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

By Peter Montgomery

…bilizing religious voices as well. A group of anti-equality pastors held a competing Friday press conference led by Rev. William Owens, whose right-wing Coalition of African American Pastors has called on black Christians to withhold their votes from Obama. Owens said President Obama “sold us out” and called the president “Judas.” He admitted that that National Organization for Marriage was paying his salary, which he said was $20,000. Owens deni…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…n the internet, she found Mormons for Marriage, a website founded by Laura Compton, a California Mormon and mother of two, to offer community to LDS people who respectfully opposed their church’s stance on Proposition 8. When Mormons for Marriage started posting videos of Mormons sharing their thoughts on the anti-same-sex marriage campaign, Melanie felt compelled to contribute her own. During the 2000 Proposition 22 campaign in California, she ha…

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

…ique Obama’s double standard to ask Muslims to root out extremism in their communities, something not asked of other communities, Sarsour said, “I’m tired of this idea that extremism can only mean Muslims or Islam or people who are associated with Islam. Extremism comes in all forms and we’ve seen that, but why is it that we’re only obsessed with Islam and Muslim communities?” Then, as Nadine and I turned back to watch Sarsour further dismantle th…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…” found its way onto The Blaze. John Fea’s auto-da-fé came not only in the comments section, but in nasty emails, phone calls, and demands for his firing from Messiah College. As he discovered, the culture wars are real, and practiced even on those (like Fea) who largely have been critical of Obama’s actual implementation of his promises about faith-based policies. More important than these blogosphere wars, however, is understanding something dee…

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

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…ion” 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 back it up, no, there’s not r…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r thing to… do whatever Rep. Kelly thinks he’s doing. I give up. Here, have a video about Basenjis freaking out when a phone rings:…

A Journalist in Church, Hiding in Plain Sight

By Andre Tartar

…years, other personal rules also fell by the wayside. I began signing off phone calls with Paz de Cristo (Peace of Christ), and exclaiming Graças a Deus (Thanks be to God) when celebrating life’s good fortunes. Though Jesus’ divinity remains a mystery to me, I became increasingly comfortable wishing to others the Peace I knew they’d found in Christ. More than once, I felt an all-too-spiritual tingle as I crescendo-ed in collective song. During ch…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…ch in support of his gay nephew and gay sister-in-law. “People really felt compelled to come out no matter how miserable. And it was hot.” Meredith Hudson LeSueur, a straight LDS mother of two from Herriman, Utah, started to cry when she arrived at the Mormons Building Bridges meeting spot to find what she described as a “sea of Sunday best and strollers,” including her own—festooned in rainbow streamers. It was important, explained Luana Uluave,…

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

…thering phase. What will Washington Mormons for Marriage Equality do if it comes to the ballot? SH: We are organizing members on Facebook and will soon have our website up. We have already joined a Faith Action Network with Washington Catholics for Marriage Equality. Catholic archbishops allowed signatures to be collected in Catholic parishes—in the church itself. So far, at least four bishops have refused to do so, and Catholics for Marriage Equa…