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This week new US rules for federal contractors went into effect, forbidding workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. When the executive order was issued last…

This week, researchers at Cornell spent presumably valuable time determining the safest places to be during a zombie apocalypse. Key takeaway: not big cities. To observe that the apocalypse, in…

The World Press Photo of the Year, announced this week, featured Jon and Alex, a gay couple in St. Petersburg Russia, in a tender moment. The photo was both a reminder of and a sharp contrast to the…

On my bloggingheads program, I spoke with Joanna Brooks about her piece here, about how the LDS Church’s recent essay on polygamy as practiced by prophet Joseph Smith failed to address lingering…

News that the LDS Church has now publicly acknowledged founder Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriage to more than thirty women—one as young as fourteen years old—puts me in mind of a conversation I had…

New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic bishops’ synod on the family, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that it will be…

At least a dozen Mormons nationwide have faced or are facing discipline for criticizing Church practices or policies—even in anonymous chat rooms.

Ahh, I see. Okay.

Attempts to shut down new dating site.

And why Mormonism is a very American religion.