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Archbishop of Chicago Accuses Emanuel of McCarthyism Over Chick-fil-A

By Sarah Posner

…y? One is welcome to believe that, of course; but it should not become the official state religion, at least not in a land that still fancies itself free. Surely there must be a way to properly respect people who are gay or lesbian without using civil law to undermine the nature of marriage. There’s an embedded fallacy there, of course, that gay marriage “undermine[s] the nature of marriage,” and that it’s somehow constitutionally impossible to gr…

Mormon Church Finally Notes Black Elders, Still Offers No Apology

By Darron T. Smith

…tenance of racist discourse. Church leaders appear convinced that the 1978 official declaration, which ended 125 years of racial discrimination against black people (beginning with Brigham Young’s statement to the Utah Territorial Legislation in 1852) was enough to silence their critics. With a revelation and the stroke of a pen, white racist traditions ostensibly ceased to exist. Mitt Romney claimed he was overcome with emotion at the announcemen…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…copy of the legislation to the federal registrar, so the law didn’t become official. Okay, so that’s kind of an absurd situation with comedic potential. But then Jon Stewart did a bit where he pretended to be Dick Molpus putting the form in the “mailbox,” which was really a paper shredder, because… Molpus is likely a racist, I gather was the idea. It turns out, though, that the real Dick Molpus has been a champion of civil rights in Mississippi,…

Paul Ryan: “This Is Not Theology…”

By Peter Laarman

…ted in the fairy dust part because, of course, Ryan maintains just the opposite. He insists that economic pragmatism, not faith in unseen things or a theological belief system, makes his growth-through-inequality formula viable. But in doing so, he specifically rejects and mocks the one economic lever—supply-side Keynesianism—that has been conclusively shown to allow sickly economies to grow their way out of slumps without ultimately leaving a cru…

A Faith-Based Opportunity for Obama

By Sarah Posner

…d local governments partner with faith based organizations,” a White House official told me. Michelle Boorstein at the Washington Post also reports that DuBois also will be writing “a book of devotionals for leaders based on the ones he sends the president each day.” A successor has not been announced. But DuBois’ departure gives the White House an opportunity to recast the office with a director focused on overseeing significant constitutional pr…

Faith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL

By Douglas Harrison

Did you catch the 14th Annual Official NFL Super Bowl Gospel Celebration on the Friday before Super Bowl XLVII? Yeah, me neither. In fact, I’m a little embarrassed to admit that despite having spent the better part of my adult life studying and writing about gospel (albeit the Southern white variety rather than the more familiar black gospel tradition featured at the Super Bowl event), I had never heard of this “faith and football” celebration be…

The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement

By Jonathan Dudley

…other side of the argument. As Aquinas put it (in a view that remained the official position of the Catholic Church from the medieval era to the mid-1800s), “The rational soul ought to be united to a body which may be a suitable organ of sensation… before the body has organs in any way whatever, it cannot be receptive of the soul.” More sophisticated anti-abortion arguments were advanced once the movement was already underway, notably the 1982 pub…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nged and I’m no longer attracted to the same sex, I’m attracted to the opposite sex.” When I would ask those questions point blank I would find out these people weren’t changing. Not only that but they push these theories. I heard over and over again that I must have had a distant father or an overbearing mother and this was why I was gay. When I told them that was not true and that I have a great relationship with both of my parents, I was basica…

Five Women President Obama Should Invite to Give the Inaugural Benediction

By Joanna Brooks

…ustice and spiritual revitalization. Sanaa Nadim: Nadim (pictured above in official White House photo) is one of the first Muslim chaplains at an American university and among the first women to serve as a Muslim university chaplain. Anapesi Kaili: A Mormon Tongan-American community organizer and founder of the HYPE (Helping Youth Pursue Emancipation) Movement for and by Pacific Island Youth. And she’s a layperson. Because it’s important to rememb…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…6. Election-year media scrutiny discloses lingering LDS racism, prompting official statement from the LDS Church. Racist comments defending the LDS Church’s century-long ban on black priesthood ordination by BYU religion professor Randy Bott appear in the Washington Post, prompting embarrassment among rank-and-file LDS people and a statement from LDS Church headquarters acknowledging past racism and suggesting that there are no doctrinal grounds…