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Openly Gay Mormon Appointed to LDS Church Leadership Position

By Joanna Brooks

…lly-occurring human trait that is not abhorrent to God. Some congregations welcome participation by openly gay people who maintain chastity. Other Mormons, however, feel that it is unjust and impossible to expect gay Mormons to abstain from intimate relationships their entire lifetimes. The LDS Church’s recent investments in anti-marriage-equality campaigns like Proposition 8 have created deep divides in Mormon families and communities, giving tho…

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…ge off the table, LGBT politics in Utah does not “advocate domesticity and promote consumption under the name of equality politics.” It engenders grassroots, cross-party dialogue that takes into consideration the needs of various households—single, gay, straight, and other. This community-based politicking was embodied by the 2009 “Common Ground Initiative” (CGI) formulated by Equality Utah. Although the CGI is no longer Equality Utah’s stated mis…

How Much is a Google?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cision could be profound and far-reaching. And they extend well beyond the welcome revisiting of the fundamental question concerning the balance between the local and the global, the pull of economic necessity and the push toward human rights. The fact that the new electronic media are the site of this battle is the real story. From Athens and Tehran, to Beijing and elsewhere, a younger generation that has grown up with computers, and cellphones,…

Bless Your Heart! The Religious Right Tries to Be Civil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lity when I see it. In the toxic atmosphere of politics, this seems like a welcome change, but when you read deeper, you can practically hear both DeMoss and Davis ending each sentence with a half smile, a light touch, and a sweet, “Bless your heart.” DeMoss’ first example of the incivility he sees in the world concerns the vandalism of some churches and temples after California voters passed Proposition 8, banning marriage equality for gays and l…

A Revolutionary Plea in the Wake of Attempted Synagogue Bombing

By Hussein Rashid

…Muslim and American and have another reason to fear that they will not be welcome or may be targeted in retaliation. Reports say that the four suspects in the plot are angry about America’s actions in Afghanistan. They decided to bomb two synagogues in New York, since, according to one suspect, “the best target” — the World Trade Center — “was hit already.” The disturbing calculus of these men can only be understood in the context of hatred, igno…

God’s Heart Has No Borders

By Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

…few take-home messages. First, immigrants are not the problem. The way we welcome immigrants to the nation—or fail to do so—is the problem. Welcoming and integrating new immigrants has caused much strife in our country in recent years, and I want readers to know that religion has the potential to lessen human conflict, suffering and exclusions. In fact, religious people have already been actively working to include immigrants in US society. This…

Hating God: The Untold Story

By Bernard Schweizer

…d him to do a guest stint at RD. He graciously accepted, and we’re glad to welcome him. ________________________ Just when you thought that “new atheism” marked a radical turn in nonconformist thought, along comes an even more rebellious concept of religious dissent: misotheism. What I’ve tried to do in my work is to take the lid off this simmering, largely repressed stew of blasphemy — and to do away, for good, with the false notion that atheists…

How Not to Rescue Muslim Women

By Shabana Mir

…lues and our lifestyle? Of course we wouldn’t. So why do we expect them to welcome us with open arms and say, ‘Oh, please come and turn our societies upside down. Please change the way we work. Please make us do things the opposite from how we do them. We love America and we love equality. We love feminism. Come and teach us how to do it.’” As the two baristas chatted, agreeing on culturally relativistic values on gender, I struggled on my private…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…ot turn ignorance to fear, and fear into hate. Returning to my city, I was welcomed once more. And I encountered the vibrancy of faith that I missed so much in my time away. The symphony of the Sh’ma, of the Lord’s Prayer, of the Fatiha, of Om Namah Shivaya, of “Fuck God,” was all around me. And in that diversity I understood my own faith. I grew up in one of the most diverse Jewish areas in America, and saw the parallels in my own faith. I knew o…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…own sensibility. Not only do Brown and the Masons both love secrets and encoded symbols, but they believe that all of it must surely add up to some single great truth. It is a worldview that flourished in the Enlightenment, in which occult science and a deep sense of mystery surrounded the rise of modern rationalism. What today might appear to be a contradiction between reason and occult mysticism was once a natural relationship, and no other mov…