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“The book for me is personal as well as political. A lot of people, myself included, were raised to believe that religion and sexual minorities were incompatible—that it really is God versus Gay. Personally, I chose the ‘God’ side for ten years, repressing my sexuality and cutting myself off from other people. Even when I finally gave up, I still thought that coming out would be the end of my religious life. In fact, it was the beginning of it.”

Public opinion is more complex than his own.

Takes up religious right attack against Obama.

“Despite a large missionary force and a persistent emphasis on growth,” Phillips and Cragun write, “Mormons are actually treading water with respect to their per capita presence in the U.S.” In fact, additional studies by Cragun and Phillips show that retention rates of young people (young men especially) raised Mormon have dropped substantially in the last decade.

Immodest yuppies move into Orthodox neighborhoods, and the influence cuts both ways.

The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all.

Trying to put the best face on prejudice!

Philadelphia DA loses an important witness.

Pastors listed on his Florida Faith Leaders Coalition say they were never contacted by the campaign.

Now that we know, what will the mayor do?