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Maryland Governor says Support for Marriage Equality “Very Much Informed” by his Catholicism

By Peter Montgomery

…evin mentioned last Friday’s press conference with equality-supporting African American clergy from Maryland and national figures including Rev. Al Sharpton. Also speaking was Rev. Christine Wiley of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ in Washington DC; Wiley was a co-chair of DC Clergy United for Marriage Equality, which played a visible role during the successful legislative campaign for marriage equality in DC. Speakers at Friday’s press…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…othy Martin, a suburban homemaker who believed that she was able to communicate telepathically with superior beings from the planet Clarion. They told her things and she wrote down what they said. One thing they told her was that a giant flood was going to submerge North America but, before it did, Martin and a handful of acolytes would be rescued by a flying saucer. Dorothy Martin wasn’t exactly William Miller but she would do in a pinch. Festing…

Republicans in Favor of Reproductive Rights

By Katie Toth

…ans and 50 percent of the general population identified as “pro-life”; the number of Americans who identified as “pro-choice” hit a record low. But respondents’ opinions on policy issues around abortion had not drastically changed from previous years. Just over half of Americans think abortion should be “legal under certain” circumstances, only 2 percent more people than last year. Meanwhile, 25 percent of Americans (compared to 27 percent in 2011…

Pennsylvania Rep. Says Contraception Mandate Is Like Pearl Harbor and 9/11

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ng floor speech last week that got picked up by conservative media, Republican US Representative Mike Kelly is in the spotlight today for likening the contraception mandate to the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks. Yeah, you know? I’ve got nothing. Maybe he really believes in that equivalency. Maybe he thinks that the contraception mandate is a lot like an attack by a foreign power. Maybe when he sat down and thought, “What’s the appropriate image to…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…ng into me, daring me to speak up—like one Wednesday evening in February I can recall vividly. I was, as usual, seated toward the back of the Assembléia de Deus de New York, a branch of Brazil’s largest neo-Pentecostal church, listening to a charged-up visiting pastor preach, not slowed by his arm in a sling. When he made the ‘call’ I remember my temperature spiking and the sideways glances of the few regulars sitting in my same row. Then I consid…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…e and parents kicking out kids, it hammers at my heart,” she explained. “I came because I wanted to be part of what I hope will be a new direction for LDS people.” Initially, Munson and other organizers had hoped to attract one hundred LDS marchers. About ten minutes before parade start time, marcher Clair Barrus of Draper, Utah, counted about 475 members of the Mormons Building Bridges delegation, ranging in age from toddlers to senior citizens….

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…have been a helpful tidbit for Wills’s column. But if there’s no time for phone calls or web searches, well, at the very least, there are fact-checkers. And here’s a modest proposal for the editors at the New York Review of Books and the New York Times and every other publication that will be running a lot of Mormon content this campaign season but has no Mormons on its editorial staff: Hire a Mormon fact checker. There are a number of advanced g…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…op 8, a good friend came up to me and asked, “What is your Church doing in California? Why? Can you explain it to me?” It was not an attack. He genuinely wanted to understand, and I didn’t have a good answer. I was ashamed that I didn’t have a good answer. Over time, I reflected on the shame I felt. I realized that at some point in the future my kids will ask what I did at this time, and I feel a responsibility for what has been done in the name…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e, but we still need to work through the employers,” it becomes very complicated. Advocates for some Jain institutions say, “Wait, now we have to facilitate the meat-getting by our non-Jain employees? This is an outrage! We’re being forced to violate our religious principles!” Their critics reply, “Oh, please. Nobody’s asking you personally to eat meat. Anyway, you didn’t have any qualms about hiring these people, and you’ve entered into contracts…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…iation… and what if they were there collecting supplies that looked pretty canonically like bomb-making supplies. Then, the idea coalesced that this could be the TV spot they pulled. If it’s memorable it’s because it plays upon so many tropes of the terrorist oeuvre. I had been watching a lot of the tense, masterful Homeland. So we wanted to lean into those “wait, are they…?” moments. It’s been well-received by most, and it was important to us tha…