Dominant discourse within the institution of religion tends to paint an image of women as docile servants of man and the lord. This is why religion, for the most part, makes me squeamish and uncomfortable. I just can’t get down with the idea that women are a bunch of damsels in distress.
Too bad Sheila [...]
This week I’ve been discussing a variety of aspects of a recent report by Maria Shriver called “A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.” One of the other segments of the NBC series on Maria Shriver’s report about women’s lives focused on the changing role of women within faith communities.
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Despite a more than visible presence during the campaign against Proposition 8 last November, the Mormon Church has denied that their financial contribution to the campaign amounted to more than $189,000. Many find this hard to believe given the Church’s overwhelming role in mobilizing against the initiative to ban gay marriage. State officials are in [...]
I had the pleasure of participating in a conference call with Catholics for Choice yesterday morning to hear about the release of a recent poll the organization conducted about Catholic voters and their opinions on health care reform and reproductive health care coverage.
923 Catholic voters, selected randomly, participated in the poll, and 84% of participants [...]
This weekend, Mormons will gather in Salt Lake City for their biannnual General Conference, where church leaders will address members in two full days of speechifying. One group, The Foundation for Reconciliation, is planning to hold a memorial service this weekend to remember all of the LGBTQ people who have committed suicide in Utah. [...]
Last week the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice published an “Open Letter from Religious Leaders to Members of Congress Supporting Inclusion of Abortion Services in Health Care Reform.” The letter is signed by over 70 leaders from a wide variety of faith organizations and churches ranging from the United Methodist Church and Lutheran Women’s Caucus [...]
I have a secret to tell you – I’m obsessed with the FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints) Church and the role that women play in this very cloistered society. I’ve read two autobiographies of women who have left the FLDS community, and their stories are very moving.
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a [...]
A professor at the University of Texas is making his case for getting married early in life. According the the Austin American-Statesman:
If Christians aren’t waiting until marriage to have sex — and statistics show they aren’t — Mark Regnerus says he’s found the perfect solution: They should just get married right after high school [...]
I never thought I’d see the day when I would defend a leader of the FLDS. Jail officials in Kingman, Arizona are force feeding polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs because he has been on prolonged fasts as he awaits trial for marrying underage girls to older male members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter [...]
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