Jeff Flake’s (Mormon-Influenced) Anti-Trump Speeches: Prophetic or Performance?
Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our…
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Meet the New (Straight White American Male) Mormon President
On Tuesday, Russell M. Nelson, a 93-year-old retired heart surgeon, was announced as the seventeenth…
Read MoreMormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Global Religious Right: ADF Expands Again Alliance Defending Freedom, the US-based religious right legal group,…
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Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
Author Max Perry Mueller answers RD’s 10 Questions
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What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights
It’s not every day that a self-proclaimed conservative who spent more than a decade leading…
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How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”
This weekend, tens of thousands of people—primarily college age, overwhelmingly Mormon—will descend on the Sri…
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era
Their decision to participate in Trump’s inauguration epitomizes the Church’s priority of fitting within their surrounding culture, even at the expense of contrasting and competing values.
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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?
“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders–some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves–will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”
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Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications
The leaked Mormon videos show a serious regression in the denomination’s theology.
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Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap
October 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the Vatican’s “Letter to the Bishops on…
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