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Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…ready to counter misinformation about marriage equality and religious freedom. Our Washington law [SB 6239] already states that no religion shall be forced to perform same-sex marriages. Still, backers of the referendum are trumpeting out misleading arguments about same-sex marriage compromising religious freedom. We will counter those with facts. SL: And doctrine too. Agency—the right of individuals to make moral choices—is an important element…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…eir deep commitment to their faith. Mormons Building Bridges participants prepared signs with verses from LDS hymns, scriptures, and quotations from LDS Church leaders—“All are alike unto God;” “Jesus said love everyone;” “God loves all of His Children”—and hundreds of lollipops bearing “love one another” stickers to distribute to parade crowds. Just before the parade began, a member of the Mormons Building Bridges delegation offered an opening pr…

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…ept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” Most people call it the serenity prayer and focus on the accepting part. It actually is more balanced. It could also be called the change prayer. It could also be called the wisdom prayer. The Pope has prevailed, in the way Occupy did, in naming the agenda as moral. No one can speak without using the word moral. Al Gore asks the moral questions…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…isagreement escalated. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a 45-minute phone call to Netanyahu. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, after being summoned to the State Department for a dressing down, reportedly called the dispute a 35-year nadir of the US-Israel relationship. Subsequently, in an attempt to tamp down concerns, Oren took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to deny that he had engaged in such a characterization, and to minimize t…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…Polish tinfoil hat so can wear it to Restoring Honor Rally 7. Find E.T. 8. Phone home Sarah Palin 1. Conference call with Smokey the Bear to map out guerrilla grizzly action plan 2. Primp for photo shoot with Today’s Christian Woman 3. Order camouflage Bible 4. Call Pat Robertson for spiritual guidance 5. Put hubbie on short leash 6. See if can find any prayer warriors willing to go all biblical on Levi 7. Send Rush a belated wedding gift Mel Gibs…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…tic plays for attention or celebrity status. The Orlando nightclub shooter reportedly checked his phone for news about the shooting during the actual event; the man who murdered hostages at the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store in Paris last year filmed the attack on a GoPro camera (in that light, the company’s slogan, Be a HERO, seems chilling). It would be wrong to ignore these shooters—their acts have enormous consequences—but you feel complici…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination, told the Blade last month that sodomy laws will tumble “like dominoes in the Caribbean” because of the Belize ruling. The government of Antigua and Barbuda told a local newspaper a court would likely find the country’s law that criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual conduct unconstitutional if were legally challenged. “There’s a shift in political tone,” Orozco told the Blade. After meeting with religious…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…may not yield as reliable of estimates as probability samples taken over a phone or another method. That is, we tend to be somewhat skeptical of population estimates produced by such data.” Asked what they thought the purpose of the 2020 State of Theology Survey might be, and whether it might be geared toward driving evangelicals to the polls, Whitehead replied, “I do think there is a particular narrative that they are trying to push with this res…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…by proponents of the personhood ideology. It’s a very common belief among Republicans. Reporters need to make that clear to their readers and listeners and viewers. Andrew Seidel expects that the Alabama ruling will have a similar effect to the passing of the draconian Texan abortion “bounty-hunter” law, which served as a blueprint for other Red states: I do think more states are going to follow suit on this. That’s a virtual certainty. The goal…

Tea Party 2.0, Ready For Post-Election Launch

By Julie Ingersoll

…alition, Ralph Reed. Reed is now founder and chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition—and he’s not waiting until tomorrow afternoon to get started. At 11:00 in the morning at the National Press Club, he and Glen Bolger of Public Opinion Strategies will hold a press conference in which they will put their spin on the election results by releasing a post election poll. Boasting that, leading up to the election, they distributed “6 million voter g…