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Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…traction with a friend he’d known since BYU days. Jahn Curran was a fellow Mormon, a father, and someone who’d also come to terms with his own homosexuality a few years earlier. Jahn offered Bryan a listening ear, and some practical advice. When Bryan called a few months ago, saying he could keep his situation from his wife no longer, Jahn told him, “Be prepared to fight a legal battle. Get a lawyer. My wife was very upset with me. I was in the ha…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…ict. “I’ll be the guy in the Ben’s Chili Bowl hat,” Merritt told me on the phone. Merritt, 42, was inspired by the movement’s goals of confronting structural economic problems, a tack that he says has largely been ignored by progressive religious activism. As to why there isn’t more of a religious presence at the Occupy protests, “I think about that a lot,” said Merritt. “I think: exactly what happened? What happened? Why aren’t there 50 clergy?”…

God Dissolves into the Occupy Movement

By Nathan Schneider

…at’s what Civil Rights protesters like Lewis had: inspiration. Lewis’ testimony is even more potent for the fact that he’s been harassed and called n*gger, not just during the Civil Rights Movement, but in the last two years by Tea Partiers. I doubt many if any of the Occupy Atlanta protesters have experienced anything like that. By becoming slaves to the “process” rather than accepting inspiration, the majority behaved like the corporate scions t…

Qaddafi Dies; Should it Matter How?

By Haroon Moghul

…r, unnecessary, and unacceptable spectacle of a hanging captured on a cell phone. If there is something that should distinguish us from those dictators who have corrupted our world, it must be here. In humility before death. In appreciation of our common humanity. In the sense that the universe is infused with a law and a purpose that makes our lives and hopes sacred, and which, from time to time, turns against those who offend it, to remind us th…

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

By Rachel Wagner

…is gamified, and games depict reality. Is it any surprise that we find it more and more difficult to tell the difference between them? Truth is, for many of us it’s just plain fun to play games. It’s something of a relief to temporarily enter into a space where the rules are discernible, success is measurable, good guys and bad guys are easily recognized, and where defeated enemies vanish in a puff of smoke or are left behind in conquered digital…

White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…f where the administration was leaning.” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the White House within a week. UPDATE: Another womens’ rights advocate tells me that she has “no reason to think” that the Obama administration feels it…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e thirty fellow prisoners. It is said that Nelson Mandela, Robben Island’s most famous 20th-century prisoner, called for the renaming of the prison in honor of Makana. Of course, Hawai’i’s Makana has hardly suffered beyond that moment of existential anxiety as he weighed, in an instant, the pros and cons of pissing off the president and possibly torpedoing a flourishing career. Sure, he’s unlikely to be invited to entertain Obama and friends anyti…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…nt, and has finally made it to the top of the polls, topping squeaky-clean Mormon Mitt Romney. But not without bumps in the road: prominent Southern Baptist Richard Land has cautioned Newt to be very apologetic about his past. Still, repentance would suffice. What Republican voters and the party can’t stomach is the arrogance of a black man who won’t repent. Cain’s lack of repentance and consistent lying exposes the fact that he isn’t a real card…

From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

By Joseph Laycock

…ficant because, according to journalist Maury Terry, Lueken also made anonymous phone calls to reporters investigating the Son of Sam murders. She offered information connecting David Berkowitz to a Satanic cult. I’m very interested in Satanic Panic and it seems that the Baysiders had a major role in disseminating urban legends that serial killers are part of an organized network of murderous cultists. 4. What are some of the biggest misconception…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…ted ally of LGBTIQ people both Methodist and otherwise. She will have many more opportunities to demonstrate her support. Managing Finances, Not the Needy The economic recession is another factor in contemporary church life. Bishop Carcaño worries that churches will pull back on their mission to preach and work toward economic justice. They are more worried, she observed, about managing finances than caring for the ill or the hungry. Not on h…