Religion Dispatches
…all devout Mormon men over the age of twelve), serving as missionaries, or participating in Mormon temple ordinances from 1849 until 1978, a fact that many Mormons today find difficult to talk about or explain. In the earliest years of Mormon history, during the 1830s and 1840s, six or seven African-American men including Elijah Abel (1808–1885) and Walker Lewis (1798–1856) were ordained to the Church’s priesthood. But under the leadership of Morm…
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…it’s also worth using some caution in understanding its significance and impact. While his campaign is trying to create an aura of evangelical inevitability, the WORLD magazine (unscientific) survey of evangelical leaders, for example, still shows Cruz running behind Marco Rubio for support among evangelical elites. Although the Texas meeting was off the record, the big names who were revealed are of the type that have strong name recognition amon…
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…ted. Only 149 groups existed before Obama was elected in 2008. In 2012 the number had expanded to 1,360. Not all are plotting terrorist attacks, of course. But some are. In September 2012, Daryl Johnson, a terrorist analyst for the US Department of Homeland Security testified before a Senate committee that there was an “upsurge” of potentially violent non-Islamic extremist activity in the United States. So fingers point toward right-wing Christian…
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…e-providers like bakeries and florists, dress-shops, hair salons, and “any number” of other businesses could claim that their services are in fact a form of constitutionally protected artistic practice. “The claim at issue here sounds as if the business can put up a sign in its window that says, ‘We sell cakes for heterosexuals only,’” Melling explained, taking ADF’s logic to its natural conclusion. “There’s an immediate consequence of that, and t…
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…ith perspective and we can’t let bad behavior go unpunished.” The call was part of the Clinton campaign’s stepped-up Catholic outreach, and it’s clear the candidate is looking to capitalize on its strength with Catholics. “I really feel like the Catholic vote is going to be critical to our success,” said Kaine. If Catholics are acting on their values by punishing Trump for his bad behavior and evangelicals aren’t, this suggests that for many evang…
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…kly, nearly seven in ten are Christian nationalists (33% Adherents, 36% Sympathizers), compared to six in ten of those who seldom or never attend religious services (25% Adherents, 35% Sympathizers). Similarly, 56% of White evangelicals who attend church weekly or more, compared to 54% who attend less frequently, believe that “God intended America to be a new promised land where European Christians could create a society that could be an example t…
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…ious faiths or employ persons of different religious faiths when running a parochial school. Indeed, this was never the Departments’ intention in connection with the 2011 amended interim final rules or the 2012 final rules.” (emphasis added) In other words, the administration claims it never intended to deprive a religious organization of an exemption if it was operationally connected to a church but served and employed people of different faiths….
Read More…tal counselor the couple had been required to see refused to certify their participation complained that that the men “suffer from madness.” The counselor is the head of an anti-equality organization, the Coalition of Baja California Families. According to this report, the mayor has been under pressure by Bishop José Isidro Macias. The couple has filed a complaint against the mayor, who could reportedly be removed from office for contempt of court…
Read More…a few sociologists and cultural experts suggested that, not the “German Department of Statistics, but Deutsche Welle, which is a newspaper in Germany that published the opinions of these cultural anthropologists. There are any number of errors regarding what has been documented as a decline in pregnancies/child births among women in the Muslim world that can be read here. Notwithstanding the fact that both Germany and France’s constitutions and l…
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…has no space or place in the Jewish religion,” he says. “We oppose the occupation because we are Jewish.” Payos hang down on either side of his face; he wears a fedora and a Palestinian flag wrapped around his neck. “This was given to me by an Arab,” he later explains. Thousands of miles away an American émigré from Brooklyn takes the train to Sderot from his apartment outside of Jerusalem. He wants to see what is happening in Gaza for himself, so…
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