Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?
…claim him as a member of the tribe. Editors’note: Joanna will be speaking about Mormon identity in the 21st century June 11 in Salt Lake City. More information is here….
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Ann Romney’s Big Love on the Big RNC Stage
…gles. Like it or not, Ann Romney is probably the answer to the recent Salt Lake City Tribune question, “Who is the most visible Mormon woman?” So while Ann Romney framed her comments in a way last night that marriage seemed tough in the beginning, but with a lot of love, I chuckled. She probably had the help of many younger and older LDS women who talked about childrearing, baking, and keeping a household. The LDS Relief Society is a powerful plac…
Read MoreCatholic Bishops Want a Place at the Table of Hate
…s didn’t do it alone. Bishop John C. Wester, bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, stated: Like our friends in the Mormon faith, the Catholic Church has long championed and promoted the sacredness of traditional marriage and the importance of the family in our society. While acknowledging that this position is not universally held in our society today, our churches are committed to proclaiming the truth and we cherish our ability to participate…
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Utah’s First Same-Sex Married Couple: A Weight Has Been Lifted From Our Heart
On Friday, Michael Ferguson and Seth Anderson of Salt Lake City became the first gay couple in Utah history to get a marriage license. They spoke with Religion Dispatches Saturday morning. RD: You were the first gay couple in Utah to get a marriage license! MF: We are the first gay couple in the state of Deseret to get a marriage license! RD: What are you feeling? MF: I’ve been on cloud nine for twenty hours. I’ve never felt this way before. For…
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California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
…olor further calls into question the use of this abusive practice.” As the numbers have grown, so have the numbers of critics, Wired reports, citing a series of “scathing reports and documentaries” released in 2012 by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. That same year, the US Senate held its first-ever hearings on…
Read MoreUtah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics
…he Church’s top lobbyists reportedly spent 10 days on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City on the immigration issue. Last November, the Church publicly declared its support for a “Utah Compact” designed by Utah business and political leaders identifying five principles to guide immigration debate. The Compact pushed for problem-solving at the federal level, discouraged the use of local law enforcement in profiling alleged “illegal immigrants,” opposed t…
Read MoreTexas Man Indicted for Mosque Bomb Threat
…d attacks against America, roughly the same as Jewish extremists (6%). Eli Lake from Think Progress uses a data set from 1995 to 2011 to indicate that Muslim extremists committed 1/3 the number of attacks as right-wing groups in the US. Here at RD, we’ve analyzed data from The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS) to show that from 2001-2011, the chance of an American being a victim of Muslim extremist attack is the same as hi…
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Trump’s Mormon Problem
…, while an early August poll has Clinton with a slight lead. While Trump’s numbers are dropping almost everywhere—a recent poll indicated Clinton has grabbed a four percent lead in Georgia, for example—the Utah numbers invite further investigation. In Slate, historian Max Perry Mueller provided critical insight last week contextualizing Trump’s poor standing among Mormons within the LDS Church’s long history as victims of religious persecution and…
Read More5 Take-Aways from the Newly Viral Romney End-Times Video
…He talks about his role as a local LDS Church leader. He talks about Salt Lake City and Church policy. He talks theology. He talks about ultra-conservative LDS writer Cleon Skousen. He talks about violent end-of-days scenarios with a sureness and vigor some may find unsettling. And whoever has pushed this video out again believes that those elements will turn off non-Mormons, non-Christians, and the non-religious, and will motivate liberals to vo…
Read MoreChanges in Role of Mormon Women Can’t Be Discussed—But Let’s Discuss Them Anyway
…lines. Responses to the changes have varied widely. A headline at the Salt Lake Tribune proclaimed that “faithful feminists will see revisions and additions as a ‘leap forward,’” though plenty of “faithful feminists” expressed anger and pain. Women have repeatedly objected to misogyny in temple ordinances, in doctrine, in practice—and the response has usually been some sort of censure: pray more and criticize less, seek true understanding, quit be…
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