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The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…nation.” Interestingly, this concern may have been prescient. In 2010, because Judge Vaughn Walker, the California jurist who struck down Prop. 8, did not have sufficient legal precedent to use sexual orientation as a vulnerable class, he advanced the logic of sex discrimination in his ruling, that “because of their relationship to one another,” gays and lesbians are “discriminated against due to their biological sex” (See Perry v. Schwarzenegger,…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…k that proposed legislation in Uganda that would restrict nonprofit groups promoting social justice and human rights issues may be weakened in response to international criticism. But nonprofits and civil society groups warn that the bill’s vague legal language could allow the government to pressure organizations to shy away from social justice, human rights or political advocacy work. “There’s a clause looking at NGO accountability and transparen…

A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…, to tell patients where they might find services the Catholic hospital refuses to provide (an ethical obligation many of us believe should be required of all recipients of public funding)? What, exactly, prevents a Catholic hospital from saying, kindly and calmly, “I’m sorry, we don’t provide contraception here as it is against the moral teachings of our church. However, I respect that you may have a different position or religious belief. If you…

Beyond Adam and Eve

By Becky Garrison

…outreach to the kids who attend Harvey Milk school, teaching LGBT youth to use art for self-expression. And they offer single-stall unisex bathrooms that allow transgendered people to use the facilities without trouble. Varghese offers a different perspective noting that in some feminist circles, a female who transitions into a male is perceived as caving in to the patriarchal narrative. In these settings, straight women often find themselves ost…

Evangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?

By Sarah Posner

…sorry, that’s just not the language an evangelical marriage crusader would use. They would use terms like “sanctity” and “traditional marriage” and “God’s design” and all that. Not that mushy “values we hold so dear.” It’s not just values we hold so dear — it’s God’s command, God’s plan, God’s design for men, women and the family. (Have the Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government read anything Vander Plaats has written?) Of course it’s possible…

‘Do They Even Read the Bible?’ — Why Exposing White Evangelical Hypocrisy is a Dead End

By Cavan Concannon

…gelical hypocrisy is doomed to failure, but we keep doing it. We do it because it feels good. Letting off steam against a faceless digital avatar is really the lifeblood of social media after all. It also feels good to get the adulation that comes with a social media pile on. We feel good knowing that other people saw us challenging an enemy in public. But despite the momentary good feels, not much changes. What this social media trope should teac…

LDS General Conference in the “Mormon Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…’ ability to communicate with the public and encouraging Church members to use this time to dialogue candidly with friends about our faith, whether in person or by social media. Members should be certain to declare their faith in Jesus Christ, said Perry. As someone who writes about Mormonism for a general public, it’s my experience that most people actually know little about what we believe—especially how we relate to mainline Christianity. The M…

A Big Question About Little Sisters of the Poor

By Sarah Posner

…ction between the Little Sisters’ religious objection and their employees’ use of contraception would be even more attenuated than Notre Dame’s. Indeed, it’s not at all obvious why the plaintiff has standing to object to the self-certification requirement: How could the Little Sisters be complicit in their employees’ use of contraceptives if those employees will not receive reimbursement for those services? As the district court in Denver found in…

“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden

By Michael Schulson

…of things. And when I was about to turn 40, I became interested in health promotion and disease prevention from a personal standpoint. As I read recommendations regarding health promotion and good healthy forms of living, it occurred to me that we were in fact reinventing the wheel. All these recommendations and so forth seem to be reiterations of how people were living before agriculture. And then it occurred to me that our genetics have changed…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ith. As a Mormon, I find the King hearings particularly objectionable. Because Mormons of all people know what it feels like for an entire religion to be publicly demeaned for the objectionable deeds of its fringe minorities. And because our religion too was once put on trial by Congress. In 1903, Reed Smoot, a high-ranking LDS Church official, was elected to serve as Senator from the state of Utah. Government leaders, politicians, Protestant chur…