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From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…younger people in Mormon-dominated Utah than elsewhere in the country. The website Utah Marriage provides these statistics for the year 2000: *Utah’s marriage rate is 10.6 per 1,000 populations, well above that of the United States, which stands at 8.7 *Median age at first marriage in Utah—Groom: 23 Bride: 21 *Median age at first marriage in United States—Groom: 26.8 Bride: 25.1 Marriages contracted so early face significant challenges, so it is g…

Perry Prayer Event “Getting Traction” with Religious Right Elites

By Sarah Posner

…it is paying for an event of which he is the “initiator,” according to its website. And the AFA, as the DMN piece points out, employs a radio host, Bryan Fischer, who “has said that Adolf Hitler began the Nazi party in a gay bar and recruited gays into his army because others would not match ‘the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict.’” That’s just one piece of Fischer’s and the AFA’s bigotry; even its own former employees decry the…

Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race

By Michael Schulson

…f play at the ideological fringe. For example, a leading white supremacist website has an enormous, longstanding discussion thread devoted to “evidence that the conventional racial groupings match real genetic groupings.” Americans regularly take for granted what Stormfront seems so anxious to defend: that race is a feature of nature, handed to us by evolution and/or God, and that we all better deal with it. The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scient…

In the Trenches with the HRC, Working for Transgender Inclusion

By Rev. Erin K. Swenson

…gender community. Far from a static document living behind a veil on their website, HRC’s Religion and Faith program has deployed their curriculum in 40 faith communities where legislators have been supportive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual protections but not transgender protections. The Religion and Faith program understands that our faith voices can be a powerful force in our work for transgender justice. On issues of gender identity and sexual…

Benedict’s Painful Legacy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…enedict’s papacy, offering only a short statement of gratitude on the LCWR website “for his many years of tireless service to the Catholic Church and for the contributions he has made as a theologian, as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and as pope.” Still, between the smackdown on nuns and the excommunication and silencing of priests supporting the ordination of women and opposing the Church’s position on birth control,…

How Steve Stockman Is Challenging John Cornyn Without Religion

By Sarah Posner

…rvative favorite. In Texas you must now out-Cruz Ted Cruz. On his campaign website, Stockman lays out the reasons why “I am running against liberal John Cornyn,” which has spawned the hashtag #liberaljohncornyn, with some entertaining results. Stockman addresses his fundraising announcement to “patriots,” proclaiming: You are in a foxhole fighting to save our constitutional Republic… …and the last thing you need is a Republican bayonet in your bac…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…by the campaign to introduce the candidate, nor by his washed-out looking website. Go to campaign headquarters at Jon2012.com (which, by the way, doesn’t come up when you Google “Hunstman 2012” or “Huntsman for President”—ouch). The first thing you see is a long shot of a helmeted man riding motocross across the red sands of Monument Valley in southern Utah. And a single word: “Finally.” Really? Still, despite some less than convincing first camp…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…ied out by the US in 1946. The paper was published online on the Wellesley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to the bacterium that causes…

Praying to the Zombie Jesus: The Spirituality of Horror

By W. Scott Poole

…rts, and even sometimes extravagant tattoos tell the zombie Jesus story. A website connects popular conceptions of the zombie to the Christian resurrection narrative and encourages a celebration of Easter as “zombie Jesus day.” In Philadelphia, the hugely popular annual zombie walk (in which participants become decaying version of themselves and shamble the streets as zombies on parade) takes place on Easter weekend with specific references to the…

Hobby Lobby, Bill Gothard, and the Submission of Women

By Sarah Posner

…cting the goal God has for every one of us.” Vyckie Garrison, who runs the website No Longer Quivering, “a gathering place for women escaping and recovering from spiritual abuse,” told me that she and her now ex-husband, although they lacked the money to attend Gothard’s seminars, followed his teachings through his homeschool curricula. She said her husband had believed, based on Gothard’s teachings, that he was responsible for his family’s salvat…