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High Ark: A Geologist on the True Meaning of Noah’s Flood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…was critiquing a “beta version” of modern geology. That was part of their motivations, Morris and Whitcomb realized the shortcomings of what was out there, and they teed up off of that. They went off on an irrational tangent, but had a surprisingly rational foundation for their argument. So do you think if they could recognize modern geology, there’d be hope? Well, as long as you start out with the answer—the flood—and then look for evidence to b…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…rwaves and blogosphere of the right. Given Obama’s frequent Christian testimony—explicit enough to make most founding fathers uncomfortable with its public expression of private matters—how can this view be so widely held? Is it because, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama has been sitting in his office, snipping away with his scissors and cutting out the relatively few passages of the Bible that he has deemed worthy of inclusion in his own expurgated te…

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…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…land. Needless to say, the Church hierarchy has a different take. The Baltimore Sun reports today that Baltimore Archbishop William Lori will co-host an anti-equality event on Wednesday night; his co-host is Derek McCoy, the Harry Jackson-affiliated head of the Maryland Marriage Alliance, which is leading opposition to marriage equality. Speaking to bloggers on a call organized by Marylanders for Marriage Equality, O’Malley said he was confident t…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…explain this phenomenon—income factors that may have made low-cost clinics more appealing, or the number of abortion clinics in the U.S. and how that has changed over the time period in question, or the possibility that people in private practice would rather not perform abortions for any number of possible reasons, including threats on their lives—you’d be left unsatisfied. Likewise, the report expresses grave concern over the fact that the ver…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…ng the black woman is God, that she gave birth to humanity. There’s no one more loving, more giving, more healing than the black woman. In order for her to endure so much and still be loving is an indication of her godlike presence. What are your thoughts on the “I met God, she’s black” shirts that became so popular last year? When I started seeing those, I became very concerned because it was like: I need to get on this now. My intention was to c…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mong transgender women in Mexico: Violence against transgender women is common in Mexico, mostly because employment discrimination forces many to turn to sex work for money. The skeleton saint — with her female form and association with death — is particularly appealing to transgender sex workers, who face the persistent threat of violent clients and transphobic hatred. Unlike official church figures such as Our Lady of Guadalupe whose images are…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…that a significant number of “Concerned Citizens of the United States” are Mormon. But so too are a significant number of undocumented immigrants living in the American West. As we’ve reported here at RD, the Church’s strongest growth over the last decade has been among Latino populations, and almost 4.5 million Mormons worldwide are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant outcry go hand-in-hand in American history. And even though…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sgust” in the east African country and make domestic legislation against homosexuality more pressing. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s declaration shows the West has become totally disoriented and descended into a Sodom and Gomorrah society,” he said, referring to the biblical cities destroyed by God as punishment for their depravity. “But that’s their business – they can’t impose it on us.” Mozambique: Homosexuality decriminalized The BBC reports on the…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…h. He also co-wrote the film Bros B4 Hos with Jeff Marx (Avenue Q/ Book of Mormon) and Jeff Witzke, created a new attraction/show for Universal Studios, authored the play Us & Them performed at Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre, wrote a number of pivotal speeches for the Anti Prop. 8 Movement and the popular “It Gets Worse” viral video for Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” campaign. Fox optioned his pilot “Yearbook” as part of their Diversity program, his pi…