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How (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop

By Joanna Brooks

…nd receives input from other congregational leaders, male and female. The Washington Post and Salon stories do highlight aspects of LDS congregational life that, while taken for granted by Mormons, may raise eyebrows among non-Mormon readers. Yes, members of an LDS congregation are expected to confess deeply personal matters to lay clergy who are effectively their neighbors and peers. (Mormon women who would prefer to confess to or counsel about…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…t of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. Grossman is Dean of the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington D.C. and a professor of international and human rights law. The International Association of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersex people for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) praised Grossman, who has been honored by, among others, the ACLU of the National Capital Area and the Hispanic National…

Gingrich’s Anti-Secularism Greatest Hits

By Sarah Posner

…say that Washington “elites” wouldn’t have listened anyway: The elites in Washington find it extremely difficult, at least between New York and Los Angeles, to talk about the role of our Creator in defining America. And I think all of the secondary arguments — Judge Moore’s arguments, for example — come from winning this argument: That is historically false, to suggest that you can describe America as a society whose rights come from any place ot…

LDS Church Acknowledges Past Racism, Repudiates Racist Remarks

By Joanna Brooks

…Church. The statement officially abandons as “speculation” or “opinion” a number of rationale for the ban propounded as doctrine by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mormon leaders. The statement is also significant, say observers of Mormon history, because it may be the first time the Church has acknowledged that the priesthood ban did not originate with LDS Church founder Joseph Smith. Finally, the statement acknowledges past and present racism…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r Ludovine de la Rochere and Brown blossomed, with de la Rochere flying to Washington DC to speak at NOM’s June 19, 2014 Marriage March. The two apparently wanted to collude again, this time to influence the French elections in presidential elections in May and the legislative elections in June, arguing for traditional family values. South Korea: Army reportedly targeting gay soldiers Army investigators, reportedly under orders from the Army chief…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…eader A. Philip Randolph, for whom he continued to work after the March on Washington. And, consistent with the long Quaker tradition of pacifism (“all wars and fightings with carnal weapons we deny”) Rustin was a tireless peace activist, working with both the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters League. He was himself a draft resister during World War II and was imprisoned from 1944 to 1947 as a result of his disobedience to the 194…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…o had a deep interest in mesmerism and “animal magnetism.” It’s a stretch. Washington’s religious beliefs were on the milder side of deism, and Lafayette never could convince Washington to delve into mesmerism. Still, the digressions are fun. Another stop on the tour is 293 Bleeker St., where Thomas Paine lived a few grim years toward the end of his life. Paine, of course, loathed anything that smacked of “mystery, miracle, and prophecy”; but it i…

Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…de a “mistake.” That, in turn, sparked a spate of articles like one in the Washington Post with the headline “Is there a place at the Woman’s March for Women who are politically opposed to abortion?” Suddenly, the Woman’s March wasn’t about opposition to Donald Trump, his misogyny, and his policies that would restrict access to both abortion and contraception. It was about how mean and unreasonable mainstream feminists were being by not making roo…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…row, the State Department hosted the P2P: Challenging Extremism finals in Washington. It’s the culmination of an international “peer to peer” marketing contest that enlists youngsters like CJ to combat extremism using the latest advertising techniques. CJ and his team of West Point cadets just took second place. Their Facebook page—which West Point has asked VICE News not to name—and a corresponding Twitter account and website are all part of wha…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rch to bring disciplinary charges. Trustees of the AFF have been active in Washington, D.C. and Maryland churches, some of which have split with the Episcopal church and joined the AAC. The regional group had long opposed evolving church policies related to the ordination of women and the full inclusion of LGBT persons. They had previously coordinated their efforts against these changes through their ACC chapter. The recent name change allows memb…