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Meet the New LDS Face of Immigration Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…e guard in Mormon politics on immigration: goodbye Russell Pearce, the LDS Arizona state senator who authored that state’s controversial SB 1070, and hello Raul Labrador, a Republican congressman from Idaho’s first congressional district who has played an influential role in the development of the bipartisan immigration reform bill scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday. In an editorial last week in the Idaho Statesman, the Puerto Rican-born Labrador, w…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…ublic conversation about poverty. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.” Reagan’s caricature of the “welfare queen” cemented it in the American imaginary: By the time the “welfare queen” finally emerged on the national stage, the American pu…

Meet Wyoming’s Anti-Shari’ah Crusader

By Sarah Posner

…to murder.” This from a lawmaker who is worried that a murder defendant in Arizona will claim his was an “honor killing,” leading all of America down the inevitable path to an Islamic theocracy. WyWatch, on its website, clearly states that it’s “Judeo-Christian values” that should dictate our laws: The Mission of WyWatch is to promote and support legislation that sustains our constitutional rights, upholds Judeo-Christian values on which the natio…

Jeff Flake’s (Mormon-Influenced) Anti-Trump Speeches: Prophetic or Performance?

By Grant Shreve

…nt uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies. – Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R), Jan. 17, 2018 Last week, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) stood on the Senate floor and delivered a searing rebuke of President Trump’s continued assault on the legitimacy of mainstream news outlets. This is Flake’s second such address in six months. Last October, when he lambasted his Republican colleagues for their complicity in President Trump’s unrave…

Taking to the Streets for Darfur

By Jonathan L. Walton

…Over 2,000 persons began the week marching through the streets of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in order to raise money and awareness concerning genocide in the Sudan. “Walk for Darfur” is organized each year by the Jewish World Watch. The crowd was comprised primarily of members from about 60 area synagogues, yet was led by about a dozen Sudanese from Arizona….

The Third Party Publicity Stunt

By Sarah Posner

…February 12, 1998: At a closed-door convention of conservative leaders in Arizona last week, James Dobson, who heads the multimedia ministry Focus on the Family, warned that if the Republican Congress continued to ”betray” conservative evangelical voters, he would abandon the Republican Party and ”do everything I can to take as many people with me as possible.” * * * * Dr. Dobson excoriated a long list of Republican leaders who, he asserted, ”wh…

Becket Fund Misleads on Obama Defense of Contraception Lawsuit

By Sarah Posner

…parently designed to show the Republicans aren’t anti-woman. “This administration’s act of discrimination against people of faith, and women of faith, must be stopped,” she said in her statement. The tenor of the Republicans’ statements and questioning is captured by Arizona’s Rep. Trent Franks, who called the HHS regulation “not only a slap in the face to millions of Americans of faith, it is patently unconstitutional.” But Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-C…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ional curriculums. As evidenced by debates over ethnic studies programs in Arizona and California public schools, such struggles are politically fraught. Given the nation’s shifting demographics, which portend a more diverse population in the coming decades, educational curricula are a significant site of struggle in the process of cultural memory formation. From the earliest days of the Tea Party to Donald Trump’s latest xenophobic hysteria, such…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uld be denied entry into South Africa. Anderson has drawn attention to his Arizona-based Faithful Word Baptist Church with online videos of his extremist positions, including one in which he celebrated the June massacre at an Orlando gay bar. Mamba Online says the decision “follows a determined campaign by LGBT activists, led primarily by GaySA Radio, to stop the preacher, who calls for the execution of gay people, from spreading his shocking view…

Make Way for Liberal Pro-Lifers

By Patricia Miller

…s not “politicizing” the Mass? … The real offense the bishops committed in Arizona for Weigel was calling attention to an issue on which the Republicans are in the wrong. If the bishops keep up their emphasis on immigration reform it may prove a tricky issue for Republicans to dodge given that the preponderance of potential GOP hopefuls (Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum) are Catholic. Like Kerry on abor…