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Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…outdated reference to a folk-belief about “virgin-cleansing” that began in South Africa). One of the musical’s running gags—a young female convert believes she can use a typewriter to send text-messages—is simply groundless. East Africans are among the most adept users of cell phones in the world. The plot twists at the end raise questions about the racial politics of the show. Only a threat of American violence saves the villagers from the tyrann…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…rganization for the Family (IOF) rolled out its “Cape Town Declaration” in South Africa Friday, reaffirming the critical role of traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilization. The Declaration, already signed by hundreds of religious, political, social, and civic leaders from all the continents, states that the family is the “first and primordial community” and that marriage is “the conjugal bond of man and woman.” This definition i…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…for Rick Santorum, and 21% for Ron Paul. It is also worthy of note that in South Carolina Mitt Romney actually improved his share of self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Mormon sentiment played a role in Romney’s fortunes, but here are five other takeaways from South Carolina data: 1. Anti-Mormon sentiment may be fading amo…

Dear Scientists: Please Stop Bashing Free Will!

By John Horgan

…onsibility for ourselves rather than consign our fate to our genes or God. Free will works better than any other single criterion for gauging the vitality of a life, or a society. Choices, freely made, are what make life meaningful. When people doubt free will, they are more likely to behave badly. After reading a passage from a book that challenged the validity of free will, students were more likely to cheat on a mathematics exam. Others were le…

The Incredible Shrinking Free Exercise Clause

By Bruce Ledewitz

…elevant, which is why the Westboro Church case will be decided strictly on free speech grounds and not as a free exercise case. Smith was immediately unpopular and congressional efforts to overturn it by statute met with limited success, leaving federal government actions that substantially burden religious practice subject to the compelling state interest test, but state and local laws exempt. The funeral privacy interest in Snyder is a generall…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…active in Asia, Australia, Canada, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Africa, South America, Ukraine, and the US. CIGN envisions the church as “God’s instrument to establish and extend God’s Kingdom until the literal coming of Christ to reign over all the earth.” Towards this end, CIGN believes that “God has entrusted the church the solemn Biblical responsibility of being the conscience of society, culture and government” and therefore…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g offspring. They argue that the fundamental concept of marriage should be between a man and a woman, otherwise it would be “very confusing for children.” The South China Post said the court ruling in Taiwan “has reverberated across Asia, but the fight for equality is not over yet in a region where gay sex remains illegal in some countries.” Among the examples it cited were the caning of two Indonesian gay men and South Korea’s military court sent…

Does Religion Drive Evolution? And Other Questions from the Cutting Edge of Biohistory

By Arri Eisen

…tually going faster, up to a hundred times faster, than before humans left Africa. Why faster? Well, the scientists reason, not only have we dramatically changed environments from Africa to all corners of Earth, but there’s also vastly more of us, vastly more organisms on which evolution can work. Ten thousand years ago Earth hosted 10 million people; now it holds almost seven billion. So, the odds of any particular mutation occurring by chance is…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ith it, or if action worldwide may stall this thrust against Christianity. South Africa: Activists ask government to deny entry to extremist anti-gay American pastor Activists in South Africa have launched a petition asking the government to block American anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson from entering the country. Here’s how Anderson had responded to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida: “These homosexuals are a bunch of perverts an…

His Life in Our Hands: Remembering Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the greatest advocate of justice and peace alive at the time spoke to the South African people, I wept with many around the world: “Comrades and fellow South Africans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you the, people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my…