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Romney was 31 when the ban on blacks in the priesthood was lifted.

More on the electionpocalypse.

More from the annals of shallow theodicy.

Big Tobacco, Bain, Russia, and Mormon Doctrine.

Speaker of Parliament trying to force a vote, defending bill as an attack on Uganda’s sovereignty and culture.

As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.

Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.

The highway that leads from the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza back to the resort-lined coast of the Yucatan Peninsula runs straight through several small towns. And there beside the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Judas Tadeo a gargantuan lawn statue of La Santa Muerte—Mexico’s patroness saint of death—looms over the rest.

A Republican, not just a Mormon, problem.

The “Vote Catholic” campaign.