Archive | April 2015
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Have We Lost the War on Drugs?
Richard Nixon started the War on Drugs as a campaign issue to show Republicans were the “law and order” party. Have we won the war on drugs? It seems the answer is “no.” Is it time to re-assess our strategy? Despite the fact that thee United States has just 5% of the world’s population, we […]
Mormon Nazis
“We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law”, states the 12th Article of Faith. So how does the LDS Church respond when missionaries are in a country where Nazis take over the government? David Conley Nelson gives a fascinating history of Mormons in Nazi Germany […]
Dan Vogel takes on Mormonism Unvailed
Mormon scholar Dan Vogel and Signature Books have teamed up to produce a scholarly update to the first anti-Mormon book ever written, Mormonism Unvailed. The book is due to be released on April 20, and Tom Kimball was nice enough to send me a pre-release version to review.
Utah’s model of Anti-Discrimination and Religious Rights
A recent law passed in Indiana has put the state in an unusual spotlight. Proponents claim that their law uses essentially the same language as the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that passed with near unanimous support. However, one thing Indiana has done that the federal statute did not is expand the reach of the religious […]
Mormon Heretic 