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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…

Is There Anyone in the Press Who Can Recognize the Bad Faith in Evangelical Faith?

By John Stoehr

…n with multiple women he didn’t marry. We would not see, in other words, a Washington press corps grown complicit in a decades-long effort by White evangelical Protestant leaders to gaslight America into thinking their zealotry is not at all dangerous to democracy despite all appearances to the contrary. We wouldn’t see evangelicals routinely escaping accountability. The bad faith of White evangelical faith A few days ago, National Public Radio ai…

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…

‘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…

Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

…in turn prompted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl as archbishop of Washington—Wuerl helped formulate the Church’s rules for preventing sexual abuse by priests—for his role in shuffling predator priests around the state when he was the head of the Pittsburgh diocese. But the recently announced U.S. attorney’s investigation marks a major turning point and a potential moment of reckoning in the long-running and sordid sex abuse scandal that f…

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…

Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…with Jamaica-born partner Lee Boyd Malvo, killed at least 10 people in the Washington DC area through the month of October 2002. Many of these shooters, regardless of race or religion, had known mental health issues. Likewise, a substantial number of the men on the Brady Campaign list were not previously identified as having psychological problems, but were “driven” to violent rage by financial and relationship crises. So we cannot name any specif…

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…

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…