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Meet the New (Straight White American Male) Mormon President

By Holly Welker

…church is not to seek apologies or to give them.” Monson’s obituary in the New York Times sparked controversy when some readers felt that it “focused too narrowly on the politics and controversies of the Mormon Church and overlooked Mr. Monson’s contributions to the community.” Given that the church’s top leadership, as noted above, still consists entirely of straight white American men in their 80s and 90s not known for their open-mindedness or i…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…he same. We’re in a new political era. Marriage equality did not happen in New York by the usual horse-trading, stealing money from tenants’ rights or exchanging limitations on taxing the wealthy. It happened because Governor Cuomo’s domestic partner helped him see that gay friends and family are more important than misguided theology. It happened because Catholic families called their electeds and their bishops and said, “whatever you do, make su…

‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ired by the ambitious, gorgeous photography of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York project which chronicles the denizens of New York City in all of their diverse, vivid, daily glory. In other words, Pembroke wasn’t out to create a maudlin page of woe. He was out to chronicle the quotidian. In doing so, he inadvertently created community through his chronicle of the anguished, humorous trial-and-error of parenting. This is not just a dancing cat b…

Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe

By Paul Harvey

…all the refutations and belittling of pedigree, Barton still appears in a New York Times “puff piece,” argues with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and fields calls from congressmen and presidential candidates. In short, if this were a basketball game between Barton and professional historians, in some ways it’s already a rout, with Barton far ahead and the scrubs in to play out the garbage time. Ideas Packaged as Products Some of that is because o…

Bad Faith: The Catholic Hierarchy’s Pointless Campaign Against LGBT Rights

By Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata

…employ in these campaigns is hardly pastoral. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, referred to same-sex marriage as “an Orwellian nightmare” and an “ominous threat.” He compared his state’s government to North Korea’s during New York’s recent debate on marriage equality. Then, upon losing the debate, this prince of the Church, with a palace on Fifth Avenue, proclaimed himself a victim of intolerance. We are well acquainted with the history of an…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…eddon (bottom right, from 1998) and many more, that have displayed similar New York City destruction, and made this collective vision of exploding buildings so much more forceful, but also confusing. As many news commentators suggested of the 9/11 events: “It’s just like a movie.” At first, that Tuesday morning, the billions outside the NYC area simply watched. And watched and watched and watched… the planes striking the trade towers. With a soc…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…erhaps equally-strict hipster libertinism. At the beginning of this month, New York City Department of Transportation workers sandblasted away the bike lanes painted on the Hasidic side of Bedford, between Flushing and Division Avenues. It came as the result of a decision made earlier in the year, seen by both communities as a move by Mayor Bloomberg to win over the Hasidim by placating, so to speak, their fashion sensibilities: a religious injunc…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…s in NY—names like Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo are still on the lips of New Yorkers, decades after their victimization. Of course, since the city is all “minority,” it means that for the NYPD all New Yorkers are suspect. Mayor Bloomberg’s actions and inactions make him complicit in the actions of the police. Over at The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to document police profiling of African Americans, and now Muslims. Essentially, the NYPD…

No Space for American Islam?

By Mark Bergen

…t shout back ‘Ground Zero mosque,’ ‘Ground Zero mosque.’” In December, the New York Times ran a small story on the prayer space downtown and its plans to transition into a larger Muslim center. Alarm spread quickly with many conservatives, as Zachary Roth reported in May, “driven to apoplexy” by the proposal. Beginning in the blogosphere, enmity quickly trickled upward, eventually reaching public figures and candidates eager to exploit a divisive…

God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ur identity, whether it’s slave or free, ultimately fades away and we have new dignity, status and value in Christ—so we ended up in that liberating trajectory on the issue of slavery even though the New Testament doesn’t explicitly condemn it. In the very same passage it talks about how male and female is something that doesn’t affect people’s status when we’re baptized in Christ, so I argue that hierarchy and gender in marriage is not intrinsic…