with blood, punctuated with off-screen shouts of “Allahu Akbar,” and revealing glimpses of Qaddafi’s pummeled and resigned visage blu…