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Sister Dottie vs. The Mormon Church

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Pygmalion Theater Company, Mormon, Donnie P. Dixon, Sister Dottie Dixon, Boy Scouts, Gamechanger, Salt Lake City, Gay Rights, Passion, Dartsy Foxmoreland, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

Sister Dottie's show, a comedy with what she describes as "moments of poignancy," addresses the controversy of her stubborn refusal to accept the Mormon church's anti-gay positions.

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Jay Bybee's Rules at Home: "Be Nice. Don't Hit." Bybee's Rules for the CIA: Torture Prisoners

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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Jeremy Scahill

Bybee seems to be against corporal punishment at home, but has no problem with slamming prisoners against walls, locking people in boxes and simulating drowning.

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Could Pat Robertson Be Mormon?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Earth, Mormon, Universe, Mitt Romney, Pat Robertson, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Heaven, Newt Gingrich, Sun, The Lord, Politics News
Paul Abrams

I always thought that it was the Mormons who received planets to manage in Heaven. Could it be that Robertson is, and always has been, a closet Mormon?

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Burris, Race, Religion, And The Senate

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mormon, Burris, Impeachment, Blaggy, Representative Rush, Lord Has Ordained, Obama, Reconstruction, Race, Republican, Blagojevich, Politics, Revels, Bobby Rush, Senate Seat, Wallace, Reed Smoot, Religious Bigotry, Rush, Racism, Qualifications, Black, Faubus, Mississippi, Plantation, Reid, Illinois, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Appointment, Smoot, Garrett Davis, Roland Burris, Kentucky, Democrat, Appointee, Senate Appointment, Barack Obama, Yellow Dog, The Lord, Racial Politics, Hiram Revels, Religion, Chris Weigant, African American, Appointer, Harry Reid, Plantation Politics, Utah, Obama Senate Seat, Senate, Bull Connor, Politics News
Chris Weigant

"I am now the junior senator from the state of Illinois. . . . Friends, we're going to have to have some powerful prayer. . . . They can't deny what t...

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Gross Hypocrisy In Anti-Gay 'No Mob Veto' Ad

Wayne Besen | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lds, Glbt, Rich Cizik, Mormon, Proposition 8, Chuck Colson, No Mob Veto, William Donohue, Truth Wins Out, Gay, Gay Marriage, Latter-Day Saints, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Wayne Besen

I have no problem if these people have a cross to bear, but why must this so often be synonymous with bearing false witness?

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Friday Talking Points [55] -- "Bretton Woods II"? Not Quite.

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...

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Frank Talk on Race and Prop. 8

Wayne Besen | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jasmyne Cannick, Desmond Tutu, Civil Rights Movement, Mormon, GLBT Community, Martin Luther King Jr., Emanicipation, Gay Community, California Gay Marriage, The Bible, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Anti-Semitism, Prop 8, Homophobia, Racism, Congressional Black Caucus, Coretta Scott King, Charles Barkley, Gay Marriage, African Americans, Catholic, Politics News
Wayne Besen

In moving forward, we must build a coalition that embraces a universal set of principles. If we stupidly divide ourselves by sexual orientation or race, we can only expect a race to the bottom.

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Prop 8: Preying on California

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mormon, Holocaust, Prop 8, Constantine's Sword, California Prop 8, Catholic, Pope Benedict XVI, Same-Sex Marriage, Catholic Church, Oren Jacoby, Gay Rights, Same Sex Marriage, James Carroll, Ronald George, Separation of Church and State, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Tom Gregory

The church poking its nose into politics has too long been too pervasive and too powerful in Bush's America.

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Denver 1908: Women Participate for First Time

Kate Kelly | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Denver Convention, Women and Politics, Democratic Convention, Mormon, Nineteenth Amendment, Women Voters, Dnc, Politics News
Kate Kelly

Though the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote was not ratified until 1920, women in Colorado had earned the right to vote before this time.

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Katherine Heigl On How "Knocked Up" Is Sexist, Ratings Ploys And Mormonism

Vanity Fair | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Emmy-winning actress Katherine Heigl tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Leslie Bennetts that she thinks Knocked Up, the movie that catapulted her o...

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Romney's Aides: No Speeches About Mormonism

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney said Saturday his political advisers have warned him against giving a speech explaining his Mormon faith...

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McCain's Mom Goes After Romney

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mormons, Mormon, John McCain, Roberta McCain, John McCain's Mom, Salt Lake City, Romney, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Republicans, 2008 Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

John McCain's 95-year-old mother, in a swipe at her son's rival Mitt Romney, said Friday that Mormons were to blame for the scandal that rocked the 20...

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