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Makers of Depopulation Doc Have a Past

By Kathryn Joyce

…ast depopulation because women have stopped having enough children. As the number of women in the workforce has soared, many have delayed marriage and childbearing, or decided against them altogether. The Sexual Revolution, by making sex readily available without marriage, removed what for many men had been a powerful motive to marry. Skyrocketing rates of divorce have made women less likely to have as many children as in generations past. Years o…

The Week in Religion, Poetically:

By Michael J. Altman

…of Westboro Baptist Church and frequent protester at military funerals. In Utah, an appeals court ruled that crosses memorializing the deaths of 14 state troopers were an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.Gainesville officials have denied a Florida church a permit for its planned Quran burning. Need a little more junk in the trunk? Skip the gym and head over to eBay where you can bid on a booty enhancement spell from a Wiccan. $8.95 and fre…

Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith

By Peter Montgomery

…on ancestors pushed handcarts across the country to their promised land in Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University in 1964, having spent most of her time there, Harris-Perry says, writing articles about Mormon womanhood. Meanwhile, her father, whose great-great-grandmother was sold as a slave on a street corner in Richmond, Virginia, attended Howard University where he was “converted to Black nationalism” and shared a room with Stokely Carmi…

Romney: Don’t Expect a Second Speech on Faith

By Joanna Brooks

…t of embarkation for the migration of Mormon pioneers across the plains to Utah from 1847 through the 1850s. But if his ancestors once struck out boldly from Council Bluffs, candidate Romney’s remarks there last week plot a far more cautious path to the nomination, once which avoids the issue of Mormonism as much as possible—if not completely. Criticism, ridicule, antipathy and antagonism towards Mormonism that has come out into the open during th…

Gun Group That Promotes Militias Thrilled With O’Donnell Victory

By Sarah Posner

…r GOA-backed candidates this year in Senate primaries in Nevada, Kentucky, Utah, Colorado, as well as the non-primary in Florida (where Marco Rubio chased Gov. Charlie Crist out of the primary—and out of the Republican Party). All of the candidates supported by GOA-PVF were opposed by the Republican establishment in their respective primaries. And all of these candidates agree with Gun Owners of America that it is not enough simply to defeat anti-…

Marco Rubio: Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…nds tunes, and tagged along with his cousins on family vacations to Provo, Utah, where they toured Osmond studios. His was a happy Mormon childhood, from his baptism by immersion at eight years old—most Mormon children are baptized at eight rather than in their infancy—to his eager participation in LDS youth social groups and his urging of his family members to attend their LDS Church meetings. But when the Rubio family moved to Florida in the ear…

Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege

By Joseph Laycock

…the “seven aphorisms” of their religion in a park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, virtually guarantees that Oklahoma will not have to erect a monument to Satan. Like the Oklahoma capital grounds, the park featured a number of monuments including a privately donated Ten Commandments monument. When the city vetoed Summum’s monument, the church’s lawyers argued that allowing one monument but not the other violated their freedom of speech. However, in…

Canadian Courts Consider Decriminalization of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…dston dairyman Harold Blackmore was among those who followed LeBaron and started his own remote FLDS community near Lister, British Columbia, naming it Bountiful after a city in the Book of Mormon. In 2002, when Warren Jeffs became President and Prophet of the Hilldale, Utah-based FLDS Church, the affiliated Bountiful community split over issues of succession. The case is sure to be watched closely among tens of thousands of FLDS and non-FLDS poly…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…n strength and unity in the wake of those attacks via the display of large numbers of United States flags. The general pattern for these rituals involves one flag displayed each of those who lost their lives on 9/11. While this often leads to the use of smaller than standard-size flags (in the Village Green of Winnetka, Illinois this year, for instance, 2,977 flag of 8’ by 12” inch each will be planted, an increase from the 4” by 6” flags used in…

Gays and Lesbians Don’t Pay Tithing, Hatch Says

By Joanna Brooks

…ogues. Never mind the fact that paying tithes or church offerings never prevented conservatives from giving abundantly to political causes….